Thursday, April 4, 2013

The Greatest Myths About Websites

By Paul Cohan


Wanting to be more widely known in the cyber world, a lot of websites nowadays provide free web hosting services. Actually, the people who provide clients with free web hosting are those web designers who were unable to sell their products.

It can't be overlooked, however, that there are indeed those who provide free hosting genuinely, without even earning much out of the service that they offer.

If you are interested in having free hosting, you have to think hard because the free stuff might cost you a lot in the long run. Someone who subscribes to it, thinking that it is going to remain free all the time may in fact end up paying a lot for the service that was supposed to be free.

If you are interested in having free hosting, you should consider the following:

1. You need to know how much bandwidth will be given to you for free. In the case that you are not provided a definite answer, you must find another way to find out. Actually, the case is that free web hosting can only provide people with bandwidth that is quite limited, to the point that there are files that it can't support, like those that are in ZIP or MPEG. Also, there is no certainty about the time that they will take care of your website, which means that you are going to have to attend to even the not important messages and the like.

2. Know about the features that will be provided. You have to know that since free web hosting is free, many people are interested, which adds lots of pressure. One other thing that is responsible for this huge interest by a lot of people in free web hosting is that there are a lot of advertisements that are being placed so that people would get to know them.

Because of this, you can't be too sure that your account is safe, and it can be attacked by spammers. And you might also experience encountering lots of instant messages that require your approval so they can be activated.

3. Find out if it is indeed free. There are a lot of people who provide free web hosting who require that subscribers post some stuff on their website before they can proceed to singing up. But that's not all. The subscribers' posts on the websites are ranked, and then those who are among the top ranked can have the chance to be offered free hosting. The truth is that they get money out of the posts made by subscribers who were not ranked among the top.

By now, you should already understand that it can be a problem if you want to get this service without careful consideration. In order to prevent the mentioned problems from happening to you, you have to know the designers and the service carefully. You need to know if they can be trusted and if they are good at what they do and if they have experience with creating websites. If all of this is too much work for you, then you might be better off investing in a paid service.




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