000webhost.com

This is a free web hosting service which provides loads of webhost features. E.g. you have access to mysql and you can create your own database for free.

If you don't have a domain name yet, you can register a free domain name through them and get it hosted for free.

The only catch is they stealthily inject a small script into your freely hosted website, you can see this little piece of code by clicking on view -> source button on the menu bar under the internet explorer window once your website is ready. It usually resides on the bottom of the html source code, these alien codes are very obvious if you coded your own website. This is rather a nuisance to some people rather than something serious, because it's not a trojan or a virus, it's just for the 000webhost to collect your visitors' statistics. Apart from that, the host is reasonably reliable and has no data or bandwidth limit. The website flow also looks quite neat and smart.

You don't have to pay a penny ever if you don't want to. But if you love fantastico, you will need to upgrade. Despite that you can still load fantastico programs through ftp to the server, you just won't have the luxury of one click installation, albeit the server won't reject no matter it's 64MB or what! Back in the old days when I just started and when I was cheap, I used them to to host roundcube email client and phpBB, worked just as fine.

As long as they are not taking the server off the rack to fix or upgrade, your website is safe as a paid host.

All being said, a good point to start from.

Site up time: No contract no guarantee, but it's free