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Is it really Worth Paying for Web Hosting?
Is it really necessary to pay for web hosting? Well it depends on what kind of sites you’re having. For me personally, mymyTech is hosted by Hostmonster, which I believe is a very reliable host. I’ve purchased two-year service on January 1st, 2008, for $5 per month. You may say, not bad. Yes, it isn’t too bad considering that you’ll probably get it back having some ads up eventually. But is it really necessary?
Unless you miraculously have million visitors in your new site, I believe starting with a free hosting is a good approach, and I should’ve done so as well. Statistically, wordpress only uses couple of megabytes, and the posts & pictures aren’t much either. Considering that free hosting services, such as the one shown on top right of this site, gives you 250mb memory along with 100gb bandwidth, I believe everyone should start little from there. No ads, free hosting, plenty of bandwidth, maybe you just need couple of dollars for a domain name.
Of course, you can always purchase a paying hosting and transfer everything once you reach the limit. I just wanted to share my thoughts, and hopefully it’ll make some of you consider to save some cash.
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I am using hyperwebenable which provides domain+hosting free but they have ads on blog. |
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Rohit, Oh I haven’t thought of using services like hyperwebenable. May I ask which ads are the ones they require you to have on your site? I can’t seem to tell which one’s which. I’ve looked through, and it seems like a great deal, keep a minimum traffic, get services for free. But I wonder if it’ll be reliable since it says that it’ll be deleted if the site doesn’t meet their minimum requirement. But again, a good way to start clean without any loss…
Just for clarification, 000webhost isn’t mine, and thanks for sharing about your site web hosting as well. |
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If you are planning to monetize your site, would rather get a cheap hosting plan ..it’s good for the long term.. you’ll never know when your free host is going down |
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I just hoped that the inevitable would not have happened, but for years i have been blogging on blogger, and all of a sudden they decided to pull my plug by disabling my account, and all the google services went alongwith it, Till date i regret using a free hosting. I had to start all over again, but the older i got the wiser i was i always used to backup my blog on blogger. nevertheless would never look back on free hosting. |
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Joe, sorry to hear that. Free hosting does sound great but the downside would be its reliability. I know that free service will have its ups and downs, but if you’re willing to backup daily, I guess it’s worth a try. Thanks for sharing your experience.
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Hi sJ_Dan, |
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Rohit, oh thanks for your reply.
No ads for you? Nice. But about 000webhost, I suppose they’re being cautious about new registrants because of how people may take advantage of it as a fraud. I hope things work out well for you. |
only if i made up some cool random name like google.
id be very very very happy