There are both free and paid web hosting services on the Internet, so why should you pay for a web hosting when you can get one for free? There are several advantages and disadvantages to consider when choosing between free and fee hosting companies for your web site:
• With free web sites, domain names are nearly always structured this way: www.hostcompany.com/yoursitename. This makes your URL difficult to remember, and you may lose sales as a result.
• Free sites have bandwidth restrictions. This means that after a certain amount of people in a given day visit your site, the page will no longer load and potential customers will receive a message such as “This web site has exceeded its bandwidth limit. Please try again tomorrow.” Some free sites provide sufficient bandwidth, especially if your site is light on graphics…but many do not.
• Some servers are better than others. With a free site, you run the risk of downed servers showing visitors the dreaded “Error 404: Page Not Found” message when they click over to your site. Most paid sites have precautions to deal with server failure.
• Most free sites use outside advertising on all their pages—this is how they make money. Banner ads are usually acceptable, but if you have a page with three or four popups that spring out at unsuspecting visitors, they’ll be quick to leave and never come back. Find out what type of advertising the hosting company uses before signing up for a free program.
This is not to say you absolutely should not go with a free site. Particularly when you’re first starting out, a free site may be just what you need, and you can always upgrade to a paid site. For that reason, you should look into a web hosting company that offers either free or paid sites (or just start out with a paid site).
Also, Before signing up for any web site service, find out whether they have templates and easy-to-use site building tools—or whether you have to create your pages in HTML code. If you plan to use a program like Dreamweaver or FrontPage to create your site, this won’t matter. But if you’re not, and you don’t know HTML, you need to make sure you will be able to put things on your web pages with relative ease.
Ensure to shop around and research further until you have found the right one or join the one which is recommended by others.
I would personally recommend HostGator, as I have been with these guys for quite a while and they haven’t gone wrong. They are both affordable and reliable, unlimited for Disk Storage and Bandwidth with all of their shared plans, 24/7 support, and the uptime I have had on this web hosting is simply amazing! The most important thing of all is that, they guarantee 99.9% uptime. Their “Baby” web hosting plan is $9.95 per month but with our coupon code HGC25 or MUSICA , all the coupons codes have the same value. You get a $9.94 discount regardless of which coupon you use.
Follow this link for HostGator.com. Click on ‘order now’ under the desired hosting plan. If you are hosting a new site, register your new domain. If you already have a domain name, click “I will use My Existing Domain”. Input the domain name in the next field and press ‘continue’. Choose a “billing cycle”. Type in the coupon code (I’ve used ‘musica’ when I registered so I know it works.) Press ‘calculate totals’. The total price with the discount should be shown.
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