With the web hosting scenario currently prevailing, one can say that, free web hosting is among the most misunderstood concepts on the web of today. Tremendous popularity of free web hosting plans is due to emergence of new web site into the idea without really measuring the future results. Several people cannot see the dim side of the free web hosting plan but a new webmaster definitely can groom him/her after penetrating through such conditions.
What happens when Coke promote Pepsi on their website!!!? Some people may find the above question comical, but in fact it is a root problem related to free web hosting plans. Clients are compelled to advertise different things which are not related to them, this is the way several companies make it an affordable `deal’. It can be through anyway, it can be through pop-ups, pop-under, headline ads, implanted ad sense etc. The user should host advertisement on his/her website in any of the case because it is the source of revenue for the concern hosting company providing free hosting services, whether the user like it or not, it doesn’t matter. Such situations are not only irritating but also capable of destroying the look of user’s page; several times the denotation of the ad and its entrance and exit is not in the user’s hand, they are simply induced into one’s site and the user can do nothing but to suffer it.
Traffic chaos
The last line in web hosting is no doubt, bandwidth (data transfer) costs money and if the user develop a strategy for free service it is quite certain that the bandwidth enjoyed by the user will be limited. Several times when the user attempt to access a web site which is located on a free server is shown with the message given next: “The user had crossed the supplied bandwidth limit, please seek next month”. There is nothing to amaze if a webmaster gets frustrate onto it. For an instance, a user build an attractive page, promoted it in the market, grabbed a plenty of audience, and then losing that audience quite easily because his/her page does not permitting further hits for the month.
SEO woes
In the beginning, it can cause a lump of irritation to the user but later provides the lesson about how search engines operates and the way search engines handle name resolution. In approximately complete cases free hosting plans restrict the user in pointing a domain name (www.mysite.com) to an actual page. Rather, the user is compelled to adopt a substitute (concept) termed as URL redirection. The function of URL is to permit a webmaster to identify a site that the URL is supposed to point to. Thus if a user types in www.illustration.com and one has configured it to redirect to www.freehost/users/mysite.html it will end up on that page. Such sorts of things are not a big issue until and unless the user start attempting to reach to the condition where his/her website get indexed in the search engines. Then the user put forward his/her site (www.illustrations.com) in the front of few directories and then inquire from them about some of the good link partners but then a shake of surprises arises, when the user come to know that he/she has not been included in the lists of SE’s. Inspite of the fact that the user has 100 solid back links pointing towards www.illustrations.com, still every one knows what is going on. The root cause is that www.illustrations.com possesses no matter in it, but merely redirects the user to actual page at any of the reputed site. It is a fact that SE’s never index a page containing zero data in it, rather consider it as an effort to hoodwink their algorithm, which results in proscription of the user’s domain name. Then the only option left will be is to forget the domain name and take a U-turn towards free hosting address, which is not a preferable work in real sense.
The spirit of free web hosting is not bad enough as shown above. As there are several positives aspects on which one can rely upon. Like for e.g. there are some free hosting providers which do not compel the user for advertising, using limited bandwidth and also allow pointed domains. Only daunting task is to search them out. Thus, an ideal hosting without hurdles can be enjoyed by loosening slightly the pocket. The user can enjoy an outstanding hosting by paying $5.95 per month, it asks for little money but the efforts will be WORTH it.
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What is the best free web hosting website?I already own a domain name, and I am looking for a good place to host the actual website without paying anything for it.
Also I'm looking for people to recommend websites based on personal experience, not just googleing "free web hosting"
Thanks.
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
Thanks Lisa! Great Video. Give a man a fish he eats for a day, teach someone to fish and they eat for a life time. You’re terrific!
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
I used webstarts for a year and they are pretty good. I left only because their system couldn’t handle script from one of my advertisers.
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
What do you think of the web host: Web Starts?
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
It is good video and I agree what you saying about having your own host and domain. But to some people $3-$6 is bit of money to pay every month without getting any back for long time. Great tip. Thank you for sharing with us. I learned a lot watching your video and reading your site, blog.
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
Lisa,
Another great video!
I really enjoyed this video. But I have to disagree a bit. Some web hosts have been stable for me. Business hosting would not be very smart though. Why wouldn’t you pay more for stability and more features. And beside hosting and domain prices are reasonable. Oh yeah I have a personal web site can I just keep that on free? I am in High School and have no money or credit card
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
A pay web host could also increase their prices overnight and you would be in the same position. Pay ridiculous fees or loss you web page.
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
thanks man , I got it and it worked like a charm, pretty cool that they let you upload anything you want and build websites!
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
i love your admiration and inspriration wish you was my wife
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
i have been using wiijii host for my band and it’s been working great, got 1gb of space and unmetered bandwidth , no ads or anything. I like it , maybe you would too
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
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September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
I would go first to Microsoft Corp's Office LIve Small Business
Then Weebly
Then SynthaSite
All 3 are wonderful. Enter a user name, a password, and some other details. Then visit your domain-name registrar and tweak your settings so that your Web address points to the service you've chosen. The hosting service will give you instructions on how to do this.
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
What you are looking for in available with webs.com
Webs.com is free and very easy to use.
I am using it and found very good.
But the only limitation with free version is in the url
it will be like http://www.yoursitename.webs.com
Just take one care when you are signing up for webs.com
While you are selecting your website template there is a option which says "Use Advanced (HTML) Mode". Click this link instead of selecting the templates offered by webs.com
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
Come on now – talk about being too good to be true. If you get a good bit of traffic to your site – you could "earn" free hosting – here's how.
Go to http://www.DependableHost.net – join their affiliate program. Then – get a hosting account (starts at around $4/month) then use the profits from your affiliate commission to pay for the hosting. The commissions are recurring as long as the account is active – so you'll keep getting commission off of each account that you refer to them.
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
If you are looking for a free for life web host, you can try http://www.icure.co.in. You get lifetime free hosting, no ads, frontpage support, a SUB-DOMAIN, PHP, MySQL, and other webmaster tools for no cost at all.
If u want some more webspace, bandwidth, phpBB etc. you can upgrade to their plans. They are not the cheapest of hosts but quite reliable on their claims i.e. 99.8% uptime, just very excellent customer support, industry standard security and no ads for providing free web-space.
Apart from that you can try x10hosting.com, wetpaint.com etc but most would place ads for providing free-space. For blogging word-press, blogger are the best.
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
Well, if you take my suggestion. That is practically not possible. The reason behind this is that there are many physical costs to cover up. If the cost isnt mentioned, then you might not have a way to go well about it.
You can have a look at the following links –
http://www.bodhost.com/ – US-based VPS and Dedicated Servers
http://www.bodhost.co.uk/ – UK-based VPS and Dedicated Servers
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
September 30th, 2009 on 6:32 am
I was using FileKeeper.Org for business purposes, before I had given a corporate FTP space. It is free. Uploading through FTP, but downloading through the Web Interface. At the time I used the service, it was very fast and reliable.