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.