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Avoid Free Web Hosting – Here are the Reasons

Saturday, November 14th, 2009

A company that wants to remain respectable will do well to stay away from free web hosting services. This hosting is only suitable for individual websites of a small size. Paying for respectability is a small price to pay. Below we list a couple of reasons why you shouldn’t use free web hosting companies.

First of all, your business will not have its own domain name. If you want people to be able to find your web site easily, then having a personal domain name is vitally important.

Next, you will find that you do not have much in terms of resources to play around with. Free web hosting will not allow you to upload large image or video files to your site.

Next on the list is to do with all the adverts the host places on your site. At the end of the day, they have to make their money as well.

If you require any web tools for developing your site, you won’t find them on a free web hosting platform. Because of this, the brand image you are trying to portray will suffer.

The lack of proper technical support is also a major issue when it comes to free web hosts. This is not an issue with paid services where response is almost always immediate.

Another bad thing will be your businesses total lack of credibility on the online community . Not only that, but the free web hosts can basically do as they wish, even suspending your site on the whim of a moment. They are not bound by any ethics.

If your site isn’t pulling in the visitors, the free web host may drop your site. the reason for this is that they need people to click on their advertisers ads so that they can make money.

 

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A Newbies Guide to Web Hosting

Friday, November 13th, 2009

A website is only visible once it has gone online. This is where a web hosting company comes in as they will more or less put your site on their server which is connected to the net which opens it up to the world. These computers that are used by the various web hosts are similar to the ones you and I have at home. Servers are the names of these computers.

All web hosting services make use of all the latest technology, letting visitors easily reach your site via the internet. The web hosts servers can hold literally hundreds and hundreds of websites and the owners of these sites are, for want of a better word, renting space from them. Large multinational companies usually have their own servers, but this is an expensive undertaking.

Most web hosts offer a wide range of hosting plans that a user can choose from. Most of the features on offer are able to be customised to suit the individual needs of users. In the more basic plans, a user will find that the bandwidth they are allocated is relatively small. Bandwidth can basically be described as all the data that flows between the hosts server and a visitors computer while they are accessing your website. The more bandwidth a site can utilise, the more stable it ultimately becomes as it can support a larger amount of traffic, or visitors. Exceeding the bandwidth limit will either see your site taken down by the host, or you will have to pay extra charges.

This is also a reason to be wary of web hosts that claim unlimited bandwidth for their users. Quite a lot of the time this is just an underhand tactic to entice you to their own specific hosting plan or package. At the end of the day, there isn’t really such a thing as unlimited in the world of web hosts, so keep an eye on your account.

 

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Unlimited Bandwidth Fallacy

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Current offers from web hosting services today abound with the statements that unlimited disk space or unlimited bandwidth are on offer. It seems like this is an option that has to be fulfilled today before a web host can offer its services. People should know though, that there really isn’t such a thing as unlimited anything.

These statements coming out of the web hosts are only a type of marketing ploy though. Becaus eunlimited doesn’t really exist in the sense that we would like it to, we can’t use it. But the ploy makes you choose this web host over that, or vice versa. And it is the fear that they are going to run out of these resources that makes them purchase these services.

At the end of the day, you would have to have one huge website with literally tens of thousands of pages to even reach your disk space limit, and would also need thousands of visitors daily to get near a five or ten gigabyte monthly bandwidth limit.

And this is something that all web hosting services are all aware off. Nevertheless, they still offer the services because all the other web hosting services are offering it. And thinking about it, this doesn’t cost the web hosts a dime. Those customers that do find themselves reaching the limits of their resources face the very real risk of being suspended or even having their accounts terminated. It seems a parody.

If you are seriously thinking about paying to join a host that does indeed stipulate unlimited resources in their plans, you would do well to take heed of the following. First of all, always read the terms and conditions and scrutinize them carefully. Bad terms and conditions invariably mean a bad web hosting service. If you are tempted to sign up because of the marketing ploy, then remember others have as well. This may mean overloaded servers in the long run. Three, try and search out web hosting services that do not offer any unlimited resources. At the end of the day, you can ask them beforehand if there hosting plans are upgradeable.

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