This question became almost rhetorical. Today the inexpensive hosting for the small project costs about 5-6 dollars a month. Thus owners of a resource have an opportunity to use all modern technologies, including php, mysql databases and many other things. Nevertheless, thousands of sites continue to use a free hosting, despite its apparent defects and limitations. Perhaps, there are some deep waters in this question? Or we do not take into account all factors? So, yes and no.
Free hosting
A free hosting, as a rule, allows to create only the most simple sites consisting of a set of HTML-pages. Sometimes it is possible to use the built-in forums or guest books, however, very limited on the possibilities. For example, without registration of users, without possibility to moderate a forum or a guest. Any site control systems are out of question.
One more point is that for CMS functioning php and mysql are necessary, but no free hosting provides this. Besides, more often a hosting company that is giving a free hosting, uses sites of clients for advertisements allocation. And, opening a site on a free hosting, you will have to reconcile to presence of banners and pop-up windows on it. In the end of all the domain name will belong to the hosting company. The free hosting can be used for personal pages (e.g., I and my hobby), noncommercial projects, as trial platforms. Serious projects, which aim to get income, or corporate sites in most cases use a paid hosting.
Advantages of a paid hosting
A paid hosting is a possibility to use all modern technologies for a web-resource creation and support. An inexpensive hosting allows to open a site for a small or a moderate-sized firm, or a small project. Large portals use more expensive tariff schedules. But in any case each project receives qualitative services.
Even an inexpensive hosting allows to use php and mysql (from one to several databases). This means, the project owner can install a content management system (CMS) without which customization and service of a today’s web-resource is very hard. Besides, it is possible to make a qualitative forum, the guest book, to add popular scripts (for example, voting, the form of a feedback and other). All this will make the project on an inexpensive hosting much more interesting and more attractive in comparison with the limited free hosting.
An important question is a domain name. Any paid hosting, including an inexpensive hosting, allows to use a domain name of the second level ( .net, .com, .org etc.). Thus the domain name belongs to a client of the hosting company and is his/her property. Besides, to promote a site is possible only if the site is located on a paid hosting. For promoting sites on a free hosting it is required more efforts as search engine crawlers consider them less serious. By competitive queries it is almost unreal for the sites on a free hosting to be on the top of a search engine result page.
Thus, even an inexpensive hosting gives much more advantages, rather than a free hosting. The paid hosting is a metric of solidity of a site and gravity of intentions of its owners. Also in case of a paid hosting there are defined all legal issues connected with the property right for a domain name and a web resource. If you are limited in resources, an inexpensive hosting will allow you to open and to develop successfully your own project in a network. It is good that the question price is insignificant: only 5-6 dollars a month.
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Paid Or Free Web Hosting
Free Domain Names?
When choosing a domain name, there are so many things to think about. Do I need a dot com or is a dot net address OK? Do I go with a paid domain or settle a for a free one? Whether or not to pay for a domain name is ultimately up to you. It is important to know, however, that you do not have to pay for a domain name, if it is not necessary for your situation. Some reasons to go with a free domain name:
- You are just forwarding a URL, so the name is easier to remember
- You do not plan to sell the site in the future
- You do not need massive amounts of storage or e-mail addresses
- You do not know if you are ready to spend money on your site
Even if you have a free domain name, you can easily use the site for AdWords, for example. You can put the site on your business card or link it to other sites. What you cannot do is use the link for spamming or illegal content. In such an event, the free domain will be closed. The options are endless, although limited, if it is not what you are looking to do. If you pay for your domain name, you can actually run your own domain name system (DNS) and you can generate sub domains. Most importantly, you will have full license rights to the domain.
Having a domain name does not include creation of your page, just its name. Domain names do not always provide web hosting, either. Do proper research before spending money on domains, web hosting, or web creation, so you do not overpay for any such services.
Professional Website Design – Spice It Up
Professional website design is what every one wants, but prior to this one should know that a professional website design means a website which is not only profit oriented but also buyer oriented. The making of this sort of website needs appropriate ingredients to spice it up and enhance its efficiency at converting the visitor in to buyer.
Some of the key issues considered for making a successful professional website design are as follows:
Primary Consultation:
The business needs to first clarify for itself the purpose of the website. What is going to be the goal or purpose of the website? Unless this is not clarified the business will not be able to communicate to the website designer what it wants the website to do. The business should know what it wants to get sold through the website. It is possible that the business may just want the website to share information in the corporate world. The prime purpose of the website can be even social networking where like minded people form a group and exchange ideas.
Marketing of the website:
The marketing of the website can be prior as well as post the process of designing. When it is before the designing process it is about formulating the SEO strategies. One of the main issues in this is inclusion of key words or key word phrases that the prospective buyers use usually to find the products or services that the business offers. It is always better to include these when the website is being designed. The service provider that is entrusted with the work of SEO should be technically sound and aware of the latest and advanced techniques to haul up the ranking of the URL in the search engine list.
Web Design:
The design is the face of the website. Just like most of the personality depends on the face of the person, similarly the performance of the website mostly depends on the design. The design should be attractive, appealing and simple to comprehend. The visitor should not feel uncomfortable on visiting the website. A professional website makes the visitor feel comfortable, tries to create the need or identify the need of the product or service, creates demand of it and finally convinces the visitor that the product or service offered through it are the best options to serve the purpose.
Web development:
Web development follows the step of web design. This step focuses on maximizing the utility of the website. This involves marketing and increasing the traffic though different ways like writing articles, blogs and press releases. Regular updating of the website is also included in web development. The website developers that are entrusted with this development need to be technically very sound and adept at technology used for the same.
Get an experienced and expert professional website designer to get a successful website that assures return on investment.
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