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Originally Posted by FredOnline
I would recommend Google Sites to set up a simple web site
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Google Sites is indeed a good tool for many situations, but it definitely won't let you take full control of your website structure, of all files and use the unaltered HTML pages you create in relation to those files/structures. In other words, it's pretty much useless for static/flat file hosting. Other than that, it's pretty cool.
As of the last time I checked, it only allows you to add snippets of HTML to their existing templates, as well as adding larger chunks of HTML to an "HTML box" -- both of which are incredibly limited. Technically you can upload HTML files but those will actually be presented as download links, which is probably not what you intend to do with them. :-) You can't fully control the output, it's essentially filtered and more or less sandboxed -- it's basically embedded within whatever template you've selected. So your website visitor will get the template plus your HTML code and stuff you may not have ever wanted them to get.
Those limitations might be just fine for someone of course, so definitely consider it if you don't mind that! Those limitations may seem problematic, but for some people they are advantages since Google Sites can do a whole bunch of other cool things... those templates have some nice features.
Comparatively, FM's simple hosting is utterly different in the kinds of limitations that it has -- but it for sure doesn't limit you as to what static files you can host, and it doesn't alter/filter/encapsulate/embed your files in any way. FM's service will serve exactly the files you post to the website visitor. There are no templates... there are no sandboxed HTML boxes... there is no Google-embedded stuff (or FM-embedded stuff) on the page AT ALL (although to be 100% accurate, FM does have a few nice OPTIONS that you can enable like a simple photo gallery and file upload feature... but those are ultra simple and are *disabled* by default). So it's basically just a static file hosting service, nothing more, nothing less. You create the HTML or other files, and FM will serve them up as-is, exactly as you created them.