Free Web Hosting - Not Worth The Hassle

Is free web hosting really worth it? Many will tell you it is. After all, free is the best price, right? Back in the days when the Internet was new, the minimalist sites with primitive graphics, plain white backgrounds, grainy midi and png files, and non-interactive blocks of text didn’t need a lot from their web hosts. Those were the days of angelfire and geocities, when the internet wasn’t as pretty or functional as it is now. Today, people need something different.

It doesn’t cost a lot. For a small amount each month, UK Web hosting can give you all the webspace you could need, a professional amount of bandwidth, and customer support to help you do everything you need, from media uploads and scripting to advertising and search engine optimization. If you care about maintaining a decent, professional presence on the web, it is no longer an option to settle for free web hosting. Go with affordable web hosting options like 600host.

The Internet has grown so much since those early days, and now anybody offering anything for free has some sort of ulterior motive. Maybe they want to pepper your site so it’s half adspace, and a visitor has to wait ten minutes for the whole page to load. The tech support offered by free sites is usually sub-standard, and there are often strict limitations on how much you can upload, what your content can be, and what scripts you can run on your site. Everybody wants something; people who offer free hosting want to keep your site from looking exactly like you want it. 600host  - UK Web hosting don’t need to do that, because of the small monthly fee they charge. They can pay tech support staff enough to actually be helpful to you, and offer a wide variety of options for your website. You are in charge of any advertising you choose to put on your website.

People used to expect a cheap, substandard appearance when they browsed the web. Now, people want you to look professional. Free web hosting constrains you to an unprofessional appearance, and forces you to comply to strict HTML, CSS, and occasional Javascript use, when the tools and techniques for constructing websites has come so far since those of the 90s. 600host and UK Web hosting let you use all the latest tools like Flash, Perl, Java, widgets, and more.

Isn’t it such a drag when you’ve let your imagination run wild, you’ve sketched out everything you want your website to do, you’ve searched the web for everything you love, only to discover that your free web provider won’t allow it? That you have to cut away half of your dreams and cripple the other half, to create something that looks decades-old? As a budding web entrepreneur or hobbyist, you have the right to a stunning web presence. You have the right to look as good as you can imagine. Professional tools of the day can create far more beautiful sites than in decades past, but the free web services are still stuck in the 90s. Or, if they have joined the new millenium, they ask to crowd your site with so many ads your visitors will be turned off before they even read your first sentence or see your first image.

The new web economy, embodied in hosting groups like UK web hosting only asks for a little bit of money each month. 600host and UK web hosting can give you everything you need and more. They stay on top of the latest in site building technology, and will respond to your queries promptly and courteously. Because free web hosting sites are squeezing every bit of money they can through the cracks, without actually asking you for any, they can take weeks to respond to a question you need answered in days, with rude remarks that are barely of any assistance. And then, when you want some clarification, you’ll be made to feel like an incompetent.

The sad truth of life is that nothing is truly free. Everything costs something - do you want to pay a small amount of cash each month for a stress-free web presence, or do you want to pay in nothing but large chunks of time spent arguing with incompetent customer service, emotional stress from not being able to have the website you want, and countless hours explaining to potential friends or clients, “oh, don’t mind the ads, just scroll down a few pages and you’ll get to my content.” 600host will offer you the former, and will do so with consummate professionalism. Don’t be swayed by offers of free. Sometimes, free just masks the price you’ll pay in spades, further down the line.

Andrew Davies
Operations Manager
http://www.600host.net