Should Free or Paid Hosting?
Placed in Web Hosting Guide | August 20th, 2009
Just your first website? It is time to seek some accommodation and a choice. Your Question first, probably will be whether to choose free or paid hosting service. Let’s look at some of the advantages and disadvantages of these solutions.
Free Web Hosting:
It’s free. You do not need to pay for domain names.
Your URL will be something like username.freehost.com or freehost.com / username. As I noted above, the advantage is that you do not need to pay for. But note that if you bring your site to another provider in the future, you will lose some or all traffic (there are solutions on how to resolve this problem, but this is not the point of this section).
Your provider will probably also have ads on your pages - banners usually 1 or 2 Windows sometimes pop-ups. If you want to use banner exchange on your site read carefully the terms and conditions. Some free hosts is not possible.
Free hosts usually lower bandwidth then paid allow guests and many of them do not offer futures like PHP and MySQL. Many free hosts change their terms and conditions for some time. If your host offers free hosting wihtout ads now, do not be surprised when banner or popup appears on your site in the future.
Sometimes it happens that free hosts to cancel their service and offer free accommodation will be paid. In this case, you pay only 2 choises - it or loose your website.
Paid Web Hosting:
You can use your own domain host. If you want to change web hosts in the future, simply move the domain to the new provider and do not waste your traffic.
Most paid hosts offer 24 / 7 support via e-mail or live chat, and some of them offer free telephone support. You can expect, then home free for better availability. Some paid hosts offer to guarantee availability.
Paid hosts usually offer enough disk space and bandwidth. Futures like PHP and MySQL are standard. Even if you’re a programmer, you can use many free PHP scripts from internet.
Paid hosting coast money:
Before deciding where costs paid or host, you must choose the question: How big ambitions, I must respond to my site? If you have a small personal page for friends to start up several *. HTML files will then host for free from sufficient. If you plan to run the Web site of serious business, need PHP, database and do not want ads on the site, I recommend looking for quality paid host.
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