While there is no doubt that the word ‘free’ is capable of creating more than just a smile, it’s in fact know to make the average veteran far more suspicious than he would be during a normally dubious situation. Free web hosting is to also be treated with the same regard; as there are plenty of issues associated with free web hosting. In that case, why is free web hosting still so popular? Like mentioned before never underestimate the potential of the word ‘free’ – when it comes to free web hosting; it is capable of balancing all the negative issues associated with it. So here are a few tips to consider while you are in that grey area of making a choice:
To start with, understand how free web hosting services work… they work by forcing you to place ads on your website. The revenue from these ads goes to the free web hosting company. While chances are highly unlikely that you’ll have any say on where, when, how much and what type of ads are going to be posted – there is a significant possibility that these ads can even make the browsing experience a struggle.
Free web hosting companies also subject the free website to a lot of restrictions like – reduced bandwidth and web space, lack of advanced features like FTP, email addresses etc. There can even be restrictions on the appearance of you website as there are limitations on the executable programming scripts. So when you decide to choose a free web hosting service do consider what all are the tradeoffs and whether it will suit your needs.
In that case what is the real utility of a free web hosting server? A free web hosting server can be used for non – business related activities, to learn web site programming etc.
Since free web hosting services are highly unreliable – do create backups of your web content. This is especially important because there are plenty of cases where the free websites along with their free webhosting services have disappeared for good.
When choosing a free web hosting service – try to go for the free web hosting services that have been around for a while or more importantly for the ones that place a lot of ads on your website. While the latter argument meant seem skeptical. It can be justified in these grey realms as the ability to generate an income can result in slightly higher reliability rates.
It would be a good idea to register your domain and use URL forwarding features as this enables you to establish your web presence; even if it involves a small fee and most importantly a certain level of protection from complete random disappearance.
Most importantly if you are really keen on going for a free web hosting service – the best place to look for them would be in directories that are dedicated to list free web hosting services. However don’t be surprised if you find a lot of new listings and an even bigger list of non functional websites when you happen to visit the directory after a few days later.
Author Resource:
Dhruv Patel is a customer of DreamHost. He has created site to help new DreamHost customers and to promote DreamHost by giving DreamHost coupon. You can check his website at http://ahappycustomer.dreamhosters.com
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