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Nick Papas is the founder of http://www.ip.gr a major web hosting company in Greece. Please visit http://www.ip.gr
There are some things you should check out when you are up to choose a web host. You should look into the criteria between choosing a free web host that will deal up to your Web hosting solution.
If you tend to choose a free web host you should check the next six important things:
1. Usually free Web hosting do not give enough space for your web site. If some time you wish to expand your web site then you should check if you can do such an expansion (if you have this possibility).
2. Most free web hosts post advertisements on your web site. This is done in order to cover the costs of providing you the free web space and the additional services. Moreover, some hosts require from you to place a banner on your pages, pop up windows or advertising frames on your site (the last one causes problems when you want to submit your web site to search engines).
3. Whether you need sound files, video clips, etc it is very important to know the maximum size of each of the files you want to upload. Also, many sites restrict the file types you can upload.
4. If someone finds your site on a search engine, and he tries to access it but he cannot find it because it is down, he will surely ignore it and will try to find an another site from that list. This is definitely something that you do not want. Also, slow access is very disappointing for visitors and for you as well.
5. Nowadays, many free web hosts set a limit on the amount of traffic which your web site can use per day or per month. This means that if the pages and images on your site is very loaded by visitors beyond a certain number of times per day or per month, then the web host will possibly deactivate your web site or potentially just send you a bill for the extra needed space for that time. It is not easy to set a specific minimum limit of bandwidth, since it depends on how your site is designed and the number of visitors that you can attract to your web site. In general, 1 to 3GB traffic per month is usually enough for the needs of a simple site.
6. Some free hosting providers allow you to design your web pages with their online builder. This is useful for if you are a beginner. But do you have the option to expand your pages later when you become experienced and their online page builder does not have the facility you have in need? FTP access or generally the ability to upload your pages at any time by any way is the most of the times considerable.
The above issues are of a great importance if you consider to have a respectable web site. Watch out these six highlights and you will have not any important problems for you web site to a free web host.
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