Question

I need to have free hosting to test my ASP.NET application using .NET 3.5 framework. Which hosting provider can offer me the free hosting for that?

Answer 1

Have you found any? So far http://www.aspspider.com/ is the only one i found that allowed you to sign up right away and upload files to your site mins after registration. Its also limit, IIRC you may have it for 60 days however apparently you can recreate the site and not need to sign up again nor pay money.

Answer 2

While not totally free, there is a low-cost alternative.

You can re-purpose an old machine as a Windows Home Server box. Among all the other features you get with WHS, you have a webserver and an address. Part of the installation process is to register a 'site name' with homeserver.com. Once you've cleared/registered "nameofyoursite", you have an address forever. You can get to your site by entering "https://nameofyoursite.homeserver.com" into a browser.

This way, you have control over your server, you don't need to pay for a static IP address, you get all the ASP.NET features and could even use SQL Server for a backend database to say nothing of all the other WHS benefits (automatic backups, drive pooling, remote access, etc).

Except for the cost of the machine and the OS, you're free after that. If you don't have any spare PCs lying around, HP sells some pretty nice pre-configured servers and sometimes have their "model before the current one" on sale for less than $300.

Answer 3

It isn't free, but Microsoft Azure is pretty cheap and should meet your needs. You can also use the community tech preview and then it is free.

Answer 4

You can also host your web site yourself.

You will need to open port 80 on your home router.

If your IP address is static, you can register your domain name, then point DNS servers at the domain name hoster to your own IP address. If your IP address is dynamic, you can use DynDNS or No-IP services to keep track of that.

Pros: free (mostly), suitable for a small site Cons: a bit clumsy with dinamic IP, but you want this for free, correct?

Or you can try this:

http://somee.com/FreePackage.aspx