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Once a customer has made up his mind to start up a web page, there are multiple factors that need to be considered. One of these critical aspects, as important as the definition of the call to actions, or the general purpose of the site, is the type of hosting service required. One simple word of advise, do not try to save a nickel by selecting free hosting. And we will explain the reasons why.
• Impossibility to host dynamic web pages. Make sure the hosting service allows you to work with at least the most important database applications, such as PHP and MySQL. In many cases, though they promise they do work with these technologies, at the end working on the databases themselves can become an excruciatingly painful process.
• Lack of possibility to work with any of the most common pre installed applications such as Word Press, Drupal or Geeklog, Joomla, Mambo Open Source, PHP-Nuke, phpWCMS, phpWebSite, Post-Nuke, TYPO or Xoops.
• Lack of possibility to expand, as the business tends to grow. Bare in mind that Free Web Hosting Services have a limit not only to storage, but to daily file exchange. So, if you want to upload multiple pages on the same day, you might not be able to do so.
• FTP is often disabled in Free Web Hosting Services, so uploading has to be done through a web interface, often painfully slow. Imagine setting up a Zen Cart page, with all the files involved through such an interface.
• No free email accounts. Free Web Hosting Services do not provide, in most cases, free email accounts, so such a simple matter as setting up an info email account is out of the question. Working with Gmail or Hotmail does not look too professional, if we might add.
• Forget about CPanel. You will have to manage with some poor emulation, with a lot less available features.
• In most Free Web Hosting Services you cannot park your own domain, so you will have to manage with a sub domain. Lethal for any serious aspirations on SEO and pagerank. |
