SimGames is a content specific host, which is unique. Most free hosting sites will allow you to create a topic on almost any subject but SimGames limits their subject to gaming sites. To be even more specific, they state that the site has to be an English gaming site. Along with this unique requirement, you also get the unique feature of unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth. To pay for these features, SimGames does require that you have their ads on your site.

Looking at the other features that SimGames provides, it seems they are on par with other free hosting sites. All of their plans offer PHP5, CGI & Perl 5.8, MySQL 5.X and PostgreSQL 7.4.X. You also get unlimited email, via POP3. This email also features autoresponders, forwarding, SpamAssassin, and Clam for anti-virus protection.

With 600 megs of space and six gigabytes of bandwidth per month, Freebee Hosting seems like an average free hosting company. According to their product page, they also provide FTP and email accounts for your site, although they don’t list how many of each. They also seem to be using the lastest version of Apache, PHP, and MySQL (which you manage with phpMyAdmin). They also state that they provide Zend Encoder and Ion Cube support, this is great because some free software require these encoders to run. You are allowed five parked, addon and/or sub domains with your account, which should be more than enough for most start up sites. This will allow you to have a blog.sitename.com or forum.sitename.com, which is very useful for your visitors to remember. Freebee also provides a script installer, but they don’t provide any information on what software you can install, instead they use generic information, like forums, blogs, and wikis. Tracking your site’s stats with Freebee should be simple, since there are two different tracking software provided, AwStats and Webalizer, both are common in the industry.

DreamHost Apps provide a unique free hosting feature. They will host your site, and even set it up for you. The only “issue” is that you can only choose from their list of applications. The applications that they list are all popular web applications which you can install on a site yourself for free. The list of applications that they provide are Wordpress, Drupal, MediaWiki, Zenphoto, phpBB, and various Google Apps like Google calendar and Google Docs. Keeping with the free software, they also provide a Gmail based email account.

Fh50.com has what seems to be a very decent free hosting option. You get five gigs of space, which is more then enough for a personal website. They also offer five MySQL databases. With the disk space and databases that are provided, it would be easy to create a site which has multiple web-base applications, like a blog and a forum, without having to worry about which one should be more important. You also have access to phpMyAdmin which is a popular web based database management software. Most paid web host provide phpMyAdmin to their customers for database management. Another feature which FH50 offers is FTP access to their servers. This makes uploading files very easy. Other than advertising a 99.96% uptime, which they say is better then Hostgator and GoDaddy, they offer very little other features. For a personal site, Fh50 is worth looking into.

FreeServers seems like a free server from the late 90’s that is still alive, but I don’t know how. Just looking at some of the features that is provided in their free package, I can’t see anyone using their service. To start, most free sites today will give you a gig or more space. Hard drives are now considered dirt cheap, yet FreeServers won’t even give you half a gig of space. No, they give you a whopping 50 Mb. Yes, that is correct 50 Mb, I am not forgetting a 0 in there any where. To top this, none of your files can be over 0.25 Mb or 250 Kb. The do give you enough bandwidth to transfer the entire space they allow you over 20 times, that is a gig of transfer. Oh you do get an ancient guestbook, webrings which were popular about 1997ish, and an awesome counter if you live in 1995.
FreeServers can be good if you want to learn HTML, JavaScript, XML, and/or CSS. With their free package they don’t allow PHP, Perl, CGI scripts, or any other web based programming. Other than this, FreeServes is about as useful as giving dead flowers to your Valentine.