Free hosting vs Paid hosting.

Icetray · 02-26-2007, 09:10 AM

Good point. It is a risk. That's why I try to make back up's as regular as possible. I also try to go with free hosts that provide paid plans as well. Either way, it's what you get for being cheap :-D

Rohitpatel · 02-27-2007, 03:20 AM

Yes you are right. Many free hosting site have good and cheap plans of hosting and you can offered them. You can also earn those money from Google ads and other Ad networks.

Icetray · 02-27-2007, 01:24 PM

Yeah, no set up costs and you still generate revenue. What's the actually issue if they aren't as efficient as other hosts? :-)

parise · 07-29-2007, 03:38 AM

There seems to be about an equal amount of people for each type. Interesting. I guess the upshot is, if you have a small site, go for free.

tater03 · 07-29-2007, 04:07 PM

O.k it seems like it would be better to go with a paid hosting site. And after reading all the posts I would tend to agree. There is alot of great info in this topic but I have a question. Is there a place where there is a list of hosting sites and reviews you can look at?

Taggart · 08-09-2007, 11:14 AM

I agree with one of the posters above about tending not to take email from free accounts as seriously as paid accounts.

On the other hand, I have bookmarked free websites as favourites before without noticing.

For someone who has built a free site and wants to switch to a paid site, how well does automatic redirecting work. I've seen that while I was surfing before.

Hurgoll · 08-09-2007, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Paula62

Thsi discussion has raised a question for me: If a site starts on a free service and changes hosts later, how would it lose traffic and ratings merely from a host switch? Or are you referring to free sites that do not operate off an individual domain name?

There are free host services that let you use your own registered domain, and others that give you a subdomain. Is the traffic issue related to both?

Again I am lost,

Why pay to host a site you are selling? Why pay a monthly fee when in 2 weeks it might be gone?

Hurgoll

zeusukr · 11-04-2007, 11:54 AM

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