Building Ecommerce Web Sites: Where Do I Start?
Building a web site isn't something that is really cut and dry. There's a huge variety of products and services that can either help you get your web site where you want it or simply confuse you. It's also important that you make the right choices...
Create A Free Web Page Online Today!
So you're interested in getting your own free website, excellent!
Funny enough, this is how I started out on the internet and look what has happened! Anyway, a free website is good because you can use it for many things. These include
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Does a real person answer your web host’s phone?
Have you ever had a pressing emergency situation and then called the only person able to save your neck, only to be have your call answered by an answering machine? Frustrating is not quite the word to use to describe the situation. But the truth...
How to select a WEB HOST - Web Hosting Review
Here are some things you should look for when comparing basic web hosts: 1)How much storage space does the web host provide? 2)How much does each additional meg of storage space cost? 3)How much bandwidth is allowed each month? 4)How much...
Website hosting in the UK
Once you have a website you then need to think about hosting your site. There are many hosting companies offering different fees, therefore it can be quite difficult in finding the best deal. There are many avenues to explore to find this best...
Free or paid web hosting?
Just finished your first website? So it's the time to look for some hosting and make a choise. Your first qustion probably will be whether to choose free or paid hosting service. Let's have a look at some advantages and disadvantages of these solutions.
Free web hosting: (+) It's for free. You don't need to pay for domain name. (-) Your URL will be something like http://username.freehost.com or http://freehost.com/username. As I noticed above, the advantage is that you don't need to pay for domain. But note that if you move your website to another provider in the future you can loose some or all your traffic (there are some solutions how to solve this problem but it is not the point of this article). (-) Your provider will probably include ads to your pages - usually 1 or 2 banners, sometimes popup windows. If you plan to use banner exchange on your site read carefully their Terms and conditions. Some free hosts doesn't allow it. (-) Free hosts usually allow lower bandwith then paid hosts and a lot of them don't offer futures like PHP and MySQL. (-) A lot of free hosts change their Terms and conditions during some time. If your free host offers hosting wihtout ads now, don't be surprised when banner or popup appears on your site in the future. (-) Sometimes happens that free hosts cancel their free service and longer offer paid hosting
only. In this case you have only 2 choises - pay them or loose your website.
Paid web hosting: (+) You can host your own domain. If you decide to change the web hosting provider in the future, you easily transfer the domain to the new provider and don't loose your traffic. (+) Most paid hosts offer 24/7 support via email or live chat and some of them provide toll-free phone support. (+) You can expect better uptime then on free host. Some paid hosts offer uptime guarantee. (+) Paid hosts usually offer enough disk space and bandwith. Futures like PHP and MySQL are standard. Even if you are not programmer you can download plenty of free PHP scripts from internet. (-) Paid hosting coast money :o)
Before you make the decision if choose free or paid host you should answer this question: How big ambitions do I have with my website? If you are starting small personal page for your friends consist of a few *.html files then free host will be sufficient. In case you plan to run serious business website, need PHP, database and don't want ads on the site I recommend to look for quality paid host.
About the Author
Petr Sejba runs Web Hosting Reviews (http://webhostingtoplist.com), a list of quality low coast hosting companies. For more information contact him at info*at*webhostingtoplist*dot*com.