Paid Website Hosting vs. Free Website Hosting
Executive summary about free website hosting by Chris Robertson
Free Web Hosting Explained
Instead of having your own domain name, you’ll likely receive limited space at the host’s domain name. Your website name will appear after the “/” of their full domain name. Another aspect are very limited web space, advertisements on your web page that can draw away your visitors, limited features, and limited programming capabilities. You will not be able to considerably expand your site with such limited space. Also, you will have to conform to the host’s programming requirements, which may be limited to only one style of programming. Your features and capabilities for web design will likely be very limited.
Paid Web Hosting Explained
The hosting fee varies with different providers and is usually determined by how much web space and the types of hosting services you’ll need for your business web site.
Hosting services that are popular with businesses include self-managed dedicated hosting, managed hosting, co-location hosting, PHP hosting, MySQL hosting, SSL encryption, and so forth. Which services you choose will depend on the functionality and purpose of your website and may affect your hosting costs.
Domain name registration is sometimes included with packages, but if not, you’ll be required to register your own domain name and pay a yearly fee or a discounted multi-year fee.
The benefits of paid hosting are obvious. You can secure as much space as you want. You can choose your own domain name. You can develop your own content pages in the design that suits your needs along with shopping carts, user login sections, photos, articles, and other functions. You’re more likely to have more “up time” with a paid server. Free servers are notorious for shutting down frequently. Some services guarantee a certain amount of up time, such as “guaranteed 99% server up time.”
In summary, free web hosting providers have their place for personal websites or even as limited ad sites for small local businesses. But for a full-time, operational Web business, a paid hosting provider is the way to go.
Free Web Page Hosting - Quick Info for Halfwits and Tightwads
Executive summary about free website hosting by Robert Darrell
The main attraction behind free web site hosting packages was a non-techie administration panel which provided you with easy site builder wizards, ready made guestbooks, and easy-install feedback forms and web counters. This was basically ‘free web hosting for dummies’. You didn’t have to know squat about hosting a website or even about web design for that matter. All you needed to sign up for a free site was a name and an email address and, presto, you were up and running.
Nowadays, free web page hosting can provide you with a wide array of bells and whistles that typically accompany packages provided by any affordable business web hosting service. This means that if you’re an advanced webmaster, you can now have free web hosting with PHP-MySQL support, FTP accounts, shopping cart scripts, domain name hosting, no ads and, most importantly, script installers like Fantastico or Elefante.
The latter is where it’s really at if you’re not an advanced webmaster and/or you have no web design skills. Using a script installer, you can have a classy Wordpress blog up and running in a matter of minutes. And you won’t have to know the first thing about HTML, CSS, PHP or any other nerdlinger web coding language. There is free easy-to-install Wordpress templates at your disposal. Many of them are really quite beautiful and are suitable to front all kinds of web site ideas.
You could actually register yourself a domain name (less than $10 a year). Then you can have your domain name hosted by a free web host and launch your classy Wordpress blog and no one will know you did it all on the cheap because you won’t have one of those free host subdomain URLs or any cheesy banner ads blowing your cover.
Executive summary about free website hosting by Chris Robertson
Free Web Hosting Explained
Instead of having your own domain name, you’ll likely receive limited space at the host’s domain name. Your website name will appear after the “/” of their full domain name. Another aspect are very limited web space, advertisements on your web page that can draw away your visitors, limited features, and limited programming capabilities. You will not be able to considerably expand your site with such limited space. Also, you will have to conform to the host’s programming requirements, which may be limited to only one style of programming. Your features and capabilities for web design will likely be very limited.
Paid Web Hosting Explained
The hosting fee varies with different providers and is usually determined by how much web space and the types of hosting services you’ll need for your business web site.
Hosting services that are popular with businesses include self-managed dedicated hosting, managed hosting, co-location hosting, PHP hosting, MySQL hosting, SSL encryption, and so forth. Which services you choose will depend on the functionality and purpose of your website and may affect your hosting costs.
Domain name registration is sometimes included with packages, but if not, you’ll be required to register your own domain name and pay a yearly fee or a discounted multi-year fee.
The benefits of paid hosting are obvious. You can secure as much space as you want. You can choose your own domain name. You can develop your own content pages in the design that suits your needs along with shopping carts, user login sections, photos, articles, and other functions. You’re more likely to have more “up time” with a paid server. Free servers are notorious for shutting down frequently. Some services guarantee a certain amount of up time, such as “guaranteed 99% server up time.”
In summary, free web hosting providers have their place for personal websites or even as limited ad sites for small local businesses. But for a full-time, operational Web business, a paid hosting provider is the way to go.
Free Web Page Hosting - Quick Info for Halfwits and Tightwads
Executive summary about free website hosting by Robert Darrell
The main attraction behind free web site hosting packages was a non-techie administration panel which provided you with easy site builder wizards, ready made guestbooks, and easy-install feedback forms and web counters. This was basically ‘free web hosting for dummies’. You didn’t have to know squat about hosting a website or even about web design for that matter. All you needed to sign up for a free site was a name and an email address and, presto, you were up and running.
Nowadays, free web page hosting can provide you with a wide array of bells and whistles that typically accompany packages provided by any affordable business web hosting service. This means that if you’re an advanced webmaster, you can now have free web hosting with PHP-MySQL support, FTP accounts, shopping cart scripts, domain name hosting, no ads and, most importantly, script installers like Fantastico or Elefante.
The latter is where it’s really at if you’re not an advanced webmaster and/or you have no web design skills. Using a script installer, you can have a classy Wordpress blog up and running in a matter of minutes. And you won’t have to know the first thing about HTML, CSS, PHP or any other nerdlinger web coding language. There is free easy-to-install Wordpress templates at your disposal. Many of them are really quite beautiful and are suitable to front all kinds of web site ideas.
You could actually register yourself a domain name (less than $10 a year). Then you can have your domain name hosted by a free web host and launch your classy Wordpress blog and no one will know you did it all on the cheap because you won’t have one of those free host subdomain URLs or any cheesy banner ads blowing your cover.
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