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Advertising

Almost every free web hosts providers shows advertisements on your site to cover the costs of providing free web space and other associated services.Some of the major type of ads that displayed by freehosts are

1. Banner Ads (on top or below of the page)
2. Pop Up windows (a pop window arise results of some action like loaded, click, mouse move)
3. Advertising Frames
4. Manual Ads Display
5. Text Ads on the top of the page

They above all listed methods of advertising has its own pros and cons

Free hosts without any forced ads is not good news, without any means of income from the service they can’t survive for long period. Sustainability is a important thing to note when choosing webhosts

Web space

Is the webspace given by the hosts is enough for my site content? this is the next question you have to ask yourself before choosing a good free webhosts. Most of the websites gives from 5mb to 500mb. if your site is text content based then don’t worry about space, because 500pages of text occupies only approximately 5-10mb. if you want to host private pictures the you need more webspace.so depending upon the number of pages and pics/videos you are going to store, the bandwidth need changes.

Bandwidth allotment

Bandwidth allotment is a most crucial part of the free webhosts. this depends on both the size of the content of your site and number of visits (not visitors). to calculate how much bandwidth you needed follow the simple calculation.

bandwidth needed approx = number of visits x size of the content

size of the content includes pictures and other media files that visible in the pages and which is stored in webspace

bandwidth needed=(size of the page1 x number of visits to page1)+(size of the page2 x number of visits to page2)+……….+(size of page n x number of visits to page n)

the above calculation are done for month. If you have 500mb of bandwidth per month then you can able to transfer 500mb of content to your visitors overall. you should not meet the bandwidth shortage situation. so choose your bandwidth according to the need.

File type restriction

some of the free hosts restricts to upload the files of some types.they were listed in their website. some hosts restricts to upload jpg/gif pics, and some restricts videos files,some restricts flash,swf.so choose hosts according to your content.

File size limitations

Most of the hosts use this to control the space crisis in free hosting. the rule is simple, every stuff you uploading to the webspace should be less than some MB (even in KB) in size. if the limitation is 5mb then you can’t upload a video of 6mb.

Reliability and Speed of access

This is the most crucial part of the webhosting. how do you feel when your site is down for most of the time or at peak time or tooks 10mins to load a single page. This will irritates you and your visitor. How to find a host is reliable or not? you have to do some homework like. requesting feedback from others who were using it from blogs and communtiy, review the reviews. the last one is time consuming but very effective.that yourself to find out by hosting some test content on the host, after all it is free not only for host also for test.

Domain Name

what type of domain name your hosts offers. subdomain , extended directory , or allows you to host your own domain.

• subdomain ( www.yoursite.alvistor.com )

• directory allocation ( www.alvistor.com/yoursite )

in this type of naming, if your site contents were good then the credits goes to www.alvistor.com and not for the directory part named “yoursite”.

• domain (www.yoursite.com )

most of the site will not allow you to host in your domain name. so try to find out hosting that provides this.

Perl , PHP Scripting enabled

This is not particularly crucial nowadays for a free web host, since there are so many free script hosting services available that provide counters, search engines, forms, polls, mailing lists, etc, without requiring you to dabble with Perl or PHP scripts.

However if you really want to do it yourself, with the minimum of advertising banners from these free providers, you will need either PHP or Perl access. Note that it is not enough to know they provide PHP or Perl access: you need to know the kind of environment your scripts run under: is it so restrictive that they are of no earthly use? For PHP scripts, does your web host allow you to use the mail() function? For Perl scripts, do you have access to sendmail or its workalike?

FTP access

Some free hosting providers only allow you to design your page with their online builder. While this is useful for beginners, do you have the option to expand later when you become experienced and their online page builder does not have the facility you need? FTP access, or at the very least, the ability to upload your pages by email or browser, is needed. Personally, I feel FTP access is mandatory, except for the most trivial site.

Database

check for sql database if you have plan to run CMS softwares. some hosts gives 1 database which is enough to run CMS software like wordpress,drupal etc.

Back-Up and Uptime Gaurentee

almost every free hosts gives the gaurentee of 99.9% uptime. but no one gives gaurentee for your content.Check for the backup policies.

If you plan to host a revenue making website, don’t remain in free webhosts for long.
No sniplet called hosting

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