Recomend A Free Hosting Website?????

[cr8aig]

Hi,

I am looking for a free web and email hosting for my new business. Its more for the emails really so we have the email the same as the domain. The website is just going to be a information website possible to start with one page.
So I am in need of a free hosting site that is reliable and easy to use, and that people have got good results from.
Please let me know what you have used and if it was any good.

Thank you.

 

[Dawg]

Is your new business a bit under capitalised if you can't afford £30 a year for hosting?

 

[LicensedToTrade]

£30? Try £15. For what he needs he could get the domain registered and have a single page website with email accounts for less than £15.

You must not have a lot of confidence in your business if you won't spend £15 on your online presence.

 

[Dawg]

The point remains. £30 or £15 or £50: if you can't afford that can you start a viable business?

 

[LicensedToTrade]

The point remains. £30 or £15 or £50: if you can't afford that can you start a viable business?

I think it is a resounding 'No'. I certainly wouldn't expect him to be turning over 100k in the first year.

 

[Business1Solutions]

As the above people say you will not find anywhere which will do that for you.

We can offer you Web Hosting, but it will not be for free

If you are interested in paying please PM me

 

[bdw]

Free websites and domain names will do your business more harm than good. Pay the man!

 

[cr8aig]

I was seeing if there was any where that did it for free as what is the point of paying for something if you can get it for free. Even though someone might have a large capital to start there business why wast eit on things you get for free. That just not good business.

But thank you for you comments even though they where no help. And lets hope you are never in need for some information.

 

[cr8aig]

Free websites and domain names will do your business more harm than good. Pay the man!

Thank you for the information.

 

[british steve]

I was seeing if there was any where that did it for free as what is the point of paying for something if you can get it for free. Even though someone might have a large capital to start there business why wast eit on things you get for free. That just not good business.

But thank you for you comments even though they where no help. And lets hope you are never in need for some information.

Good to see you are starting your business on a good firm foundation!

 

[evocart]

Our hosting starts at just £29 per year (or £2.99 month) which is pretty cheap for what you get. As others have said, hosting is very important to online business, however free hosting usually comes with advertising, no/little support and no guarenteed uptime.

All business need a cash investment, so starting off by scrimping on hosting is not a good way forward as you may decide to cut corners on other areas as well.

 

[bdw]

I was seeing if there was any where that did it for free as what is the point of paying for something if you can get it for free. Even though someone might have a large capital to start there business why wast eit on things you get for free. That just not good business.

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But thank you for you comments even though they where no help. And lets hope you are never in need for some information.

What I offered you was good advice as everyone else did but if you are not prepared to listen then so be it. If you are serious about starting a business you have to realise that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. As stated above "free" hosting accounts all require something from you.

I am offering you this advice after nine years of self employment and when I started I tried to do things like what you are doing now, in other words do everything on the cheap. I soon realised that doing things like this properly carries an overhead.

It is unprofessional to use free hosting accounts. That is a fact, ignore it if you will.

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[Dawg]

I was seeing if there was any where that did it for free as what is the point of paying for something if you can get it for free. Even though someone might have a large capital to start there business why wast eit on things you get for free. That just not good business.

But thank you for you comments even though they where no help. And lets hope you are never in need for some information.

The comments might not have been of any help to you, but were possibly of help to the many people out there looking for advice on starting a business.
As said, free hosting will be slow, unreliable and might have advertising. If you can't afford to avoid these pitfalls for a relative pittance all we can wish you is good luck: with that attitude and that cashflow/capitalisation you might need it.
Others might now realize the value of spending a few pence a day on hosting, also on not taking hours to save 45 pence on a domain name. They might even come to a business forum looking for advice on business.

Next in the series:
Will you be my accountant if I give you a credit on my website?
Will you make my website for free as it will be good for your portfolio?
Will you give me an idea for an intertunnels business that earns me £50k a week for 1 hours work?

 

[cr8aig]

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What I offered you was good advice as everyone else did but if you are not prepared to listen then so be it. If you are serious about starting a business you have to realise that there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. As stated above "free" hosting accounts all require something from you.

I am offering you this advice after nine years of self employment and when I started I tried to do things like what you are doing now, in other words do everything on the cheap. I soon realised that doing things like this properly carries an overhead.

It is unprofessional to use free hosting accounts. That is a fact, ignore it if you will.

