Saturday, 24 August 2013

Stuff You Need To Learn About Free Hosting

By John Ubro


Initial investment is necessary for setting up a new company. However, there are people who think that they can start their site free-of-cost with a free web-hosting service. You can launch a website with such services, but one can't expect good performance from the service provider. After launching your website with a free hosting service, you might experience some serious difficulties. These problems include low web space, no FTPs, insufficient documentation, and unnecessary adverts on your website from the free web-hosting company.

The 3 most critical things that you need to look at before choosing any hosting service are space, data transfer rate, and add-ons. The add-ons include things like additional domain names, File Transfer Protocol (FTP) accounts, Database Management Systems (DBMS) etc. Generally free web hosting companies, do NOT offer any add-ons and the quantity of disk space and bandwidth offered is also limited. This may lead to an poor quality site, sluggish download speeds, extremely low CTRs for starters of the difficulties which might arise.

There are two main types of websites: static sites consisting of HTML pages and dynamic websites powered by sophisticated programming languages like PHP. Dynamic sites are usually not supported by free web-hosting services. Even if you find a free service provider that supports such sites, you should avoid it. Apart from this, many free hosts don't allow you to use your own domain with the account so you have to use a domain name that is cheap and unprofessional.

In a free hosting environment countless sites are present on a single server and share the same IP address (unless you're ready to pay several dollars each month for a dedicated IP). This has many disadvantages. For starters, if one of the sites get infected, the malware can spread to other websites on the web server. Second of all if Google bans the IP for SEO malpractice all the sites lose rankings.

Free web hosting services are only good for experimenters and complete newcomers who have little or nothing to lose from poor website performance. In spite of all the shortcomings mentioned above, it's FREE. Restrictions only become important when you're aiming for something big. For all other purposes, free web hosting is a splendid tool to jump start your internet marketing journey.




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