Did you start out free?

How many people started out with free web hosting? Has anyone done this in the beginning stages of an online business? I don't think it is such a good idea but perhaps someone has had success.

do you mean free hosting with a paid domain?

As you already said, it's not a good idea i think...invest those few €uros...

i started of free and after a year i started an hosting company for a while then i shut it down and now working with my friend's hosting company

I started off free, using Tripod.

i used tripod, i remember knowing nothing about websites lol

i started out free and still am my hosts provides everything i need at the moment

Well i started out with free also, but then i moved on up slowly and began to realize what great things you can do with the internet, i am in the early stages of creating my own business because i did research and took a couple of business classes at my school, my first free host was geocities, back then i though i was the "man" but then i saw other peoples sites and how nice they are desgined and i began to buy some domains and get some hosting and try this thing out, and so far i have geocities to thank for my somewhat sucess now

I started out on pauid hosting, but now i have started a new website on a free server, and hoppefully when it starts gaining some traffic i will move to a paid server!

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I started as free hosting and I still have a few low traffic sites hosted on a free hosting provider. I even have a PR4 site hosted for free...