The best place to search for free webhosting is on a free web space directory website (i.e. a web site which specializes in listing only free web hosting providers). There are some which add new free hosts pretty much every week (and if it is updated often, has usually had to delete about as many). There are also many which almost never update their web site, and a huge percent of their links and info are outdated. Unfortunately that includes most of the directories that were the best several years ago. The problem is free hosts change so often, and most fold up in less than a year (often even after only a day or two), that it is hard to keep such a free hosting directory up-to-date. The most recommended free web space directory is Free Web Hosting (http://www.free-webhosts.com/), which has a detailed list of over 500 free web hosting providers with user reviews, ratings, and free hosting searchable database. It is updated daily, and the advanced free web hosting search has 42 options, helping you to find the free hosting package with all the features you need, such as CGI, PHP, My SQL, ASP, SSI, Ruby on Rails, FrontPage server extensions, and even free c panel web hosting.
For a smaller, more selective list of the best free hosts, there are also these free web space hosting directories:
Best Free Webspace (http://www.100-Best-Free-Webspace.com/)
Free Hosting (http://www.Absolutely-Free-Hosting.com/)
Free Webspace (http://www.free-webspace.org/)
Other (usually less useful) resources include subcategories of freebies sites, search engines and directories, and forums. Your ISP might also supply you with free webhosting.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Recommended free web hosts
It would be awfully hard to recommend any free web space host and someone not like it, as different people need different web hosting features and have different priorities, and the webhosting quality may change over time. Also some people want free domain hosting (you own the domain), and others might not be able to buy a domain name. Here are some of the most recommended free web hosts, and their main features.
50Webs (http://www.50webs.com/) gives you a URL such as http://you.50webs.com/ (or you can use your own domain name), and offers 60 MB web space, POP3 email, and unlimited bandwidth. You can upload via a file manger or FTP import. There are no ads or popup placed on your hosted web pages. You can setup multiple add-on domains and sub domains under the same web hosting account.
Tripod (http://www.tripod.lycos.com/) is controversial. Many people hate the ads they put on your site or its other limitations, but it is one of the oldest and most reliable free web hosts. They give you 20 MB web space, a sub domain; file manager and editor, and webpage statistics. The bandwidth limit is 1 GB/month. You can upload several file types such as RealAudio, Real Video, Flash, MP3, and Java; and CGI/Perl, SSI, and FrontPage Server Extensions scripting is supported.
How do the free web hosts make money?
The free website hosts often make money in other ways, such as putting banners, popup, or pounders ads on your free WebPages. Some free web hosting companies do not put ads on your site, but require you as the webmaster to click on banners in their control panel or signup process, or just display banners in the file manager in hopes you will click them. Some lure visitors with free hosting in hopes you will upgrade and pay for advanced features. A few send you occasional emails with ads, or may even sell your email address. A new method that is becoming popular is requiring a certain number of "quality" forums posting, usually as a means of getting free content for them and thereby being able to display more ads to their website visitors.
Free Web Hosting Tips
Can you really get FREE web hosting
yes, there are hundreds of free hosting web sites, as far as not having to pay any money to have your website hosted. Generally they either cost you in time, web hosting restrictions, or modifying your free web pages by adding popup, banners, or other adverts. When looking for free web hosting (especially on search engines), you should beware that there are also a large number of commercial web hosts that claim to offer free hosting services, but those often have a catch, such as paying an excessive amount for a domain name or other service, and therefore aren't really free. The free hosting guide below will give you some tips for finding the right free webhosting company for you.
yes, there are hundreds of free hosting web sites, as far as not having to pay any money to have your website hosted. Generally they either cost you in time, web hosting restrictions, or modifying your free web pages by adding popup, banners, or other adverts. When looking for free web hosting (especially on search engines), you should beware that there are also a large number of commercial web hosts that claim to offer free hosting services, but those often have a catch, such as paying an excessive amount for a domain name or other service, and therefore aren't really free. The free hosting guide below will give you some tips for finding the right free webhosting company for you.
Friday, March 4, 2011
Hostway Bundles Free Marketing Platforms Into Web Hosting Plans
In an effort to simplify life for small businesses, Hostway (News - Alert) recently bundled its Instant Business Broadcast, a service that submits a business profile to 10 of the most popular online directories plus Newsletter Broadcast, a “robust” e-mail marketing platform into its Web hosting plans.
