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Paid or Free Web Hosting For Your Website?

Should you spend some money to get a web hosting solution for your business or get one for free? It all depends what is you main motive of setting up a website?

Are you setting up a website for business, for hobby, or simply just for the fun out of it? If you are setting up a website for something that does not have high traffic, a free web hosting plan would be something perfect for you, it provides the basics features needed to set up and maintain the website.

If you are setting up a website for business, a free web host is definitely something you will not consider hosting your website with. Free web hosts has many limitations, space, bandwidth, uptime. As its free, Advertisements often infest your website which would make potential customers never return due to the unprofessional layout.

Nowadays the cost for web hosting services is very reasonable, and is as low as less than USD5 per month.

Bandwidth is one of the most important element for considerations when picking a web host. The bandwidth that a web site needs is in download bandwidth. This is how much bandwidth the site has available on a monthly basis for users. If this bandwidth ends before the month runs out, your website is inaccessible to anybody that wants to surf it.

An efficient web host should have a bandwidth of at least 45-50 mbps. Another good indicator is to ask how much of the available bandwidth of the web host is currently in used. The percentage of a good bandwidth should be around 30% at normal times and around 65%.

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