Website Hosting First Time Round

Choosing website hosting isn’t as easy as you might think and especially when you are new to the Internet. I’ve made a few hosting mistakes in my time and mistakes that set my business back through my own unwise choices. Lets have a look at my mistakes and what I would recommend for a newcomer to hosting.

Free Hosting

Many newcomers believe that free hosting is the solution, it could be at least for a while but then if you are successful free hosting can become a problem. When I set up my first website in January 2001 I chose a free host but had some awful adverts from the host as headers on my site. As the site attracted visitors and earnings I was able to upgrade the account to paid, use my own domain name and lose the overpowering advertising. That was from http://20m.com and you can read my old review here. They are still around but I have no idea if they are as good now as they was back then. That was 16 years ago and I believe now that I was very lucky to have had a good hosting experience first time round.



If you search you can find other free hosting companies but usually they want to plaster their advertising across your site. A few don’t but freebies are usually used to attract future paying customers. I’ve only experienced 20m so cannot comment further on any of the other free hosts apart from saying that free hosts and the smaller companies may not be as up to date as larger companies. That matters when you try to use software or scripts that require the most up to date hosting.



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