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Beware of Free Website Building and Hosting

Why Free Website Building and Hosting is Horrible

When you choose anything for free there is a tradeoff and it is no different with free website building and hosting. You want to make sure you have a powerful website for all your online needs, and this usually does not come for free. There are some very bad things that you may experience with free website building and hosting and you need to be aware of them.

First, if you choose to have a website built for free or you do it yourself for free, you may not have all the design options you get when you pay a professional or use professional design tools to build your website. If the design of your website is not clean and professional, you may struggle to keep the visitors on your site.

Second, with free website building and hosting chances are you will have to display ads on your site for the company providing you with the hosting and website building tools. This means, that you will lose visitors to these ads that will not buy from you or will not read the content you put up. The ads they use can be very distracting and are more of a benefit for them than you.

Third, free hosting is always very limited and you will not have much space. You can put up a website or blog with a free host, but as soon as you hit a specific size limit, you are done. You can no longer grow and you will not be able to add any more information to your site. This will not take long considering they don't give away much free space.

Finally, the time it will take for your site to load may drive away visitors. Free hosting is not known for speedy load times and anything over about 5 seconds is considered very slow. This hurts your search engine optimization and will drive away impatient visitors that will not wait for your site to load.

Why People Choose Free Website Building and Hosting

The major reason why people choose to go with free website building and hosting is simply because it is free. They don't want to invest any more money than they have to in order to achieve success online. This is fine if you are not trying to make money online, but if you are, you need to pay for hosting and web design.

If you were to go into business for yourself and it was not going to be an online business, would you have to go out and lease or buy a location? Of course, you would and the same goes with running an online business. Your location is your domain name and the foundation of this domain name is the hosting you use to allow others to access your website.

Achieving success online is not going to come for free, but it does not have to cost you a fortune either. There are many alternatives to free website building and hosting that you can get for under $10 a month for the hosting and under $20 a year for the domain name. Most of these hosting accounts will include free access to WordPress, Joomla, and other potential design tools to help you put up a professional website very easily.

Instead of rolling the dice with free website, building and hosting you can spend a very little amount of money and get all the tools you need. You will have plenty of space, most of the time it is unlimited, and you will have the necessary speed to become successful. The best part is you don't have to display any distracting ads when you pay for your hosting.

Avoiding Free Website Building and Hosting

If you are not willing to invest $150 a year into your online business for hosting and a domain name, then you might as well quit right now. That is a very small amount of overhead and it will give you the foundation you need to achieve success online. Of course, you will probably need to spend more money for marketing, but without a foundation that includes a domain name and hosting, you might as well forget it.

Avoiding the free hosting options is the best thing you can do. Even though it sounds great because it is free, it is not and you really need to have the power of a real hosting account and a domain name. The design part is not all that hard with WordPress and you won't have to worry about the downfalls of free website building and hosting anymore.


Hanson

Hanson is an internet professional with a strong focus in the hosting industry. Her experience includes everything from running her own hosting company to building websites. Connect with Hanson on Twitter and Google+.

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