Is free web hosting good or bad..?

October 10th, 2007, 5:11 pm linuxguru Web Hosting Articles, Linux web hosting

There’s nothing wrong in free web hosting as long as you’re serious about it and the web host is reliable, scalable and provides a good service. There are many free web hosting providers without any real desire or plans to improve in the long term. And with instant and short lived web presence. So you should not get caught to this type of free web hosting services.

Because you will never know when your site will be gone for good leaving you completely helpless and losing all your hard work. And so you must choose the right free web host to host your site even if it’s free web hosting. And if you want to expand your website you can always upgrade to a paid plan with all the support and features.

Here’s a quick list of the things that you should take in to consideration when you looking to signup for a free web hosting service.

1. Make sure whether your free web host offer 24/7 support or not
2. Determine the reliability and the scalability of the chosen free web hosting service
3. Make sure whether the most important hosting features such as php, MySQL, FrontPage extensions, Fantastico deluxe included in the free plan or not
4. Availability of free advanced graphical site stats.
5. Ability to upgrade the free web hosting account into a paid web hosting account when you need to expand your site and without having to go through all the pain of changing web hosts.  
6. Make sure there are no huge ugly banner advertising in any sort
7. Make sure you free web host does not steal your traffic through annoying pop-ups and redirects
8. Determine how much space and bandwidth you need. If your planning on a blog then 50-100 Mb space is more than enough.
9. Also it would be an added advantage if your free web host offers a user-friendly hosting control panel such as cPanel
10. And finally the sever uptime of your free web host. Even though it is free that doesn’t mean the web sever should have frequent down times so make sure you free web host has a good sever uptime.

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