http://www.000webhost.com/

How can they afford to offer free web hosting services?

Would you recommend using their service for a small informational website?

Thanks for the answers!

They do indeed NOT put any advertisements on the sites of their users... AND you get stuff you'd be hard-pressed to find on other free hosting services. 5 FTP accounts, 5 email accounts, 5 MySQL databases, full cPanel, etc.

The only revenue source that I can see is the ads on their main site. Perhaps they also offer paid hosting and other tech support services at additional cost.

I have noticed a few times when the server I'm on was down for a few minutes, ONCE during the past month. Not a bad track record for something I didn't pay for.

Here's a link to a test site I put up... this one has WordPress installed, so it's database-driven, and I've put in a plug in to play audio files via Flash... so I'm pushing the "free hosting" envelope...

http://gruumsh.890m.com

And yes, the above link has an ad, but it's one that I put on there myself, it wasn't automatically added for me.

I'm not sure about the quality they will deliver to you as a user, but from the moment you enter the web... the right side is filled with 'advertisements' and that's how they survived.