Neocities alternatives

Eh, i don't know, you could use wix but wix is extremly ugly, or wordpress but it requires coding (idk if im wrong) so YEAH just hope that someone else knows something because it would be useful!

If the problem is your free hosting is laggy and unresponsive you might want to consider paid hosting of some sort.  I'm sure all these free hosting services will be trying to pack as much stuff into each server as they possibly can so it wouldn't surprise me if they were quite unresponsive.  Maybe it would be possible to find a free service which is a little better, but then maybe it's only a matter of time before the same thing happens over there, then you're faced with the hassle of moving again.

Regarding Wordpress, I can't say I've used it, but from what I understand it started out ok but these days it's trying to do everything and not doing a good job.  There's a world of plug-ins for it and people find that this works with that, but that needs this version of this other thing, having this other thing breaks that and so on.

If you're looking for something to make posting content easy you might want to look into Ghost.  If you're writing your own HTML and enjoying doing that, well done, maybe just keep doing that (but on better hosting).

"Unlike many other web hosts, we don't skimp on infrastructure. Neocities
operates our own caching CDN in 11 datacenters all over the world to
quickly serve your site. We also force 100% strong SSL on all sites, and
have full support for HTTP/2. Because of our commitment to quality, we
routinely out-perform the pricey cloud services on reliability, speed
and uptime. Whether it’s your personal home page or a busy professional
site, your site loads fast."

I wonder, are you making changes to your website on Neocites then refreshing your browser hoping to see the changes to your site?  Then making more changes and repeating?

If so it might be better to do that on a local computer at home.  Once you're happy you've made a solid version of something upload it to Neocities.

While NeoCities does have issues, this sounds like it might be more of a CSS issue than a NeoCities issue. As long as you've uploaded the image and linked it properly in the CSS, it should be fine. Background image downloads happen on the browser end, not the server end.

Can you share your site's URL along with the background image you want to use? I can take a look and see if there's anything I can do to help.

and 

https://geocities.ws/

They are both Free to use!

i recommend github pages, in difference from neocities you can use the supporter plan features for free

neocities is ok but i graduated from it to host on my vps. also, the last time i checked you can get an .tk domain for free

i also recommend ichi.city, it looks nostalgic

Try mmm.page

mmm.page is a site builder and not a site hosting

there is also nekoweb.org, it's kinda like neocities but without all the limits