A domain name is a way of referring to the website’s address. The following sections describe some hosting options.
- Geeks Hosting: It is also possible to host website at your own web server at home. For it you would need a web server machine, always-on high-speed Internet connection, server software, and technical knowledge of installing, configuring, maintaining and securing your own server. This option is usually for computer geeks.
- Free Online Hosting: Some website hosting sites allow free hosting for website. They offers this free because they limit the storage space, number of pages, and file you can put on their sites. Google Site, for an example, takes care of all hosting services for free but does not allow you any domain name service (knows DNS) and gives you very limited amount of space. If you have low technology needs, this might be the option for you.
- Online Hosting Services: Some companies offer web hosting for an affordable cost, plus initial setup fees. They usually have different hosting plans, based on what you need in terms of domain (like which extension you need) and other technical services (like physically maintaining the web server and installing new software).
- Commercial Hosting: If you have large business and are expecting a huge amount of traffic, you might want to consider professional kind of hosting. For a good sum of money, a hosting company rents you a part of their server and maintains it for you. This gives large range of features for client end but is expensive.
Working with Different Types of Hosting Services
After you have chosen the type of hosting you want, your job might not be complete. In fact, you might spend as much time researching the available services as you did choosing the type of hosting.
- Free services: Several free hosting services exist on the Internet. I am providing a list of some sites here, but this is by no means a complete list, and new site hosts show up every day. Before signing up, review the features of the site and terms of services and use, read reviews of the service, and if possible, look at sites that use the free hosting service. Remember that although all these sites will host your website for free, they do come with limitations. Below you can see some common free website hosting providers.
| Web Host | Interests | Web Space | Forced Ads | Your Ads | Upload | Scripting | Your URL | Rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HelioHost | Personal, Business | 500MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser, SiteCopy | CGI, PHP, ASP.NET, SSI, FrontPage Server Extensions, Perl, Python, Ruby | Domain, Subdomain | 125 | Reviews |
| Host-ed | Personal, Business | 1,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser, SiteCopy | CGI, PHP, ASP.NET, SSI, FrontPage Server Extensions, Perl, Ruby | Domain, Subdomain | 125 | Reviews |
| Freeost | Personal, Business | 10,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser, SiteCopy | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 113 | Reviews |
| FreeHostingHero | Personal, Business | 5,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 112 | Reviews |
| VlexoFree | Personal, Business | 500MB - 2000MB (2 GB) | TextLink | Allowed | FTP, Browser | CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Server Extensions, Perl, Python, Ruby | Domain, Subdomain | 111 | Reviews |
| 1FreeHosting | Personal, Business | 10,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 110 | Reviews |
| AwardSpace | Personal, Business | 250MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | CGI, PHP, Perl | Domain, Subdomain | 110 | Reviews |
| 0-Host | Personal, Business | 1,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 109 | Reviews |
| FiberStorm | Personal, Business | 1,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 104 | Reviews |
| 0nline | Personal, Business | 8,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser, SiteCopy | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 103 | Reviews |
| FreeHostingNoAds | Personal, Business | 20,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 103 | Reviews |
| ByetHost | Personal, Business | 1,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 102 | Reviews |
| RichardPF | Personal, Business | 1,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 102 | Reviews |
| 0xHost | Personal, Business | 1,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain | 99 | Reviews |
| MyHost | Personal, Business | 1,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 99 | Reviews |
| Webhosting-For-Free | Personal, Business | 100MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP, SSI, FrontPage Server Extensions | Domain, Subdomain | 99 | Reviews |
| FnHost | Personal, Business | 1,000MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 97 | Reviews |
| 100Webspace | Personal, Business | 100MB | Banner-Top + TextLinks | Allowed | FTP, Browser | CGI, PHP, SSI, FrontPage Server Extensions, Perl | Domain, Subdomain | 96 | Reviews |
| 50Webs | Personal, Business | 500MB | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | - | Domain, Subdomain | 95 | Reviews |
| HostFree | Personal, Business | Unlimited disk space for file storage | No ads | Allowed | FTP, Browser | PHP | Domain, Subdomain | 95 | Reviews |
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