The Best Free Hosting Services for WordPress
Altervista
Altervista is certainly one of the best free hosting services. The service has been active since 2001 and is one of the most successful in the Italian market. It offers support for PHP and MySQL databases with a phpMyAdmin panel, HTTPS, and email services. You can connect via FTP and have 1 GB of disk space with a bandwidth of 30 GB per month.
Altervista is owned by Mondadori Editore. All basic services are free and can be extended through paid services. The downside is that you cannot insert direct advertising into your site, such as Google AdSense, but must use Altervista's advertising circuit. For those who want to start a new project without investing any money, it is definitely a service to recommend.
Netsons
Netsons is another well-known and appreciated free platform by most users. It offers auto-installing software and various applications and perfectly supports WordPress. It has a cPanel control panel that allows you to configure all aspects of your free hosting. You can register third-level domains like mionome.netsons.org, but you won't be able to move it outside of the third level. If you want to purchase a second-level domain, like mionome.it, based on another hosting service, you'll have to transfer the data manually.
On the technical side, it offers 1 GB of FTP space, unlimited bandwidth, PHP + MySQL with phpMyAdmin, HTTPS, and email, everything you need to launch your online project based on the WordPress platform.
Blogging Platforms
A valid alternative if you want to use WordPress without spending money, but don't need special customizations, FTP access, and more, especially if you love writing but are not tech-savvy, could be to open a site on wordpress.com. While in the previously mentioned services, the hosting provides the space, but you have to create, install, manage, and update the platform, there are alternative services that give you space and functionality without you having to take care of the technical part.
In the case of wordpress.com, you don't have to worry about server, file, configuration, and update issues because the platform itself takes care of everything. It's enough to register your account to proceed with creating your site/blog and inserting content.