So, You Want Your Own Website? Is Free Or Paid Hosting Right For You?



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You have made the decision to build a website! Good for you. Whether you are simply looking for a way to show off your family, to try your hand at making money from an affiliate program or to go into a full-fledged business, your first decision is going to be where to host it.

Traveling the maze of hosting options is a bewildering and time consuming job these days. There are literally millions of hosting sites on the Internet! If you don’t believe me, try putting “hosting sites” into any major search engine, and look at the number of sites you will get back. There are free ones, cheap ones, expensive ones… ones that offer a lot of space or only a small space… some offer free templates to build a site “in minutes” and some require an extensive knowledge of HTML programming. Will you need an on-line control panel? Do they allow uploading from your hard drive, or are you going to need an FTP manager? Am I confusing you? Well, these are all things that you are going to need to consider before you make your choice.

Most people want to try their hand at a free site to begin with. If you are going to try and do it yourself this is a good way to start learning the ins and outs of site design. I strongly recommend that you sign up with a well-established free hosting site for starters. There are a ton of free hosting options out there, but
you are going to want one that is not going to disappear after you have built your site! You also want one that has very little down time. The best site is never going to be seen if the host is unreliable. So, consider such hosting options as Tripod, AngelFire, Yahoo Geocities, AOL Communities and other long-standing sites for your choice. Remember, anyone can buy a used server and set himself up as a hosting site, it does not mean that they will give you anything but grief.

If you are starting a business, you really should consider paying for your hosting. Those banners at the top of your free site, or the constant ad pop-ups say to the visitor that you do not have enough faith in your product to risk paying for a site! It may be unfair, but it is the reality. How much you pay for your hosting has a lot to do with your budget. Most of the free sites will allow you to upgrade to a banner-less site for a small amount of money each month.

If you are thinking of going with another option, shop around carefully. Check to see how long any hosting business has been around. You are going to want to pick one with a proven track record. Do they have an 800 number for tech support? Sites that only offer email support are chancy. They might not respond for days, or at all. Any reputable hosting business will have a phone number clearly posted. Be sure and check out what country they are located in. You don’t want language problems if you need help. You also might seriously consider contacting them and asking them for the email addresses of other clients. This is a good way to see if their other sites are satisfied with the service. If they don’t want you to contact their other clients, beware!

Also, I assure you that you do not have to pay a lot of money in order to get a good hosting site. There are many good options in the $15 to $20 a month price range. Don’t be dazzled by a lot of options that you may not need. All it really takes is common sense to find just the right hosting site for your needs. Good luck!



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Okay, one of the reasons why posting has been light on this blog is because we have been busy. My wife and I have also had our first child (well, two years ago) and to be honest, our work has become less innovative in terms of doing cool new things and more iterative, as in we have been applying a lot of the cool things we learned and developed over the last few years.

This happened because we changed our business model from agency style to "plug us into your operations and we will be your dev crew" style.

Anyways, every once in a while we like to take stock and see where we may be able to gain some time so as to try and work in our next direction or new model, whatever that may be. The applications that we use are often places where we can find cool new stuff and gain time.

What things have you done to find extra time? Please, share below!

Here are three things that, in the last year point five have helped us find some extra time.

  1. Navicat: we moved all of the bits of PHPmyAdmin accesses over to navicat at about the end of 2007 and this was an excellent move. Tonnes of time gained.
  2. TeamViewer: for quick support and desktop sharing with remote staff.
  3. Buying a netbook and using Maxivista and Ultramon: adds two new monitors to my existing setup. I now have a 4 monitor two computer setup which allows me to not only have two more monitors but I can also have open two versions of many of the apps that I use (useful for multitasking with teams etc.)
  4. Moving simpler client sites to WordPress: now that it has one step upgrades and almost doesn't require the use of an FTP client to get up and running on some hosts.
  5. Dictation Software: I have been using Dragon Naturally Speaking for writing some course and blog materiel lately (pre-writing for my new blog). I find this is saving me a load of time and I am getting more written then ever before.

So what solution have you implemented lately to buy you some extra time?



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