Free Web Hosting - Advantages vs. Disadvantages

A free hosting service is good for beginners and simple personal home pages. If you are new in websites world, you can learn a lot by hosting a free website, understand the basics of web development and web design.

Free Web Hosting Advantages

• The big advantage of free web hosting is the zero price. There are some free web providers that will not put ads and banners on your website.

Free Web Hosting Disadvantages

• Ads - Most free web providers impose ads/banners on your website.


• Disk Space - Usually you will have about 250-300mb of disk space only.


• Account Expiration - Some free web hosts will disable your account after default expiration time.


• File Size Limitation - Usually you cannot upload/store file bigger than a half megabyte.


• Technical Support - From my bad experience, sometimes I didn't receive any answer. So, if you have a problem ...


• Reliability - Before you are going to open a free web host account, try to get feedback from anyone about this free provider. And my recommendation, have a backup of your website.

*These are only the main disadvantages, for my opinion.

Learn more about free web hosting and paid web hosting.

Enjoy,
Alex Webs.

Keep Domain Name and Hosting Plan Separated

Some web hosting companies offer a free domain name registration for new users (includes into web host plan price). People usually make use of that feature since it enables them to save some money while keeping both the domain name and the hosting plan with the same company.

But! If you are unhappy with your web host's service and want to go to another web host, you will need to get them to release your name to the new web host. Some web hosts make troubles with releasing a domain name.

My recommendation is to keep all your domain names with a reliable registrar like GoDaddy.com while having an another company for web hosting.

See Also:

• Save Money with Web Hosting Coupons.


• How to Register a Domain Name.


• How to Choose a Good Web Host.

Enjoy,
Alex Webs.

How to Find a Reliable Web Host

The website hosting business is very competitive these days with hundreds of thousands of reliable hosting companies out there but what company is best for your needs and that will provide you with a reliable hosting service from customer support to the reliability of there web servers.

The following is what is the most important aspects you need to consider when choosing a web hosting provider:

1. Customer Service
   Customer service is a very important aspect of any host if not the most important you will need to check there reliability by:
   • Seeing if they have a 24 hour contact phone number.
   • FAQ section on there website to help you with the most common questions such as what are name servers?
   • Ticket support to answer any non urgent questions that you might have.
   • Live support isn’t essential but it is useful for quick help.
2. Servers
   The serer are the most important part of a web host since without them they can be a host.
   • The processor speed (CPU) e.g. Intel Pentium 2.8ghz (anything over 1.5ghz is sufficient).
   • Memory (RAM) at least 512mb of ram.
   • Space this will all depend on your website needs if you are just starting at least 500mb is enough.
   • Bandwidth this will all depend on how many visitors your planning to visit your site in any given month. I would say that 5000mb will be more than sufficient for any small website.
   • Operating system – Linux is the better and cheaper option for any website and is said to be better than windows in a web server environment. But if you are required to use any windows scripts such as .asp you will need to use the windows server.
3. Customer Testimonials
   See if other customers have voted for the web host on popular hosting directories or have made comments on the services that are offered by the host on there website.
   These are the most important aspects that people look for in finding a web hosting provider these days and don’t be afraid to pay a bit more than other companies as this usually reflects the service they offer but also don be fooled.

GOOD LUCK

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About The Author
Marty Virve is the owner of many websites and is experienced in website development. Martin's newest website in his portfolio is his Search Engine Directory called SearchWIZ.org - webmasters add your link free.

JAlbum Free Hosting

As you know, JAlbum is all about publishing personalized photo albums.
Recently JAlbum created a new service - myjalbum.net hosting. That's a very simple way to get your albums online.

Steps to create photo albums online:

1. Sign up - Register an account at jalbum.net. (You don’t need to sign up if you already are registered in the JAlbum forum.)


2. Make album - Download the JAlbum software. Just drag and drop images and image folders onto JAlbum and press “Make album”.


3. Publish - Use your username and password to publish to: yourname.myjalbum.net

View JAlbum Free Hosting Example.

Let’s get your photo albums online!


Enjoy,
Create Online Photo Album

Create Photo Album in Three Easy Steps

How can I create a photo album on my website ?

We will explain how to create photo album on your own website. If you already have a website, skip to third section of this article.

• At the beginning you have to create a website. The first step in creating a website is registering a domain name. We recommend to register a domain name at www.GoDaddy.com.
  
• Next step is choosing hosting space for your website. The are a lot of hosting companies, we recommend to buy hosting from big and trusted companies like PowWeb.com or Hostgator.com.
  * If you purchase domain name and hosting in different companies, you will need to change domain name pointer to the hosting company. For example, if you purchase domain name from www.GoDaddy.com you will need to do steps described in this article.
  
• The last step is to download and install on your computer a photo album generator like JAlbum or ornj.net. Create photo album on separate folder following program instructions. Upload photo album folder to your website with ftp client.
  

See Also:

• Introduction to Domain Name Registration


• Introduction to Paid Web Hosting


• Create Photo Album on Your Website

For questions you can contact us: info@MyWebsiteAdviser.com or post your questions on www.MyWebsiteAdviser.com forum

Enjoy,
Alex Webs

Create Website in Three Easy Steps

How can I create a website in a few hours ?

We will explain how to create a website with free templates (without any knowledge in web development).

• The first step in creating a website is registering a domain name. We recommend to register domain name at www.GoDaddy.com.
  
• Next step is choosing hosting space for your website. The are a lot of hosting companies, we recommend to buy hosting from big and trusted companies like PowWeb.com or Hostgator.com.
  * If you purchase domain name and hosting in different companies, you will need to change domain name pointer to the hosting company. For example, if you purchase domain name from www.GoDaddy.com you will need to do steps described in this article.
  
• The last step is to download a template, modify it like you want it and upload to your website. Some useful website templates websites: freecsstemplates.org and freewebsitetemplates.com.

All these steps will be explained in details in next posts.

For questions you can contact us: info@MyWebsiteAdviser.com

Enjoy,
Create Website & Register Domain.

PowWeb hosting with most popular free open-source programs

With PowWeb hosting you can easy install most popular open-source programs. If you want to set up your own blog, shopping cart, photo gallery, discussion board, guestbook, chat or content management system, you're just a few clicks away.

It's really quick and simple.

Enjoy,
Alex Webs

Save money with GoDaddy Coupons

Do you want to buy a domain name ?
Purchase hosting for your site or any other GoDaddy service ?

You can save money with GoDaddy coupons.

Search "GoDaddy coupons" at Google search, copy & paste relevant coupon code to GoDaddy "Shopping Cart" screen -> "promo or source code" and click apply.

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Enjoy,
Alex Webs