Look Before you Leap into Free Web Hosting
There are many options available to us these days for free web hosting. Before you leap into a free hosting site there are things to consider. Building and promoting a website takes time, and you can lose many good features by choosing the wrong host.
Social networking is a popular type of website these days, and there are many free web space possibilities like Facebook and Myspace. These sites are intended to connect with your friends, and build new friendships. You have some flexibility as to who can view your website as well.
Are you looking for good hosting for your photo you might want to check out Flicker, though the social networking sites will serve you as well in displaying many photos.
One consideration when choosing a free web space is the options available. There will likely be limits as to the templates and backgrounds available, as well as add on features.
There is yet another level to free web hosting that many of these free sites do not allow, and that is the display of ads. Sure, you can talk about something you offer, and provide links to other sites, but many have it in their sign up that commercial sites are not allowed. Some do allow Google Adsense, such as the Blogspot site now owned by Google.
One of the disadvantages of a free web space is the name of your website. Though you will have a little creative latitude on a portion of the name, it will always contain your free web space domain name as well. One example of this is http://atravel-adventure.blogspot.com. The host domain is blogspot, with the subdomain atravel-adventure.
If you are set on having your own domain name, like http://afreewebspace.com, you will have more latitude as far as the type of site you will have, such as an html site or a content management system, or CMS site, which we will discuss in the next article in this series. You will have costs involved for a hosting service.
If you find that the free web space hosting you have is not going to serve you for your new ideas and creative endeavors, you can always create your next site elsewhere and put links to your new site on the free hosting site. This way your people can follow you, and the search engines will find you much easier.
One of the advantages of having a free web space is storage of your photo and ideas. Having an offsite storage place for your memories can save a lot of heartache in the event of a computer crash.
Having a free web space is easy, and the best part is that it is free! Have a little fun with the idea, and check out some of the hosting spaces we have discussed in this article. Make your presence known!
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