When it comes to starting up a blog and finding web hosting for it, many people turn to some of the free services on the web first. Getting yourself established on a free hosting service, before moving up to a paid one can save you some money – if you are willing to trade off some flexibility and features along with it.

Here are three great free blog hosting services that are aimed at advanced, moderate and new bloggers alike.

Free WordPress, for the People

WordPress might offer the best free blogging tools out there today.  Not only do they provide the fantastic WordPress blogging script for download, but they also give you WordPress.com – a free place to start your own WordPress powered website, hosted on their servers, for free. If you want to get a blog up, but you don’t want to miss out on any great features – WordPress.com is well worth checking into.

Microblogging (for free) with Tumblr

Tumblr is another great free and easy way to start a blog.  It is mainly focused on short posts, like pictures, quotes, short strings of text, links, videos and more.  You can also quickly post things from your phone, desktop and email too. There are tons of free themes, and you can do a lot with customization too.

Free Posterous Makes Making Blog Posts Simple

Posterous is a product I have not used much yet, but I have heard a lot of good things about. Here, you can make a post by simply sending in an e-mail.  If WYSIWYG editors, HTML and all that stuff just confuses you, Posterous really makes publishing pretty straight forward and easy. So if you know email, and how to send a message and send attachments, you can use Posterous to get a blog started instantly.

Know of another great free website blogging service? Let your suggestions in the comments!

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