Considerations when Choosing Free Web Hosting
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Thinking about starting your own website? The good news is that free web hosting is available at many sites. There are many things to consider before you make this decision and investing your time and energy in building your site.
Why do you want a website? Is it for connecting with your friends, and making new friends? Social networking is a big industry these days, with many sites such as Facebook and MySpace. You can easily invite and connect with your people.
Having an online photo album is another good reason to start a website. There are many photo posting resources available these days, such as Flicker.
Many of the free web space hosts give you options such as templates and add on features. What they offer will vary depending on the host.
There is yet another level to free web hosting that many of these free sites do not allow, and that is the display of ads. Sure, you can talk about something you offer, and provide links to other sites, but many have it in their sign up that commercial sites are not allowed. Some do allow Google Adsense, such as the Blogspot site now owned by Google.
There are pros and cons to having your website on a free web space. One of the disadvantages is that you do not get to have your own domain name. The name of your site will always include the hosting service as a part of the domain. One example is a blogspot site such as http://atravel-adventure.blogspot.com. . This site has their own unique part of the domain, but the primary domain is blogspot.
If you are set on having your own domain name, like http://afreewebspace.com, you will have more latitude as far as the type of site you will have, such as an html site or a content management system, or CMS site, which we will discuss in the next article in this series. You will have costs involved for a hosting service.
Check out some of the free web space hosting sites to compare services available. Even if you outgrow your free web space hosting over time you can always link it to a new site, such as your own domain, and flow the traffic you have built to the new location.
One good thing about having a free web space is that you have storage off site for your photos and ideas. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard someone praise their online free web site for keeping their precious photos when they suffer a computer crash or otherwise lose data.
Having a free web space is easy, and the best part is that it is free! Have a little fun with the idea, and check out some of the hosting spaces we have discussed in this article. Make your presence known!
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