Two Steps to Making Free Webhosting Just as Good as Paid

I know there are thousands if not millions of people looking to setup a website daily. Everyone has questions about hosting, is free hosting worth it? Is cheap hosting any good? What? I need a domain name? Being in the website business I hear them all of the time. I am here with 2 tips that I use for new websites all of the time that takes no money and has the same features and effects as any other website.

Step One:

First you're going to need hosting. You want good hosting. You want Cpanel back end support. Support to upload via FTP. Before I found this website I was convinced that you could not have all of this with any free hosting service. This site also supports a ton of high end content management systems. PhP, Word press, Joomla, Druple and standard websites. They also support straight HTML and CSS. The bandwidth and storage is a bit slim but still exceed most if not all free services.

So here is the stats!

1500 MB Disk Space, 100 GB Data Transfer

PHP with MySQL Database Support

PHP mail() function and Sendmail

Curl, GD2 library, ImageMagick, Zend

fopen() and PHP sockets

safe_mode is OFF, file uploads ON

Zend Optimizer support, Ioncube loader.. and much more features are enabled

cPanel Control Panel

Fantastico De Luxe 1-Click Autoinstaller

Website Builder Software

Check them out here

Step Two:

So you have the hosting, They give you a domain name which is formatted a bit strange. It's usually www."yoursitename".Site90.net This doesn't look as good or official as a true "Dot com" You have two choices at this point. You can either register a .com for something around 10$ a year. This can be fully used with this hosting company and will work much like a real domain on a paid service. If you are just testing the waters on this internet thing and don't want to put up any money at first then there is a second choice.

There is a domain registration service called co.nr. Here you can register a co.nr domain name. Not as exclusive as a .com but it is ad free. It looks better than any free sites domain system . This is fully free and it works well. This is the best alternative to a "dot com" that I'm aware of.

There you have it. My two step program for having a nice looking blog or website but still keeping it 100% free. This is the best way that I know of to date but I tend to stay on top of this subject. With the huge wave of free tools that have come with the web-2.0 era paid hosting can wait until the site can pay its own way!