Free Web Hosting vs. Paid Web Hosting
Blogging has been the new fad recently. It is a way for individuals to express themselves and even promote their own business. Many web hosts offer free blogging and some require a fee. This article will help you to determine which one is right for you.
Most blogging software is considered to be open source, meaning that it is free. Blogger, owned by Google, is good for beginning bloggers. It is easy to use, web-based, and it is free. On the other hand, if your intention is to blog professionally and possibly run a large number of blogs with automated content, then Blogger is not for you.
Google has been known to shut down many blogs because they are considered to be spam.
For more control over your content, your best bet would be to use paid web hosting and have your blogs on your own server.
Another free web hosting site is Wordpress. They now offer free web hosting for Wordpress blogs at their .com site as opposed to the .org site where you can get the software and plug-ins. Just keep in mind that like Google, they are restrictive with what you can put on your blogs and how you update them.
Another disadvantage with free web hosting is that you have to display advertising of some sort, which ÒpaysÓ for your web hosting. This is especially not good if you are a business trying to sell something because the ads distract customers away from your page. Unless you are being paid per click through AdSense, then this is not the path for you.
When it comes down to it, paid web hosting is much more economically savvy. You have a wealth of choices, much more storage space, and it takes almost all restrictions off of you within reason. (Some sights do not allow you to host gambling or porno blogs.) Paid web hosting is not that expensive and they usually let you post as many blogs as you want. They usually charge only a couple of dollars a month, which eventually adds up to around $100 a year. It is an inexpensive investment that will help you to express yourself freely and help you to gain all the benefits of making money on the net.