What is wrong with Free Hosting ?

Can be yanked at any given time.

For many years, I had a ton of free Blogger blogs ranked well for a number of different niches and then Google (since they owned Blogger) started messing around with everyone's blogs and rankings.

It's never a good idea to build your business on a spot that can be bulldozed without notice.

yeh right
but for someone who want to start and don't have enough money
isn't it good to buy a domain and use the free hosting ?

You can get hosting for less than $9 a month. Surely you can think of a few things that you spend that much on during the month that you can cut back on.

But to answer your question, yes you could purchase a domain through Blogger for around $10 and get free Blogger hosting. You would still get free hosting but the url is you domain and will make your site look more professional than the free version.

so "starting from zero ,blablabla..." is just a lie ?

Nope its not a lie. Build your business on Facebook first. Again they change the rules a lot so you have to be careful.

The problem with free hosting is they do not have the finances to keep up the software etc so often get compromised first.

Quentin

Hmmmmm....

OK, get out your bashing sticks... I'll wait for the blows to begin...

• I realize that LOTS of people WANT to make money online.
• I realize that MANY of those people don't have a lot to start with.

If you TRULY don't have $5 - $10 per month for hosting, that means you DON'T have $10 (the higher number) worth of DISPOSABLE INCOME.

If your budget is honestly that tight, PLEASE consider doing something that earns you more money right away. Something that isn't a risk. Something that won't evaporate overnight and leave you in a mess.

The lure of riches by pushing a button is strong and lots of people around here do very well.

That said, they also come by the thousands every year, buy WSO after WSO and surrender penniless.

You've got to have a *little* disposable income to build a reliable business. You COULD start with free domains/blogs, etc. to earn that disposable income - and some will argue they make a zillion dollars using nothing but free stuff. That's cool.

However, they will likely sell you a WSO that tells you how too.

If you are seriously that tight on cash, your basic needs are likely not being met - food, shelter, Diet Pepsi- (ok, that last on is one of MY basic needs, but you get the point).

If you're spending money on IM products but you can't pay your bills, you may want to rethink it a bit and try to bring in more reliable cash flow until you have a little disposable income.

This is not supposed to be a rant, and I know there will be those that disagree, but I don't like seeing people spending cash they don't have.

OK - bash away.

All success,

Gary

Alexa, other than the free hosting sites I would use back in the 90's, Blogger is the only free hosting service that I have used recently (last few years) so I can only speak from my experiences with them.

However, including all of the different free sites I have used since I started way back then, each and every one of them at some point, did some form of "bulldozing".

Well the terms allowed for commercial use and they even encouraged it providing the user with easy ways to add Adsense and later Amazon Gadgets (their version of a Widget).

I think the only way the terms would come into play, would be that because it was a free service, they could at their own discretion take back or change the service without giving notice. Which is what they did.

All of the free providers I have used throughout the years have made changes big enough that my hard work went down the drain at least once while using them.

Now I make sure to use a paid service that comes with terms (contract) that gives me some rights in the event that the provider does anything that destroys or hinders my work.

My limited knowledge of all of the free places now is probably a result of my past bad experiences with free hosting. Your suggestion of byethost.com, which I have never heard of, just goes to show that I am not aware of all of the free stuff out there now.

It is possible to start with nothing because I have. I have made a lot of money using free services. I would suggest trying to avoid relying on a service that has the ability to pull everything out from under you on a whim.

Gary, maybe people without disposable income are coming online where they can create extra income without mowing lawns.

I think that it's fine for people to try and make extra money without investing money if they can invest time.

But again, if someone has around $5 or $10 a month for hosting, I really think that you should try to make that investment.

It's like paying for the gas for the lawn mower that gets you the lawn mowing money.

One of the main problems with free hosting is the allowable size of files that you can upload. Additionally, many severely restrict the amount of MySQL disk space you are alloted. Many do not allow outgoing emails if any...and you get little to no support and horrible uptime.

I'd say hosting at $4 a month for several domains is better than free! You get all the professional back-up no ads and have a solid platform to build on.

Low Quality
Uncertainty
No proper agreement

Imagine this, you decide to launch a product/service, you design a website, written a sales letter. Done all necessary things.

Then you setup an advertisement on adword to promote your service/ product and as soon as your advertisement is live your host goes down.

And top of all, you come to know this after few hours..

Now tell me what is going to happen?

Nothing special, soon you will run out of business ....


D Maind

The number one problem you can encounter in free hosting is its reliability. You might not be able to have them just when you need them, uptime not guaranteed and so does the support.


Andrea

Best disadvantage of free hosting is that that they are free :-)
Others are less Features
Ad banners
overcrowded servers
No support.

What everyone else said.

1. 24/7 support
2. No banners
3. total control
4. unlimited bandwidth.

I 100% agree with Alexa on this. I used their free service to get started with and was fantastic, really.

As far as I remember you could add 50 sub-domains, unlimited Mysql databases and you could test sites out using their own top-level domains before investing in your own for that site.

I eventually upgraded to their paid service when I grew out of it and that was amazingly easy, they basically did all of the import/export for me - databases and all. All worked perfectly well.

I upgraded to a paid service which included a .com domain name for $36 a year (price may be a little higher these days)

It's a good place to start if you are keeping costs to a minimum as you can always upgrade.

Im using 000webhosting now..but i just buy myself another hosting company for a year.

You get what you pay for.

I recently wrote a blog post about it. IT is just a blog - no sales page, but it mentions some of disadvantages about free hosting. But, it may be the best option for those on a tight budget. here is the blog post: Information You Need to Know About Blog Hosts More Income Blogging | More Income Blogging

There is a lot of talk about free host and whether you should start out with them or not. Again, I must say it's all up to the individual on whether anything will come from it or not.

I've helped newbies get started on blogspot, byethost, 000web, and a few others; because, they were pretty much living on ramen noodles and couldn't afford ANYTHING. Yes, even $4.95 is a lot when that could be a lot of noodles and tea which is a sure thing for feeding the family.

The thing to remember about these is to only stay with them until you've made enough money to purchase hosting and a domain. Byethost is a little different because they ARE a good host and I still have FREE sites making money that I've hosted their.

The golden rule in Internet Marketing, don't ask questions on if something works, doesn't work, how do I make it work, etc, etc, JUST DO IT!!!

The outcome will provide YOUR OWN ANSWER and you've learned something ALL ON YOUR OWN.