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To Pay Or Not To Pay That Is The Question About Web Hosting

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by Lucas Heijn

There are advantages and disadvantages with everything in life. The same could be said for free or paid web hosting. The advantage of free hosting is of course that it is free. This sort of hosting such as GeoCities is great for personal and family sites.

Are free web hosting accounts really free? They may not cost you money, but why is the provider giving it to you free? It’s not out of the goodness of his heart. Free web hosting providers are in business. So how do they get paid? They do this by advertising on your site. You get the traffic to your site and they get paid from your traffic that click and buy from the ads.

Now let’s say you don’t want just a personal site, but you want to make money from your site. Now a free site becomes a hindrance instead of a help.

In setting up a commercial site you will need more resources and freedom to use your site. You see you will need MySql databases. You may want to run PHP or CGI scripts. You may produce a squeeze page and try to get your customers to focus on your product. But there are other products being advertised as well, products from your web host. There could also be an issue with looking professional and being a trusted business.

If you want to sell on the internet you will always be better off with a paid web hosting account. So then you would need to choose a hosting package that will best serve your needs. Let’s look at some of the benefits of paid web hosting.


1. Can create a number of email accounts. This means that your email address will look more professional. Your email will look like this yourname@yoursite.com that will look a lot more professional than yourname@yahoo.com or any of the free email sites. I personally won’t do business with anyone who uses a free email account as their support address; I feel it’s too risky.

2. You will be able to use PHP and CGI scripts

3. You will also have access to MySql databases

4. You will have greater resources available such as plenty of disk space.

5. You will have the use of an easy to use control panel. This will also give you greater control over your site.

These were just a few of the reasons why you need to choose a paid web hosting provider there are many more.

You can start out small and grow. Your web hosting provider should be able to increase the limits to your account painlessly. So when the package you chose first becomes too restrictive you can get the limits increased. By this time you will already be making an income.

In summary: a free web site host is good for non commercial sites such as family or personal sites. If you want to sell anything on line you will be far better of paying for your web hosting provider.

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Selecting the right web hosting service is an crucial step for your internet business. Some web hosting providers also provide other free services you would need to operate your business. One most crucial tool is the follow-up autoresponder