What free hosting solution do you recommend for this use case?

Question

I want to create a site that basically lets me:

1. Write tutorial articles with nice formatting.
2. Display flash videos for my viewers.

Any suggestions on a free solution? Something that would allow me to purchase a domain name and upgrade would be a plus.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can always use a free blogging service (blogger, wordpress) and use youtube to host your videos and embed them in the post.

Answer 2

Posterous has caught on in recent years as a simple but elegant solution. It's easy to get content into it and they support a large variety of formats including Flash video.

Here is the Posterous FAQ page which answers many questions you might have, including verification that they support Flash video content:

http://posterous.com/faq/

You can also purchase a domain and use that in the future, which was another part of your question. There is a page on that describes setting up custom domains on Posterous (and describes it quite well, I should say):

http://posterous.com/help/custom_domain/