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Look Before you Leap into Free Web Hosting

By Theodore Metagastar

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.

For the photo buff you will want to consider a photo friendly site. While all the free web space hosts give you the ability to load your photos, web hosts such as flicker specialize in this area.

Many of the free web space hosts give you options such as templates and add on features. What they offer will vary depending on the host.

Do you plan to use your site to generate revenue by displaying ads? You will want to look at Blogspot for your free hosting. Adsense, one of the biggest ad based revenue resources, is owned by Google. Blogspot is owned by Google. Put two and two together, and these two aspects of the Google empire can be just what you are looking for.

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.

Depending on the type of site you want to have, you may have to think about paid hosting. For example, if you want your own domain name, like http://afreewebspace.com, , you will need to find a hosting site and purchase your domain name. Having your own host gives you more control as to the design and features of your site. One options is using a content management system, which we will talk about in the next article in this series.

One thing for sure, if you find that your free web space is not going to give you all the features you would like, you can always change to another site. Youre not out any money, just your time. You can keep your free site up and running and link to your new site.

One good thing about having a free web space is that you have storage off site for your photos and ideas. I cannot tell you how many times I have heard someone praise their online free web site for keeping their precious photos when they suffer a computer crash or otherwise lose data.

There is no doubt about it, free web space hosting is the way to go for that starter website. Either way, your voice will be heard through your words and picture, or literally though MP3 files on your site.

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