Free Web Hosting
Free web hosting is often all you need to host your website. And the
price is definately right. Free hosting services are great for personal
webpages, and small non-commercial sites. Many profesional webmasters use
free web hosting to reduce their costs when hosting many sites.
Many free webhosts will give you a sub-directory for your site. For
example, your websites address may look like -
"http://some-free-host.com/~yoursite/". A better option, provided by some free
web hosting services, is to have your own sub-domain, in which case, your
websites address would look like "http://yoursite.some-free-host.com". A few
free web hosts will even host your own domain if you have one.
In order to pay their bills, most free web hosting services require that
you show their ads on your site. These ads generally include banners and often
popup ads.
Free web hosting is generaly limited in a number of ways. Most free
hosts do not allow server side scripting such as CGI, or php. Also, the amount
of storage space and data transer (referred to as bandwidth) allowed is
normally limited.
THINGS TO LOOK FOR IN A FREE WEB HOST
When looking at the free web hosting options you should first think
about what you might need, and then find a site that provides those options.
The following is a list of options you should consider:
- Storage space - more is better. Look for at least 20 Megs.
- Bandwidth - again, more is better. Look for at least 500
Megs/month.
- Scripting - even if you don't need it now, you should look for a site
that allows CGI scripting.
- Free subdomains - subdomains are shorter and normally easier to
remember.
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