Are You a Hosting Hostage?© 2004, John Calder http://www.TheEzine.net
In recent years, the hosting business has become extremely competitive. Not so long ago, the monthly price for an average hosting account for one domain was in the $35 and up range, at a minimum. Now, you can get a hosting account where you can host unlimited domains (up to the disk space and network usage limits of your account), for $25 and under. To try to win more customers in this crowded field, most hosting companies offer bundles of features, included at no extra charge in your hosting plan.
On the surface, all of those features look great, and they are. From single autoresponders to shopping carts, from private name servers to the amazing Fantastico package that lets you install any of numerous software packages, like blogs, content management systems, forums, help desks, and so on, with near one-click ease. But there's a hidden, more self-serving reason the hosting companies offer this convenience to their customers. They hope you'll become dependent enough on the software features they offer that it will discourage you from changing hosting companies.
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Free Hosting - A Real Bargain? With the availability of many free hosting offers so prevalent on the Internet, are they the bargain they seem to be?
I must admit the offer of free hosting does have major appeal however, rarely is something of value given away for nothing. At first glance, free hosting sounds like a good deal! Upon closer inspection, you'll find close to 100% of them not suitable for a business website at all.
Before getting one of the free hosting packages, the person needs to have a specific idea what the website is going to be used for. Is it personal or for business?
If it's a personal website that's going to be used to post the family newsletter, photographs and so on, it's a perfectly good use of one. On the other hand, if it's a website built for commercial purposes, the free hosting packages are of limited utility to a business operation.
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