The goal, as explained by Hostway’s John Lee, senior vice president of small business hosting, is to help SMBs attract new customers and keep them coming back.
“That’s why we’ve made Instant Business Broadcast and Newsletter Broadcast easy to use and free with our Web hosting plans,” Lee said. “Instant Business Broadcast attracts new customers by getting small businesses in front of more people when they’re searching online. Newsletter Broadcast lets a small business stay connected with its customers through newsletters and email marketing campaigns.”
Since 1998, Hostway has invested in building one of the “most advanced, industry-leading foundations” of Internet data centers around the world. By acquiring smaller companies and expanding its global footprint, Hostway now owns and operates 12 state-of-the-art data centers around the globe.
In a recent interview with Todd Benjamin (News - Alert), director of enterprise hosting at Hostway, he explained that cloud hosting solutions provide flexibility for businesses with less of an upfront capital outlay on hardware.
In fact, the cloud facilitates flexible integration of applications, anywhere delivery of services and significant cost savings, Benjamin said.
With Instant Business Broadcast, a customer enters his or her business information into one form. Hostway formats the profile and submits it to 10 of the most popular online directories, includingGoogle ( News - Alert) Maps, Yahoo! Local, Bing and Yellowpages.com. The profile can include a link to the business Web site or serve as a stand-alone Web presence with all of the information people need to buy from the business, according to Hostway officials.
Newsletter Broadcast is an interface for creating and managing e-mail marketing campaigns. Users can plug their information into a template or upload their own HTML code and send it to a list of subscribers and track its success using the application. While most Web hosting companies charge for their directory listing service, Hostway is offering it free with any Web hosting package, company officials said.
The goal, as explained by Hostway’s John Lee, senior vice president of small business hosting, is to help SMBs attract new customers and keep them coming back.
“That’s why we’ve made Instant Business Broadcast and Newsletter Broadcast easy to use and free with our Web hosting plans,” Lee said. “Instant Business Broadcast attracts new customers by getting small businesses in front of more people when they’re searching online. Newsletter Broadcast lets a small business stay connected with its customers through newsletters and email marketing campaigns.”
Since 1998, Hostway has invested in building one of the “most advanced, industry-leading foundations” of Internet data centers around the world. By acquiring smaller companies and expanding its global footprint, Hostway now owns and operates 12 state-of-the-art data centers around the globe.
In a recent interview with Todd Benjamin (News - Alert), director of enterprise hosting at Hostway, he explained that cloud hosting solutions provide flexibility for businesses with less of an upfront capital outlay on hardware.
In fact, the cloud facilitates flexible integration of applications, anywhere delivery of services and significant cost savings, Benjamin said.
With Instant Business Broadcast, a customer enters his or her business information into one form. Hostway formats the profile and submits it to 10 of the most popular online directories, includingGoogle ( News - Alert) Maps, Yahoo! Local, Bing and Yellowpages.com. The profile can include a link to the business Web site or serve as a stand-alone Web presence with all of the information people need to buy from the business, according to Hostway officials.
Newsletter Broadcast is an interface for creating and managing e-mail marketing campaigns. Users can plug their information into a template or upload their own HTML code and send it to a list of subscribers and track its success using the application. While most Web hosting companies charge for their directory listing service, Hostway is offering it free with any Web hosting package, company officials said.
Get free web traffic by writing articles
Any website or blog is only ever likely to achieve its stated objectives where it receives a steady stream of targeted, Internet traffic. This means that attention must be paid to obtaining this traffic from every legitimate source possible for the lifetime of the website or blog. Although good SEO and subsequent high rankings in the search engines will be likely to generate organic traffic, these rankings can only be maintained and traffic levels maximised by also employing every possible means to drive traffic directly to the site from elsewhere around the Web.
When a website or blog is first created, it is common practice and an excellent idea to obtain as many permanent backlinks to the site as possible. In the first instance, this is likely to be achieved by submitting a link to the site to social bookmarking sites or blog directories and linking to it from any other blogs or websites which one administers around the Web. The problem with these links is that very often, over a period of time, the traffic which is obtained from them can begin to dry up and the effectiveness of the arrangement will diminish.
