by blog: Cheap free web hosting from: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:38:06 +0000
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 rather easy to get lost while searching for a cheap free web hosting provider and reviewing which are the most important components to consider. The most important components are: 1. The cheap free web hosting provider must have a control over their servers. The principal part of the cheap free web hosting industry is based on reselling server space to someone else. If the provider you select don`t own the space, it could happen that when you need to move to a different provider for any reason, you depend on their will to help you. This in reality happened to me several years ago when the cheap free web hosting company with which I was cooperating was very helpful, but was sold and after that, when I desired to move a purchaser to a new cheap free web hosting, the company don`t even replied my mail. It is very complicated to move a complex site without having root access, but I had to do it. Although I lost different days and it was very unpleasant, the migration even wasn`t perfect. Nowadays I get a VPS (and root access to it) and my life is much better. If you are surely on a budget and can`t afford a VPS, go for a shared cheap free web hosting like HostGator, which is a reputable provider. 2. Don`t let your cheap free web hosting provider own your domain. Your domain is your brand on the Internet network. In addition, when you acquire links to your site you force traffic from them to your domain, not to your cheap free web hosting. If you lose your domain, all the traffic that you get from those hard earned links are lost immediately. If the cheap free web hosting company gives 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 beginning a business, even a little one, it is very essential 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 later 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 get all the traffic that should have been yours. 4. Seek a cheap free web hosting With Good Support. It takes many YEARS to completely know all the issues of the cheap free web hosting platforms. Even many Internet business experts with 10 years in business don`t completely know all the options they have in their control panel. So, if you are a newbie, you could be in big trouble almost all the time if your cheap free web hosting doesn`t give you manuals, advice or help you to fulfill technical tasks. Think of that you purchased a cheap free web hosting to make money, not to lose your time with technical things.
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