I' ve found this hosting company which offers 3 years of FREE webhosting with no banners or anything.

* No Banners
* No Pop-Up Ads
* No Spam
* No Hidden Fees
* No Sales Calls
* No Third Party Distribution
* Strict Privacy Protection
* No credit-card needed to sign up.

Features:

Website/Connectivity:
Hosted on I/O optimized own 1&1 Linux version
500 MB web space
5,000 MB/month traffic ($.99 per GB for additional traffic)
No limits on simultaneous hits/bandwidth
Protected by firewall
Continuous backups of your website
99.9% Uptime guarantee

Website features:

Advanced live site statistics, log files, ready-to-run CGI-library, own CGI programming (Perl, Python), FrontPage 2002 extensions
Advanced Password Protection
5 FTP accounts
PHP3 & PHP4
MySQL
Proxy SSL Secure Server
Cron Jobs
SSH Secure Shell Access
Advanced Developer Tools
CRM/E-commerce:
WebElements
Newsletter Tool
One-on-one online dialogue
Turn-key web database applications
Chats
Forums

Domain names:

Register or transfer .com/.net/.org/.info for just $5.99/year
50 subdomains (e.g., shop.yourDomain.com)
Point up to 100 external domain names to 1&1

Applications:

Free template loaded online WebsiteCreator
Free full version of Fusion 7, search engine registration, ranking, optimization
Total software worth $300
1&1 Control Panel
E-mail handling:
50 POP3 e-mail accounts (50 MB each)
Catch-all e-mail addresses
Auto-responders, unlimited forwarding.
1&1 Advanced WebMail
Symantec virus scanner

Support:

1&1 Express support by e-mail

Thought this was too good to not share with all of you.

Check it out now.

It sounds too good to be true! Did you signed up? What's hidden?
Don't you HAVE to pay after the 3 years?
Thank you anyway for sharing!

I signed up for an account and I can confirm that there are absolutely no strings attached. You don't need to give them a credit card or anything. When the three years is up you can choose to roll over to a paid hosting account or you can just let it expire and your site gets deleted.

This is basically a marketing push to try and sign up as many customers as possible before Jan 14.

Regards,

Ryan

Most useful thing posted on this forum ... EVER! This is great!

I know and yes Frank I did also sign up. Figured there would be a catch, but there isn't!

Best promotion I have ever seen!

Sadly the offer is only open to US or Canadian residents.

Hi yes this is truely an amazing offer and I wondered how long it would be before it caught on. Go for it One & One are part of the fourth biggest ISP in Europe!!

Where I work at http://www.kempt.co.uk we use them for all out clients including some big record lables.

I think they are trying to break into the US/Canadian market and wow what a way to do it....

Okay, I signed up and it seems to be cooking with gas. All is true, FREE and simple.
I'll let you know about my experience with them. It's amazing. Thank you again for posting this.

Wish I could sign up but I'm British.

I tried to sign up with them but the buggers need your US/CA phone number for an automated message.

Bastards!

Franck, Brooky,

I have an idea, can't we get some of our nice forum members in the US to 'adopt' us for this reason? All that we require is a small favour and them to act as mailbox and phone listener to establich access to the domain/site so we also benefit from a 3 year free hosting.

So any US/Canadian who would like to adopt me in exchange for a small but tasteful christmas present (I thought it nice yet ironic to send some tea as they didn't like to pay tax on it some 200 years ago )

So any kind person who would do me that favour, please PM me to exchange e-mail details.

LOL