In order, therefore, to keep driving traffic to a website or blog, ways have to be found of creating new, legitimate links on a permanent basis. The beauty of article marketing is that by their very nature, articles afford bite-sized pieces of extremely relevant information, do not take long to write in comparison to website or blog content and can therefore be used almost indefinitely to create a stream of effective backlinks to any Internet location.
The best way to determine subjects for writing articles to generate traffic for a website or blog is to look at the bigger site and split it in to very specific subtopics. Although any website or blog should have been created on a niche subject in the first instance to stand the greatest chances of success, it should be possible to further separate the topic for article writing purposes. An extremely simple example of this procedure would be where the website is one which promotes a business selling a number of products. An article could very effectively be written upon one individual product, incorporating a link to the company website on the basis of affording further details or alternative options.
When a website or blog is first created, it is common practice and an excellent idea to obtain as many permanent backlinks to the site as possible. In the first instance, this is likely to be achieved by submitting a link to the site to social bookmarking sites or blog directories and linking to it from any other blogs or websites which one administers around the Web. The problem with these links is that very often, over a period of time, the traffic which is obtained from them can begin to dry up and the effectiveness of the arrangement will diminish.
In order, therefore, to keep driving traffic to a website or blog, ways have to be found of creating new, legitimate links on a permanent basis. The beauty of article marketing is that by their very nature, articles afford bite-sized pieces of extremely relevant information, do not take long to write in comparison to website or blog content and can therefore be used almost indefinitely to create a stream of effective backlinks to any Internet location.
The best way to determine subjects for writing articles to generate traffic for a website or blog is to look at the bigger site and split it in to very specific subtopics. Although any website or blog should have been created on a niche subject in the first instance to stand the greatest chances of success, it should be possible to further separate the topic for article writing purposes. An extremely simple example of this procedure would be where the website is one which promotes a business selling a number of products. An article could very effectively be written upon one individual product, incorporating a link to the company website on the basis of affording further details or alternative options.
New Customization Services At Cartish Web Hosting
The Dallas TX based web hosting and domain name company Cartish now offers its existing and new customers, to fully customize web hosting plans and other services.
This morning a spokeswoman for the web hosting provider said: “Customers now have all power at their fingertips with an almost endless variety of options to build their websites. And, if they wish, we can also build the sites for them.”
The spokeswoman added that Cartish Web Hosting is one of the most popular providers for creating online webstores that have an unlimited sales potential. According to her, Cartish offers customers 3 mouse click solutions to create ecommerce sites and merchant accounts.
This morning a spokeswoman for the web hosting provider said: “Customers now have all power at their fingertips with an almost endless variety of options to build their websites. And, if they wish, we can also build the sites for them.”
The spokeswoman added that Cartish Web Hosting is one of the most popular providers for creating online webstores that have an unlimited sales potential. According to her, Cartish offers customers 3 mouse click solutions to create ecommerce sites and merchant accounts.
Web Host ViaWest Hires New VP
ViaWest, a service provider of colocation and managed Web hosting, has recently hired David Tietjen to head up Sales for the Greater Utah Region.
ViaWest Sr. Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Bill Hobstetter said the hire is a demonstration of the company’s commitment to success. Hobstetter adds: “David brings with him a wealth of industry experience, and well established relationships in the local business community. We are very excited to have him on board, and I wholly anticipate he will bring ViaWest enormous success in the region.”
Tietjen, a graduate of Brigham Young University, has held key positions at various Utah-based organizations including Merit Medical Systems and MarketStar.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, ViaWest operates and maintains 16 data center facilities in Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada. Among the company’s more notable Web hosting clients are The Denver Broncos, Frontier Airlines, Chipotle, and Northrop Grumman.
ViaWest Sr. Vice President of Sales & Marketing, Bill Hobstetter said the hire is a demonstration of the company’s commitment to success. Hobstetter adds: “David brings with him a wealth of industry experience, and well established relationships in the local business community. We are very excited to have him on board, and I wholly anticipate he will bring ViaWest enormous success in the region.”
Tietjen, a graduate of Brigham Young University, has held key positions at various Utah-based organizations including Merit Medical Systems and MarketStar.
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, ViaWest operates and maintains 16 data center facilities in Colorado, Texas, Oregon, Utah, and Nevada. Among the company’s more notable Web hosting clients are The Denver Broncos, Frontier Airlines, Chipotle, and Northrop Grumman.
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