Your Questions About Web Hosting Services
Paul asks…
Does using a free web hosting service effect the amount of traffic you get to your site?
Does using a free web hosting service effect the amount of traffic you get to your site?
admin answers:
Technically it will not, unless of course your free web hosting has a limitation of bandwidth per month. If that is the case, it will be block from access.
If practice it will as normally people don’t take it seriously when it come to free web hosting. This is especially true if you used it to sell things. Just image you go to a site at freewebhostingabcdef.com/mysitehere
Do you think you will buy it from there ?
Other than the human factor mention above, I don’t see any relation between traffic and web hosting. However if you take SEO into part of the factor, it might have some effect as well.
If the free site is like: freewebhostingabcdef.com/mysitehere
, then SEO is most likely be affected.
If it is like mysitehere.freewebhostingabcdef.com
, then should be fine
James asks…
Where can I get free web hosting services?
admin answers:
Visit https://www.freewebs.com
Thomas asks…
What are some easy Web site building/hosting services for a simple matter (a moving sale)?
I have never done any kind of programming but want to build a site that shows pictures of everything I want to sell. Any ideas for me? Thanks!
admin answers:
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And you thought YOU were a geek?!??!
Didn’t you just move last year? I’ll give you 50 cents a piece for your sweater-vests and a dime each for your left socks. I have plenty of right ones.
Betty asks…
Registrar for domain name + web hosting services?
Trying to decide between getting my domain name registered separately from my hosting site versus just doing it all at the web hosting service. It shouldn’t matter if I am sticking to the reputable big companies right?
I was going to get my domain name (the .net and .com versions) registered on namecheap, 1and1 (other suggestions welcome) separately from host (probably hostgator or justhost because I liked that they had a lot of video tutorials).
I do need several email accounts for my employees with webmail access. An easy to use site builder is also good, but I will use Joomla in the future.
Also a good price on whois privacy and renewals (registrar and hosting).
What do you recommend?
admin answers:
It’s true that sticking with reputable companies makes the situation better but that’s definitely not the best situation if you have got the choice. You should have your domain names registered from a separate domain registrar for 2 reasons:
1. If at any time in the future you decide to leave your web host (for whatever reason) and move to a new one, then you’ll probably end up transferring each of your domain names to your new web host as well. Whereas if you had them with a separate registrar, you’d just have to move your files to a new web host and make your domain name point to your new host and things would be fine. Domain management is in itself doesn’t involve a lot of problems so there is very little chance that you’d want to transfer your domain names if you registered them separately.
2. Usually (in every case I have seen at least) domains sold by web hosts cost a lot more. For e.g. It is very common to come across a price like $10 per year + domain privacy would usually be separate and you’d end up paying around $10 for that as well. So totally you might pay $20 or above if you went with web hosts.
For domain registrars, I’d say netfirms.com is the best. They give you the domain name plus privacy (free) for $8 the first year and $12 (privacy remains free) for subsequent renewals. That’s the cheapest I’ve seen and they are reputed + give very good service (experience). I’d say namecheap would come second in my opinion. They are pretty good too.
Several email accounts would not be a problem with most hosts. While a sitebuilder might be an easy way to put your site up fast (because of all the templates etc), using a content management system like Joomla would be better any idea because of all the flexibility that you’d have with Joomla (not to mention the scores of plugins you have for it). Again, Joomla would be supported by most, if not all hosts.
For the hosting I’d say hostgator fares much much better than justhost (but that’s my opinion). They give you unlimited emails, a site builder and of course you could install Joomla on their hosting packages. No spammy upsells, great service and a customer support that listens to what you have to say. You are right, they’ve got tons of video tutorials that handles most of the situations you (or your employees could need assistance with). What’s more important is Hostgator has different types of hosting like shared, VPS and dedicated hosting, so in future if by any chance you want to be able to upgrade your hosting, its much simpler. JH only has shared hosting. If you decide to go for the yearly plans for gator, you could save a lot more than their advertised prices by using the coupons: ‘HOSTGATOR25OFFER’ gives you 25% off on your hosting cost, so you could end up saving $30-$70 using this coupon based on how many years you go for. If you want to go for a monthly payment, then you could get your first month for 1 cent by using ‘MONTH1FREE’ coupon.
Hope that helps. If you feel this answer was more useful than others (and saved you some money :-)), I wouldn’t mind a ‘best answer’ award!
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