Lunarpages - The Advantages of Cheap Web Hosting

The Advantages of Cheap Web Hosting

For a personal website, many customers are used to free web hosting. Because they are used to the layout, customization, templates, and other services offered by free web hosting sites, they are scared to move into the paid web hosting realm. But switching from free hosting to cheap web hosting doesn’t have to be a large effort and it can be in fact a lot of fun.

Besides that, there are a ton of advantages for cheap web hosting that you should consider.

No Banner Advertisement!

The biggest drawback for many people in free web hosting is that you have to display banner ads so that the free hosting company can earn money. The banner advertisement is, in fact, how free hosting companies stay in business – advertisers pay to have their ads listed on every page.

Purchasing cheap web hosting from Lunarpages gives you the added value of a banner-free website! Not only does this make your site look more professional but you don’t have to worry about adult or competitor websites showing up on top of your site.

Free Domain Name

Have you always wanted to have yourname.com? In free web hosting, you’re always given yourname.somebodyelse.com or somebodyelse.com/yourname. These subdomains are not only unprofessional but they’re hard to remember.

One of the coolest things about getting your first personal website is that you can choose any domain name in the world to use for your website! So if yourname.com is available, we will register it for free for you and it’s yours to keep forever. You can also add additional domain names, create your own subdomains (yourblog.yourname.com), and have multiple forwarding domains (yourname.com and yourname.net both go to the same website). There are a great number of things you can do once you learn more about the different types of domains available.

Free Email Hosting

Have you always wanted yourname@yourdomain.com? Free web hosts don’t offer email addresses for the most part, but Lunarpages offers unlimited email accounts, so you can create as many email addresses as you’d like. One could be for personal correspondence, while another is for information on your website and yet another for professional correspondence. The best part is that if you’re already accustomed to using Yahoo, AOL, Gmail, or other mail services, you can have your mail forwarded to those services, even if the contact is emailing you@yourdomain.com.

Full Customization

You may not be good at HTML or CSS now, but what if in a couple years you decide to learn these web technologies? Free web hosting companies do not allow much in the way of customization, and so inserting HTML or CSS code won’t work in their services.

Besides website customization, you can also add features that will never be available to free hosting accounts, like Shopping Carts, Blogs, Forums, Wikis, Chatrooms, and more! With Lunarpages, we provide you with Fantastico Script Library as well as Web Design Software and Templates to make your designing process as easy as possible.

In the end, if you weigh the pros and cons of free and paid web hosting services, you’ll find that for around 25 cents/day you get so much more than a free service can offer.