This service is also ad free so will provide a great service with out any forced ads. However, the free hosting plan is set to “expire” after a year to avoid hosting dead sites but can be “renewed” for another year at no cost at all. See here for details on their free plan.

Main Features:
1. Free with no ads
2. Data storage: 250 MB
3. Monthly bandwidth: 5 GB
4. 99.9% Up time
More details here

Here’s a note from FreeHostia about their free hosting:

Our fully featured Free plan is perfect for hosting a personal web site or a small community portal or forum. Using our Elefante installer you can install the necessary scripts easily with just a few clicks. There are no forced ads. Free hosting accounts are on the same servers as the paid ones, so the Free plan gives you the chance to fully test our services to better decide whether to pay for it or not in the future and could be used as a life-time fully featured free trial for our paid services.
Here is the full list of features you will receive with your absolutely FREE web hosting package.

In conclusion, this host is an excellent free host overall and definitely worth using for a stable quality free host with out the limitations of forced ads. I would rate it 9/10 for its excellent service and up time. Hope it helps guys.

All data including your link details have been transferred with no changes and categories have the same urls as they did before. Here are the three biggest differences between the new and old directory:

1. New Design
The new CO.NR Directory features a new design using validated css to ensure that it renders well on all browsers. The new design is also simpler and adjustments have been made to ensure that that all text is easy to read and navigation between pages is simple.

2. Link Detail Pages
All links which have been submitted to the directory including those submitted before the change now have a unique link detail page customised for every submission. For example here is the link detail page of Egad Community: http://www.directory.co.nr/detail/link-192.html.

3. Easier Submission
This new submission form is now simpler and easier to use, customized for co.nr websites. In the old script some submissions caused errors but that has all been fixed. The new image verification code at the end of the form is now easy to read with no distortion. Here is the new submission form: http://www.directory.co.nr/submit.php

Cheers guys and I hope you like the improvements made and feel free to comment below if you would like to say something about the new directory or the changes made.

Blogger
Blogger is a simple yet powerful blog creation tool which is now owned by Google. It allows users to create customizable blogs with great looking designs and helpful tools to edit and perfect their blogs using an advanced and friendly interface. Blogger uses Google accounts so if you already have one you can get started straight away. If your new to blogging I recommend this service as a simple alternative to wordpress. Create a blog easily now at http://www.blogger.com/start.

Wordpress.com
Wordpress.com is a popular blog host which lets users easily create blogs using powerful wordpress script. Creating a blog in wordpress is quick and has countless great features such as ready to use themes, spell-check, previews, autosave, an integrated stats system, powerful and automatic spam protection and importing tools from other blogging platforms. I personally recommend Wordpress.com and use the script on this blog. See its features in more detail here: http://wordpress.com/features/.

I hope this helps and feel free to comment with your own thoughts and suggestions on free blog hosting. Have a blog hosted at either of those hosts? Tell us what you think below or email me at admin@directory.co.nr.

The two hosts I have mentioned below are the best ones I have come across and have been around for a while. Both hosts are completely free with no ads of any kind:

50Webs Free Hosting:
For small personal websites that do not need much space, 50Webs is the best free hosting provider available. They offer an easy to use control panel with features such as ftp and pop3 email support. The free hosting plan allows you to store up to 60mg with unlimited bandwidth.
Here is the url: http://www.50webs.com/free_plan.html

Logical-Host:
Logical-Host provides much more robust hosting however they require you to post once to sign up. Posts start at 15 posts (one time) for 1gb storage and 5gb bandwidth. This host provides support for ftp, pop email accounts, server site scripting, fantastico and everything you would expect from a paid host.

Overview:
In conclusion, 50Webs is perfect for small personal websites where as Logical-Host is more suited to larger websites that need more features. Both web hosts are completely free with no ads.

Cheers guys,
CO.NR Directory

How to get listed:
Getting listed in Google, Yahoo and Msn is relatively easy as all you need to do is have incoming links to your website from other websites. When search engines crawl the Internet, they will see your link and add your website to their list of websites to display.

To manually add your website to Google, you can visit their add url link here: http://www.google.com/addurl/, your website will not be added instantly but it will let Google know to check out your website.

Search engines are constantly crawling the CO.NR Directory so submitting your co.nr site to our directory is an easy way to start the process of finding links.

How long will it take?
Getting listed by search engine can take anything from a few days to a few months depending on where search engines see your link and you will find that Msn will index websites faster then Google. On average, websites submitted to our directory are listed in under a week.

Posting on the CO.NR Forums is another great way to get indexed and to receive traffic, forums like these also allow you to include a link in your post signature.

I hope this article helps,
CO.NR Directory

CO.NR Search is a search engine for all co.nr web sites that are indexed by Google. The search engine uses Google technology so it will operate in the same way that Google does. Simply type what you would like to search for in the box and the search engine will display a list of relevant co.nr web sites.

Feel free to comment if you have any feedback or suggestions.

Cheers,
CO.NR Directory