Web Hosting Paid or Free?
© Illa Maden November 2006
When considering whether to get web hosting that is paid or free, maybe a better question to ask yourself is how serious you are about building a real business.
Profitable home based businesses on the internet can actually be built at bargain prices compared with the cost of building a business offline.
Some questions to ponder in regard to free web hosting are:
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1. How much storage space does free hosting offer? 2. What is the bandwidth? 3 Can you upgrade from free to paid web hosting if your site grows? |
4. What happens when you need help? 5. Do they include PHP? 6. Do they put advertisements or banners on your site? 7. How many mailboxes? |
These are just a few of the questions I would have about free web hosting.
Web hosting that's paid can be reasonably priced and offers many benefits
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1. No banners or advertisements that are annoying at THE least, and may conflict with website content. 2. PHP 3. Paid web hosting offers service when a problem arises. |
4. MySQL databases 5. Bandwidth and storage that is more than adequate. 6. CGI 7. Auto-responders, mailboxes, tracking and more |
Web hosting paid vs web hosting free
Before you accept free web hosting, do a little research. Go to several paid web hosting sites and review the benefits they offer. Uptime is a benefit I didn't address, but is an important consideration. You can look at my favorite paid web hosting, which offers many extra benefits and is very responsive, and do a search on the web and compare plans and features.
Moving a website is not a fun activity. If your website grows will you have to find a paid web hosting service and move your website? If you are serious about a business this is something to think about. Consider the benefits of paid web hosting over free web hosting and make an informed decision.
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