Free Web Hosting - A Viable Option?

Free web hosting is something that many people choose when first starting out online for one reason and one reason only - the price. But is free web page hosting worth it, in either the short or long term?

The first companies offering free hosting were able to do so by using advertising revenues to offset their costs and usually, to turn free hosting into a profitable venture for themselves.

Add to this the fact that free web hosting users were usually stuck with a subdomain name and found it almost impossible to achieve any kind of worthwhile results in the search engines results pages, and free web page hosting started to look far less appealing.

Many free web hosting services also left a lot to be desired in the reliability stakes with sites often being offline and unavailable to internet users. Several free hosting providers now offer PHP and MySQL and some pretty decent storage and bandwidth numbers. If you are just looking to host a non commercial website, or perhaps just a place to host marketing squeeze pages and the like, free hosting might well be a viable choice. - by Maurice Snell

Choosing Between Free Web Hosting No Ads And Paid

The same could be said for free or paid web site hosting. The advantage of free hosting is of course that it is free.

This sort of hosting such as GeoCities is great for personal and family sites.

Why do these providers give you a free site? Your free site will attract visitors. Your free web site provider will place ads on your site. This brings income for your free web site provider.

Now a free site becomes a hindrance instead of a help.

A free site will make your product look cheap. Some of the benefits of a paid site are:

• Can create a number of email accounts. Your email will look like this yourname@yoursite.com That will look a lot more professional than yourname@yahoo.com or any of the free email sites.
• You will be able to use PHP and CGI scripts
• You will also have access to MySql databases
• You will have a much larger amount of disk space available to you.
• You will have the use of an easy to use control panel. This will also give you great control over your site.

There are many reasons to choose a paid web host provider. In summary: a free web site host is good for non commercial sites such as family or personal sites. - by Lucas Heijn

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