Free Web Hosting for Businesses?
The trouble with free web hosting is that you get a web site address (the URL) which instantly indicates to visitors that your web site is hosted free, e.g. http://freespace.tiscali.co.uk/myspace. What does this say about you? Perhaps your potential customer will think, “Hey if they can’t afford a proper URL, how can I believe in what they are trying to sell me. Will my credit card order be safe?”, and so on. You get the idea, they just won’t perceive you as a real business. What if your Free Web Space provider starts to charge you? You might as well have paid for a proper service at the start. And what if your Free web space got closed down because of misuse by your “neighbours” at that Free web space? This could be due to spam e-mailing for example, or someone violating a Search Engines policies. Some search engines will blacklist IP Addresses, resulting in a whole free web space community being removed from the search engine database, including your website! You would then have to “