Great free web-hosting site?
 

(did not know where to post this therefore place it in GD) Was just wondering if anybody new of-a great free (ad-free also) hosting site. I'm gonna be doing website design next term and wouldn't mind having my very own free site to-play with and find out more about PHP and MySQL. I already know my reasonable share of CSS and HTML and know a PHP and javascript (writing to text documents etc etc). My tafe has presented me with a of my own but I don't have use of MySQL and I've attempted X10Hosting.com but it's gradual as all hell and 80% of the time the site doesn't actually weight. I used to be with X10Hosting about 24 months before and it was good, however now it only s*cks until you spend. So all I must say I need is one to understand and experiment with and one with great uptime.