I am about to launch my website for my business and was wondering if anybody out there knows of any company that does FREE web hosting or does web hosting for a reasonable rate?

If you currently are a web subscriber, your current provider offers a homepage into which you can FTP your current webpage(s) and use the homepage hosting services. In a sense, you are hosting a commercial webpage via the homepage link and incurring merely the monthly access of, say, AOL.com, etc. Nevertheless, should you want to link your current domain name to the homepage URL, you'll need to use a third-party redirection service, i.e., mydomain.com [which is free] or simply direct your domain name registry, i.e., godaddy.com to forward your domain name [with masking] to the link the domain name to your homepage URL. It's that simple.

Good luck!

Does your company have any money? You should budget your hosting as though it is a business critical function. Free is usually bad when it comes to business decisions. Most free things can not be customized, or edited or made search engine friendly, etc. Try to use a national list and choose a company that is closer to you geographically if possible.

www.godaddy.com is really the best for hosting and domain service. If you looking to get your website listed on the search engines and improve ranking take a look at http://www.seogodfather.com

you can go under setting up your personal website and find a reasonable price. I don't know of any free ones.