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I did thank you for your advice as it was good information. And if someone had said it is Unprofessional and it comes with loads of advertising dont do it. That would of been good advice. But for others just to say I shouldn't be starting a Business as I have little capital when they know nothing I though was a little rude.

 

[cr8aig]

The comments might not have been of any help to you, but were possibly of help to the many people out there looking for advice on starting a business.
As said, free hosting will be slow, unreliable and might have advertising. If you can't afford to avoid these pitfalls for a relative pittance all we can wish you is good luck: with that attitude and that cashflow/capitalisation you might need it.
Others might now realize the value of spending a few pence a day on hosting, also on not taking hours to save 45 pence on a domain name. They might even come to a business forum looking for advice on business.

Next in the series:
Will you be my accountant if I give you a credit on my website?
Will you make my website for free as it will be good for your portfolio?
Will you give me an idea for an intertunnels business that earns me £50k a week for 1 hours work?

Sorry but there isn't a atitude you where theh one that said I dont have any cpaital to start a business so I shouldn't bother which is a little rude.

I appreciate you telling me why I shouldn't get free hosting beause of adverts and and speed and possible going of line. That is all I wanted to know. Not that I have little capital and am not going to do well.

Thank you

 

[evocart]

But for others just to say I shouldn't be starting a Business as I have little capital when they know nothing I though was a little rude.

Trust me, I have heard a lot worse, people saying "you can't" do anything "stick to your day job" and even "you'd stab your granny to get ahead in business" so you have two options...

1) Take it to heart and let them win

2) Take any good points and discard any crap (though consider what is being said as it may just help in the future)

You really need to have a thick skin, and as was said to me "toughen up or you'll get trampled on"

No once can (or should) tell you how to run your business, however listen to all advice good and bad and then discard anything that doesn't help.

 

[Ron Mahoney]

But thank you for you comments even though they where no help. And lets hope you are never in need for some information.

Always in the need for some information - always

 

[bdw]

But thank you for you comments even though they where no help.

I did thank you for your advice as it was good information.

What part of "they were no help" was "good information"? :|

I said earlier that there aint no such thing as a free lunch. Actually forums like this where people freely offer advice based on long experience are as close to your free lunch as you are going to get. What you have to realise is that most of us also have businesses to run and we cannot always offer detailed replies.

Take what good advice you get in here and appreciate it. Perhaps in a couple of year's time you can come along here and offer something in return.

 

[LicensedToTrade]

When looking at 'free' solutions you shouldn't just consider how much money you could potentially save, but also look at what you could potentially be losing as a result.

Scenario 'A'
You get your hosting and domain for free and set up your website www.abcproducts.freedomain.com. You have saved £30.00

You get 50 customers in your first day of trading. 2 of these place an order and you generate a total of £20 profit. 48 of them distrust your site because of the freebie domain and do not place orders.

Your net profit is £20.00

Scenario 'B'
You get your hosting and domain at a cost and set up your website www.abcproducts.com. You have spent £30.00

You get 50 customers in your first day of trading. 10 of these place an order and you generate a total of £100 profit. 40 of them trust your site but do not place orders today.

Your net profit is £70.00 (£100-£30)


...now alright this is pretty basic and assumed but you get the drift. This is a very real reflection of the impression a freebie website gives. You might be selling services, in which case this becomes even more important.

 

[Dawg]

Or.....

gdi its 7 day free trial but you can make thousands and get as many free domain names as you need.

freedom.ws access code: tombuckland

Income for Life Yank spam.

Run along Tommy, not wanted here.

 

[ad1969]

I use 'nameroute' for free web hosting and email. Just google them for the website address (or add a www one end and a co uk the other...), as I'm very new to this forum and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post links.

It can be hard to find the right info on their site, but they do free hosting, as I have it on three sites that I own, and I have never had any problems in the time I've used them (approx 3 years). I do pay for the domain renewals through them, so I guess technically it isn't 'free', but I would have to pay for renewals anyway. I'm not sure if there would be any transfer costs though, as I always get my new domains from them.

Obviously, if you have high volume, then I think you will be required to get a paid hosting/email package.

Hope this helps.

 

[peebles]

go to www.lanquest-hosting.net. It's 99p a month or £9.99 per year. They are really helpful and will do anything for you.

 

[Media Storm]

Free websites and domain names will do your business more harm than good. Pay the man!

