by blog: Cheap free web hosting from: Sun, 04 May 2008 18:38:06 +0100
If you open up Google and do a search on the `cheap free web hosting`, more than many million web pages come up as a result. With that much competition, is it fully easy to get lost while searching for a cheap free web hosting provider and reviewing which are the most important elements to take into account. The most important elements are: 1. The cheap free web hosting provider must control their servers. Most of the cheap free web hosting industry is based on reselling server space to someone else. If the company you select don`t own the space, it could happen that when you demand to go to another company for any reason, you depend on their will to help you. This actually happened to me several years ago when the cheap free web hosting provider with which I was cooperating was very advantageous, but was sold and after that, when I desired to move a client to a new cheap free web hosting, the provider don`t even replied my mail. It is very complicated to move a huge web-site without having root access, but I had to do it. Although I lost several days and it was very awful, the migration even wasn`t perfect. Nowadays I have a VPS (and root access to it) and my life is good. If you are really on a budget and can`t afford a VPS, go for a shared cheap free web hosting as HostGator, which is a reputable company. 2. Don`t let your cheap free web hosting company own your domain. Your domain is your brand on the global net. Moreover, when you acquire links to your web site you compel traffic from them to your domain, not to your cheap free web hosting. If you lose your domain, all the traffic that you have from those hard earned links are lost immediately. If the cheap free web hosting provider suggests you a domain name for free, make sure that the email of the administrative contact is an email that you control and you have a control panel where you can see the ownership of your domain. 3. Avoid Free cheap free web hosting Of Any Kind. Free cheap free web hosting is lovely for your resume or to tell the history of your dog, but when you are starting a business, even a little one, it is very significant to have your own domain because if your page is hosted at someone`s else domain, when you acquire links to your page, you become dependant on your cheap free web hosting company because if in future you choose to have your own domain, all the links you got will still be pointing to the cheap free web hosting company which will force all the traffic that should have been yours. 4. Seek a cheap free web hosting With Good Support. It takes many YEARS to entirely comprehend all the issues of the cheap free web hosting platforms. Even many Internet network business professionals with 10 years in business don`t entirely comprehend all the options they have in their control panel. So, if you are a newbie, you could be in big trouble just about all the time if your cheap free web hosting doesn`t give you manuals, advice or help you to fulfill technical tasks. Remember that you acquired a cheap free web hosting to make money, not to lose your time with technical things.
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