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It is a very common question why
should one purchase a domain name when there are so many websites that
offer free sub-domain name and hosting? There are many advantages of
paid domain than having free sub domain and hosting for your websites
not only for firms, companies, organizations and professional but also
for those who are having websites to show their work or wish to put
forward their views to the public.
1) Using free web space means
that you are not paying for it; hence it does not give a good
impression of your company or your professional website. Rather it
gives a, to some extent, negative impression. Being a firm,
organization or professional, you cannot afford to give a bad
impression even if you are starting your business or profession. It
does not matter whether you are a small business company, non profit
organization or just a new entrant of a profession, you cannot give
impression to your potential customers, clients and suppliers that you
are unable to afford to have your own domain and hosting, especially
when it is so
cheap in these days. So you need
to have your own domain name and paid hosting for your website to give
a right impression about you and your company.
2) You do not get free sub domain
and hosting for your websites unless you agree to the terms of service
of the service provider to run their advertisements. No need to say
that they take the best top most place to run advertisements, which
spoils the appearance of your website. You as a company or a
professional would not like it that your website loses its appearance
because appearance of your websites tells a lot about you and your
firm.
3) By uploading your websites on
free servers, you are indirectly source of generating income for them.
You are using so much energy to popularize your website so why not
your effort brings some monetary rewards directly to you, which, at
least, meet some expenses of your paid domain name and hosting. Yes it
is possible to make money through third party advertisements provided
you have your own paid domain name and hosting. You do not need to go
to find customers who are interested to run advertisement on your
website; what you need to just sign online registration with the
companies who pay you on ‘per click’ basis. Remember: these companies
do not allow you to run pay per click advertisements on free servers.
You have to have your own paid domain name and hosting to sign up such
online agreements. So if you have your own domain name and hosting,
you can make around $20-50 per year even without putting a lot of
efforts. Of course, you can make more money if your idea is good and
able to generate high traffic on your website.
4) There are many online
companies that open a store on your website only if you have your own
domain name and hosting. They will process the credit cards and pay
you whatever you earn through your website. Most of the companies even
allow you to set your own price and margin of profit. They will
provide you back-end support but your customers will never know that
you are not owner of the store or service. This is very different to
be an affiliate. This is not possible if you are running your website
on the server of free hosting companies.
4) Most of free sub-domain
providers do not facilitate you to run interactive websites. Except a
few, no free hosting companies give you access to have SQL database,
which means you cannot implement your ideas freely. Even you might not
be able to upload audio and video files if you are using free hosting
services. Frankly speaking, you have very limited options to run a
sophisticated websites. Moreover, you might need to look for other
free service providers for the options such as a guest book, email
account, email-forms, discussion board, support tickets etc., which
means that your website must connect with more than one server that
will increase loading time of your website. Mind it, people do not
have so much time to wait to see your website if it is not appeared
within a few seconds. See our
hosting features that give you access
to almost everything that a professional website needs.
5) Generally free hosting
services do not give you access to options like FTP and visitors
statistics. FTP access is very important because it is easy to upload,
download and delete web pages from your administration area. It is
also important to have access to statistics so that you know how many
visitors and from where they are coming from. It tells you if you are
really hitting your target market or not. It tells a rate of visit per
day, month and year. It informs you about the keywords that are being
used to find your websites through search engines and web directories.
Just having a visitors counter does not reveal the whole story.
6) Free hosting companies do not
allow you to have sub-domains. Sub-domains are different than having
webpage extensions. Sub domains are important if you want to
differentiate between two websites. You can set separate password and
ftp access to each sub-domains from your main domain. We give this
facility even if you purchase a 50 MB disk space from us.
7) Free service providers
generally do not provide you email address that is directly associated
with your sub-domain. Even if they provide, it will not be more than
one email account. With paid domain hosting you have access to create
more than one email account, which is very important. By using
forwarding option, you can bring all emails from all accounts to one
email account.
8) Having your web space in
“groups” is worse than to have free sub-domain. The reason is that
that these groups demand from the visitors to become a member before
accessing the group website, which many people do not like. It means
that a large number of people will never know that you exist on the
internet. If you are spending so much of your time on the group, you
won’t like to miss visitors. Even if you have web pages for fun, still
you want to have maximum visitors to view your website and your
effort.
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