Create a Free Website

Many beginners gravitate toward the free hosters because they feel that registering a domain name is too expensive and/or too difficult. I realize the website building process may be intimidating for you if you've never created a site before. You may be worried about spending your money on something that is unfamiliar and difficult. I can totally understand that.

Parking your site at a free host is often like building a house on sand. It may be quick and and it may seem easy at first, but I can almost guarantee you it won't last long.

Disadvantages of Free Web Hosts

- May not be free forever

- No branded emails addresses (you@yourdomain.com)

- Long and hard-to-remember web address (instead of yourdomain.com)

- May have banners and/or pop ads on your homepage and/or all of your pages

- Limited web page space

- Can't add interactive features (chat rooms, message boards, games, online ordering etc.)

- Search engines often ignore them A HUGE disadvantage!

This is an example of a free hosting:

Terms of Service

A Violation of any of the below Terms of Service will result in action by xxxwebhost up to and possibly including the termination of your account, with or without warning.

xxxwebhost is a private service which provides free web hosting. We offer our free members up to 1500MB of web space, and 100GB data transfer per account. xxxwebhost reserves the right to cancel any account for any reason or no reason at all. xxxwebhost provides web hosting to any site that abides to our terms and conditions. xxxwebhost reserves the right to change the terms and conditions at any time. xxxwebhost users are entirely liable for all activities conducted through your account.

The following rules apply while using xxxwebhost services:

The most important rules are:

1. No adult content of any kind (allowed if you upgrade account)

2. No warez / hacking / phishing sites

3. No mass mailers / spammers (account will be automatically suspended if you will try to send mass mail), so if your software supports such feature, disable it right now.

4. We do not allow any file sharing scripts to be run. (allowed if you upgrade account)

5. Chat, proxy, or file download scripts are not allowed. (allowed if you upgrade account)

6. Paid-to-surf, auto-surf, buxto, and any other similar scripts are banned (allowed if you upgrade account)

7. We do not allow online gaming scripts such as ogame, mafia, etc.. (allowed if you upgrade account)

8. Nulled software such as ip.board or vbulletin is not allowed to be hosted

9. Account cannot be used to store files only (allowed if you upgrade account)

10. Sites related to torrents cannot be hosted (allowed if you upgrade account)

Other rules:
Obscene, graphically violent, and other inappropriate content is strictly prohibited etc., etc., etc.

Advantages of Owning Your Own Dot Com Name

- Easy to remember website address (yourdomain.com)

- No banners or popups

- Easier to get listed in search engines (Google, Yahoo etc.)

- You have more control over the look and feel of your website.

- Multiple branded email addresses (you@yourdomain.com)

- Plenty of web page space for site expansion

- Help is readily available

- More flexibility for design and functionality

- Looks more professional

- No worries of site being removed unexpectedly

Let me assure you that building a dot com site is not expensive at all. The average website costs between $5 and $10 per month to maintain.

This site costs me absolutely nothing to maintain because I earn all of my hosting fees back (and then some) by belonging to Google's free Adsense program.

They pay you to display text ads on your web pages and you earn a commission every time one of the ads gets clicked. And if you have a free site, you'll have a hard time getting accepted into this free program.