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Use Paid Or Free?

by kb24
8 replies
Directing your traffic to a squeeze page to collect e-mail and name use paid hosting or free?
#free #paid
  • Profile picture of the author flamma
    I wonder the same. I am going to set up som squeeze pages. Is it possible to use weebly, squidoo, blogger, or similar for a squeeze page ? Or du you have to use 'proper' hosting ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Emilis Strimaitis
    Well, people are very suspicious. Free hosting might look like you are a "scammer" or something like that. It surely doesn't add a value for you.

    I suggest you grab a paid hosting and a cheap domain name (domain is like 7$ with godaddy coupon, and hosting is as low as 1-2$/mo), and you will look a lot more professional.
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    • Profile picture of the author BruceWood
      Originally Posted by Emilis Strimaitis View Post

      Well, people are very suspicious. Free hosting might look like you are a "scammer" or something like that. It surely doesn't add a value for you.

      I suggest you grab a paid hosting and a cheap domain name (domain is like 7$ with godaddy coupon, and hosting is as low as 1-2$/mo), and you will look a lot more professional.
      First, some of the free sites will shut you down if they smell commerce, and second, what Emilis said! Be a professional!
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike McAleer
    If you use MailChimp, then they give you a long url to host your squeeze page. You can also set up templates with them.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicelife
    I suggest you get a domain name and hosting, this will convert more visitors into subscribers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Christian Little
    Use paid hosting, it's really not that much money and it's more reliable.

    Let me give you some comparisons:

    Free Hosting
    Uptime: If you have 75% uptime you've found a really good free host
    Support: You'll never get any kind of support
    Databases (to store your email list): Only about half the free hosts out there offer it
    Speed: There's probably 10,000+ other sites running on the free server. Suffice to say, it's resources will be stretched pretty thin.

    Paid Hosting
    Uptime: 99% uptime is the standard. I'm not sure about other hosting companies, but we've got 2 uptime monitors running to keep track of it (one is showing us 100% and the other is showing 99.97% uptime for the past month).
    Support: Most off 24/7 support in some form
    Databases: Most offer unlimited MySQL databases
    Speed: You're looking at sharing the resources with maybe a few hundred accounts (if even) instead of several thousand accounts. It makes a huge difference in speed.
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  • Profile picture of the author BryanShearer
    Paid, paid and paid! Paid hosting is so cheap now that if you can't afford the few bucks to drop into hosting, this really isn't the business for you. Free hosting is slow and unreliable and no one will take you serious. Start out small and use some cheap shared hosting and you can only go up from there!
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  • Profile picture of the author vishalduggal
    You can use an .co.cc domain name. It looks somewhat like the .com
    You can use byethost for hosting that is also free.
    Drop me a PM if u need any help.
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