Web Hosting

Web hosting is one of the hardest businesses to be successful in because there are so many hosts on the net. Web hosting differs in what it offers depending on price. Obvioulsy the more expensive the hosting, the better.

Free Web Hosting

Free hosting will usually only offer minimal features and sometimes be ad supported. http://www.free-webhosts.com offers a directory of free web hosts and also has a power search to find hosts that only meet your requirements. Sometimes you can find realy good free hosting sites that offer what seems like a lot for free but there is one thing that all free web hosts have in common, reliability. No free hosting site is going to be as reliable as paid hosting; they never are.

Some times free hosting sites are just made for somebody to sell and make money from the sale. When this happens the quality of the hosting site is horrible. It has happened before with many free hosts and most of them are shut down now. What happens is, one person makes a hosting site with unbeleivable amounts of disk space and bandwith , like 20 GIGS of space, and a forum for support. The he makes a couple of kids, with nothing better to do, moderators to and help people with tech support for free. So the guy who made the site knows SEO and, over the next month or so, builds up the site and gets loads of traffic while the kids handle everything on the forum for free. Now, the person who made the site has been making money from two sources this entire time. He has an affiliate program that links to a real hosting site like hostican and gets $60 in commission per upgraded hosting off of this. The next source of revenue he has is something like adsense in the control panel of the users’ sites and on the support forums. Having ads in these places generates enough revenue to not have ads on the users actual sites, so he can have no ads as another incentive for people to join the free hosting.

So after getting a large amount of customers to the site the creator sells the site for about $3,000. Now right about the time the creator sells the site some key things are about to happen. The main thing is that the server that all the free sites are hosted on is about to run out of space because the creator gave everybody 20 GIGS of space on a server that only has 250 GIGS. So now the new owner that just purchased this site for a large chunk of change is about to have a lot of problems and a lot of unhappy customers, while the seller walks away with a hefty profit from the revenue of the site when he owned it and the money from the sale of the site. Also not only does the new owner have to deal with all these problems, but he will also loose many customers in the process which are the main source of revenue from ads and affiliate commissions.

Starting a Serious Site

The point of the free web hosting section was to give you the low down on free hosting and all the headaches that come with it. Also it was to show you to be careful when purchasing a free hosting site or start your own from scratch. If you are starting a serious site and need quality hosting and don’t feel like bouncing from one free host to another then the best solution is to get paid hosting from a site like http://www.4qh.info that is very little cost and offers just enough for a small site to start out. Then if and when your site becomes more popular, upgrade to a more expensive paid hosting package with more space and more features. The main thing is to stay away from free hosting sites if you are starting a serious site and don’t want to deal with all the problems that hosting on a free site will have.

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