Hiya-host (http://hiya-host.com) offers both paid and free hosting.
You can get free hosting for posting on their forums (http://hiya-host.com/forum) . One post/topic is one credit. When you have enouth credits you can buy account for them. You can always upgrade your account to next free plan, or to paid plan if you don't want to post. This hosting is working for over two years now.
All plans have PHP, MySQL, Cpanel, daily backups, Fantastico and more.
| plan | Free #1 | Free #2 | Free #3 |
| credits | 15 | 35 | 70 |
| space | 100 MB | 250 MB | 700 MB |
| bandwidth | 500 MB | 1 GB | 5 GB |
| MySQL | 5 | 7 | 10 |
| emails | 5 | 7 | 10 |
| ftps | 5 | 7 | 10 |
| subdomains | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| parked domain | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| addon domain | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| plan | Paid #1 | Paid #2 | Paid #3 |
| cost per month | $1,5 | $5 | $10 |
| space | 500 MB | 2 GB | 5 GB |
| bandwidth | 10 GB | 25 GB | 50 GB |
| MySQL | 50 | 200 | 500 |
| emails | 50 | 200 | 500 |
| ftps | 50 | 200 | 500 |
| subdomains | 50 | 200 | 500 |
| parked domain | 50 | 200 | 500 |
| addon domain | 50 | 200 | 500 |
They also provide free forum hosting (but not SMF :( ).
This is example of SMF+TinyPortal: http://toxic.qrees.info (this is my clan forum, in polish language if anyone asks)