Web Hosting: How to choose free hosting plan

 If you have just started your career as a new webmaster and looking to start an online business, this article obviously has been made for you. When you are going to build your own website you must focus on three things-

• a web host 
• a domain name and 
• an application to create and manage your website

In the earlier post, I have discussed how to register domain for free. Today I am going to tell you how to choose a best hosting plan.

How to choose free web hosting:

• There are a lot of sites who provide you free web hosting. But, most of them do it through advertising. They impost advertisements on your site(20m.com). By this way they can cover their cost of providing free space for you. Someone impose banner on your pages or show a window that pops up every time and provide advertising on your website. So, you can choose any of methods which you feel more comfortable for you.
• Most of the free hosts apply you to host up to 20 Mb. Sites that needs less than 5 Mb are best. It depends on your site that how many space does it need?  If your sites filled with pictures, video clips and sounds clips, then you are going to pay a larger amount for your web space.
• FTP or File Transfer Protocol is the most common way to transfer files from your computer to web host computer which can be visited by anyone in the world. Some of free hosting companies allow you to design your page by their online site builder such as- wix.com. But, these online site builders have some limitation which can hamper your online business when you will be placed on advanced level. FTP access is very mandatory for your site which enables you to upload important files and pictures. But, some sites which are trivial do not need FTP access.
• Some free web hosts put a limitation to your file size and type. A maximum size of the file can be determined by the host that you upload. Others sites do not support HTML, JPG or GIF files that you prefer to upload. So, what will you choose? It depends on your demands. If you do not happy with them, you have go for others.
• Reliability and speed of your site are most important point. Visitors are the blood of a site. The more you can get visitors, the more your business/products will be flourished. A site which is down almost all the time definitely lose its visitors. When a visitors find your site on search engines and try to access it, he will notice that it is down. Then he will get out from your site and look for the alternative. People don't like to wait. They want to access your site quickly and it also embarrassing for you to upload any file. So, how can you find out that the host reliable or fast? If you do not have enough knowledge from any source, you can check it yourself. Make an experiment during both peak and off-peak hours. You will find the answer.
• Most of the free hosts impose a limitation on the amount of traffic that can use your site per day and per month. If your site hit the maximum number of traffic then your site is going to get down or you may be sent a bill to be paid. No one can advise you to determined specific bandwidth amount. Because, it solely depends on your site such as how it is designed, targeted traffic and amount of traffic you can attract to your site per day or month. But, you can have an idea that 100 Mb traffic is too little which can be used for your personal homepage and 1-3 Gb traffic per month is eligible for a simple website.
• One of the most important thing you should focus on that your host support PHP, MySQL or Dreamweaver etc. in order to manage your site.

I hope this article is very valuable for you to choose a free hosting plan. I have spent a plenty of time to make this post. Don't forget to comment about this post. Your comment will make me to write up this kind of posts. 

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How to register for a free domain

Free Domain Registration: How to Register

Before going for a discussion on free domain  registration choices let’s first define the meaning of the domain name and what that domain names are all about. According to a short definition and not going into very lengthy  details the domain name is a
  “string of letters and numbers that is used to name organizations, computers and addresses on the internet“.
 so basically, the domain name gives us the chance to remember the  name of web address or
website easily.

Fast development and deep penetration of Internet into all aspects of our life motivates businesses and even many individuals to go online i.e. to create their business or personal websites that all should have their own domain name to make their sites easier to locate the web.
We should also note that nowadays domain name is not only deal with the  name of the website but it more and more often becomes a well known brand (e.g. Google.com, Yahoo.com), a trade name, or identity of a well known Internet resource (e.g. bd24technews, the domain name of this site).
So it is very important to chose a name which is short, easy to memorize and reflects the website very well. No doubt large companies can afford to buy even very expensive short names from the current owners, however, that’s not the case for personal or even small business sites owners who do not want to invest too much making their first steps on the Web.
Buying a domain name is not too much expensive with popular extensions like .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, etc. there are still cases when the site owner does not want or cannot afford to buy a domain name even at quite low price, and in this case there is such option as free domain name that we discuss in this article.
Please note that there are a lot of free domain name scams on the web that trick Internet users offering free domains and making them fill in dozens of web forms, sing up for tons of “free offers”, etc. however, finally they never give away a promised free domain. Be aware. You've been warned.
In this article we propose to consider the following options to register a free domain name, which are trustworthy and not scams and can be used safely:

• A completely free domain registration
• A free domain name included with purchase of some service

By completely free domain name we understand the registration of domain name that does not require to pay a single cent for this or associated (included, additional) services. So that is possible to get a free domain without paying a single cent.
Such completely free domain services are usually powered by companies that provide free and low cost web services (such as free website hosting, unlimited shared hosting, VPS hosting, low cost domain registration, etc.) and thus they are able to pay the costs of free service offering extended/advanced services for a small or not very small fee. Such totally free domain services are recommended for small personal website owners, or for those who just start on the web and thus do not want to spend money at first.

As for the second option, there is a number of quite well known and reputable web hosting providers that offer to register a free domain name in case the customer purchases a yearly paid web hosting plan.
In case that is required to save on domain name registration and also to buy a web hosting plan at a reduced yearly price, that might be a good idea to check and carefully consider the following web hosts that are listed below best web hosting list and thus probably worth some attention:

1. JustHost – Just one hosting plan, Anytime Money Back Guarantee;
2. iPage – Green web hosting, Drag and Drop Site Builde included;
3. HostGator – Unlimited web hosting plans, cPanel hosting control panel;

However, when it comes to a web site for the online business we do not recommend to become attracted with the ease of registering a free domain name, but we’d suggest to spend some time learning the matter and to buy a cheap domain name yourself e.g. via Godaddy or perhaps to buy not cheap but a perfectly matching domain e.g. via Sedo domain name marketplace.