Date: 2006-03-25
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printFree Hosting Myths and Facts
Myth #1: It's not a good host if it's free.
Fact #1: Sometimes we are paying for something that could be found for free. For example in web hosting directory. It's not hard at all to find free decent hosting. All you need is to find a good host directory that possesses an excellent search tool, so we won't have much trouble browsing across the hosts. Personally, I recommend this directory: www.free-phphosts.com
Myth #2: Free Web hosts don't support any kind of coding besides HTML!
Fact #2: If you do a research enough, you definitely can find free hosts that offer, domain/subdomain hosting, PHP Hosting, MySQL, CGI/Perl, .Net, Cpanel, H-sphear and almost anything a paid host offers.
So how can they provide service for free? You asked. Well, usually the free web hosts incorporate lots of ads accross their free website or may also sell paid hosting. The ads could be a gold pot for the free hosting alone. Some free web hosting users eventually sign with paid hosting after seeing the quality of the web hosting company.
Some free web hosting company asks you to be an active member in their forums to keeps your free account alive. Those are the top free web hosting companies, where everythings come at no cost (except your participation in their forum): no ads, subdomains, addon and parked domains, PHP, MySQL, cPanel, Fantastico, etc.
Of course there are other free web hosting category as well. Those with instant free account activation usually offer less resources i.e. no PHP script or mysql database allowed, no addon/parked domains and no awstat etc. Of course, if you do not need those advance items , you should stick to these free web host.
Myth #3: All free web hosts are either slow or clutter your website with ads.
Fact #3: The large number of free webhost companies are usually act this way, but you should aim for smaller hosts, which brings us to myth #4.
Myth #4: Small free web hosts don't provide good support.
Fact #4: 90% of the free hosts have a forum. The forums usually are very active, so it's almost sure that you'll get great and speedy support for your free webhost.
Myth #5: Those free webhosts offer very limited webspace ammount.
Fact #5: Believe me, you wouldn't need so much webpace. In fact, 100 Mb of webspace with 2000 MB of Bandwidth will sustain your free hosting website through out the month.
I hope I have now cleared some of your doubts about free webhosting, I'm sure you will likely to find a perfect host now. :)
Jerry Mazda manages host directories and recommends Free PHP Hosting as one of the best.
