Like domain names, choosing the right hosting company to host your website is very important. When purchasing a hosting company, you must read their reviews left by other users & other hosting analysts. There are few reliable hosting companies such as www.accuwebhosting.com, www.1and1.co.uk, www.123-registration.com etc. I have been using accuwebhosting.com for many years as their service is reliable, it's servers uptime is brilliant, supports .NET, PHP, MySQL, SQL servers, scripting, MS FrontPage extension, streaming etc. But there is a cost involved in it. Charges yearly could range from £30 to £60.
If you want to step into the online business and want to have your website to pass your message across the entire world then I think free web hosting should do the job for you. When I say free web hosting I mean no investment is necessary at all at any point. Frankly speaking there are different types of web hosting services like free web hosting service, shared web hosting, dedicated web hosting service, paid web hosting service etc. In free hosting, people will be allowed to build up their web sites and work in their own websites without any charge. As business expands through internet and there is a huge traffic to the site, paid web hosting service is much better than the free web hosting service as traffic bandwidth or web space is very important. Truly speaking, free web hosting is very useful for online business starters as they do not have to incur monthly costs.
In free web hosting, there are several limitations, one of them is the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) where some free hosting companies do not allow users to upload files in one go. While some allows the use of FTP applications such as (WS_FTP, CuteFTP etc) to connect to there server and upload many files in one go. However to send any video based file or pictures in large number, there must be requirement of the installation of the File Transmission Protocol or FTP.
How Reliable Is Free Hosting?
The free web hosting service is very popular and much beneficial to those who want to do a lot of experiments on the web sites because there will be no charge or no additional fees to use the free web hosting service. There are a quite a lot of free hosting companies. Therefore one should pay little bit attention and care to select the proper free web hosting service provider. At the same time, it can be said in little different way that those web hosting companies which want to earn revenues through the display of the commercial ads can opt for the free hosting services.Some free hosting companies display ads and expects online users to click on then to generate revenue. To them this free web hosting service is much more reliable. On the other hand, those who are beginners or very new in this internet world can choose the free web hosting service to collect the basic knowledge about the web hosting. Free web hosting is very handy to beginners to design the web sites with pictures, photos and articles. The main advantage of this free hosting service is that browsers are not required to pay anything at all. It is absolutely free.
I this article, I will compare few free no forced ad web hosting companies and give my opinion on them and select one of them to do our step by step guide in getting a free hosting.
2) x10hosting.com: http://www.x10hosting.com - The interface is good and easy to signup, but you are forced to sign up to their forum to get free hosting. Not recommended.
3) freehost10.com: http://www.freehost10.com/ - Very easy to sign up and the control panel is also good. Highly recommended
For this article, I will choose freehost10.com as its reliable and has all the functionality a newbie requires to host a site.
Step by step guide on siging up to freehost10.com
1) Go to http://www.freehost10.com and click on Sign Up Now
2) Enter your Username (this will be your website address. e.g. if you enter 'tiscaliproducts', then the site will be
http://tiscaliproducts.freehost10.com else if you enter 'xrangeglobal', then it will be http://xrangegloabl.freehost10.com)
3) Enter password and a valid email address. Freehost10 will send you an email confirmation.
4) Login to your email and click on the link to activate your account.
5) Login using your username (e.g. 'tiscaliproducts') and the password
6) Once you are login to your control panel click on file manager to upload new files. If you want to upload bulk files then I recommend you to use WS_FTP to login to the server to upload bulk files. If you are using WS_FTP to upload, then in the ftp box enter 'yourusername.freehost10.com' and put username as your username and password the same which you gave during registration
8) If you want to change the DNS settings, then use 'ns1.freehost10.com' & 'ns2.freehost10.com' as your Name servers in your domain control panel. If you have registered one of the, the login to the domain control panel and change the DNS server names.
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