I can understand why free websites can affect your business, ranking etc..

But how can a free domain name do your business more harm than good?

 

[Dawg]

I can understand why free websites can affect your business, ranking etc..

But how can a free domain name do your business more harm than good?

I think the poster who made that statement might have meant free domain names as in dickydonut.noncewebbuilder.com or dickydonut.noncehosting.com, in which case he has a point: it looks pathetic.

But he might have meant what he wrote.....facepalm....

 

[Media Storm]

and

there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. As stated above "free" hosting accounts all require something from you.

It is unprofessional to use free hosting accounts. That is a fact, ignore it if you will.

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Ok lets try and iron out a few historical myths here.

It may in the past have been a bad idea to use sub-domain hosting which I presume is what (bdw) was trying to imply. Technology is steaming ahead at a frightening rate, and free TLD (Top Level Domain) hosting has now become more readily available to new or existing businesses looking for that better service than their competitors. We allow any new business startups, infact anyone who will have the need for a website to do due dilligence on our hosting services free for life, cancel whenever they like or they can upgrade the size of their space, bandwidth and addons as their business grows at anytime.

Our free web hosting accounts do not require anything from you eg: we don't advertise on your site, we don't use the hard sell tactics, we don't spam offering carrot danglers and our servers are monitored 24/7 by humans at a state of the art data center which has a 98.8% uptime record.

cr8aig unfortunatlely there is a lot of mixed advice available on the internet I would advise you to listen to the people who are in that specific industry.

"You wouldn't goto a dentist for heart surgery"

 

[bdw]

Our free web hosting accounts do not require anything from you eg: we don't advertise on your site, we don't use the hard sell tactics, we don't spam offering carrot danglers and our servers are monitored 24/7 by humans at a state of the art data center which has a 98.8% uptime record.

I appreciate that you do offer free hosting but it is on a very limited package that does not offer any software meaning that basic things like using online form submissions are not possible. It is all designed around signing people up because you know that they will need to upgrade to a paid account in the future.

There is nothing wrong with that and I am not condemning you for it but it does illustrate what I said earlier. IMO free accounts are no good for serious business purposes.

Also, a question, regarding your uptime record, is 98.8% classed as good uptime?

 

[Media Storm]

I appreciate that you do offer free hosting but it is on a very limited package that does not offer any software meaning that basic things like using online form submissions are not possible. It is all designed around signing people up because you know that they will need to upgrade to a paid account in the future.

There is nothing wrong with that and I am not condemning you for it but it does illustrate what I said earlier. IMO free accounts are no good for serious business purposes.

Also, a question, regarding your uptime record, is 98.8% classed as good uptime?

Hi BDW,

Im not one for having tittle tattle slanging matches on a business forum as this can seriously damage your reputation, but I would like to point out a few things on your quote above.

1. Yes the package is very limited if you took the time to read the description on the free web hosting page you would have picked up the point that this particular free account was for testing purposes and for businesses to do due dilligence and try the service before they commit their hard earned cash.

2. The amount of space we offer on the free web hosting account is more than enough to setup and easily administer themselves a 10 page joomla website to give new business an internet presence.

3. You are obviously not aware of what Quickinstall means. Quickinstall is a new upgraded version of Fantastico which lets you install and use 60 + open source software applications free of charge to build websites, forums and blogs such as Joomla, Mambo, Magento, Drupal, Wordpress, online form submissions and many more..

4. Like I said we don't do carrot danglers just transparent web hosting with no small print. If the customers wish to upgrade then thats their choice if they wish to remain on a free account then thats their choice also. We don't make any demands of any customers whatsoever. We do offer free technical support and advice before and after account creation.

5. This particular package is not intended to attract big business but rather SME's.

6. 98.8% uptime on our servers is the actual figures not fabricated ones like most other hosting companies claim.

I have looked at your portfolio, and I can see you have a few websites that you have designed that wouldnt even fill 20MB webspace, it would seem our free web hosting account services would be ideal for some types of your web development. As a web designer I would like to invite you to signup for one of our free accounts to test you have nothing to loose and you can terminate the account at anytime.

Regards

 

[bdw]

Thanks for the invite Tony but I generally advise my clients to organise their own hosting as it makes them independent of me as the designer and gives them full control.

 

[JulianneMoore]

thanks to all.. this is useful.