What I’ll be covering in this article on how to Create a Website For Free is the topic of "free web hosting" and I’ll be outlining some of the benefits and disadvantages of using such hosts.
If you are new to the world of website building and want to create a website for free and find a web host for free, then this may be of value to you. It is probably okay to have your website hosted for free provided that it is for personal use only. It is fine for initially learning how to upload and download your website files and using their FPT software. (File Transfer Protocol.)
You will normally be allocated a set amount of space (about 20 MB – sometimes more), which is plenty to start off with.
Some free web hosts (like the ones I’ll mention later) include add-ons such as:
· Guest Book · 404 Error Pages · Counters · Feedback Forms · Survey Forms
There are those that also give your new website some free promotion. These benefits are basically fine for beginners when creating websites for free.
If you use Lycos free web hosting you will get your new website indexed within a couple of days – believe it or not. That is because they heavily use Google Ads that surrounds your website and that is based on your content. This is how the free web hosting companies make their money from you – through Pay Per Click advertising.
Of course, where your website is ranked/positioned will depend on your competition and on the nature and quality of you website content.
Lycos free web hosting is however, very easy to use – especially for a beginner.
To be fair, I started off by using them myself and learned a helluva lot - I even made some money selling stuff but there are some serious disadvantages... As I have stated, I started out by using them myself but one of the major problems that I had with them (one in particular - Lycos) was the amount of downtime, which was normally due to maintenance – and it nearly always seemed to be at the beginning of the weekend; that’s when people find time to surf the net – what a bummer that was. The thing is you can’t complain because it’s all down to larkins. (Free) Which makes it really worth as much as you pay for it?
If you get a problem and need to contact them – well forget about it. I tried endlessly and all to no avail on many occasions. They never bothered to reply to my emails. (They do provide a half decent paid hosting service, as I have used them a few years back. They’re not great, but they’re okay.)
Some years ago (when I was using Lycos Free web hosting) I had a website owner who completely plagiarised by website (literally word for word) as I’d taken the number one spot on Google, and so I threatened to take action against him. He had a dot com website and instead, contacted my free web host and told them a bunch of out and out lies to which they blocked my website immediately.
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