In our view, free web hosting has its place, but not really for a commercial enterprise or serious organisation. For one thing, you never know what kind of pop-up or banner ads will be appearing on your site, and how they are likely to detract from your site.
Free hosting would not exist unless advertisers knew that they can use your valuable content to attract people away from your site to consider their commercial offers.
If you host a site with us, you can of course put affiliate advertising banners on your site in line with your overall vision and philosophy, if you wish. The difference is that YOU will be generating the advertising revenue, not some third party. YOU are in control of what is on your site for a small dollar amount.
You are not obligated to link to us in any way, even if we provide web design for you. However, you may wish to, considering you will get at least two months of free web hosting valued at $16 or $30 per customer referred. In this way, you could easily end up getting effectively free commercial web space that others are paying dollars for.
A poor quality website, a website with annoying and distracting third party pop-up ads, a website using someone else's domain name like http://www.angelpodcities.com/~mikef/Badlands/4567/ would probably do more harm than good for a company, business or organisation wishing to be taken seriously by the general public.