So you want to start your own blog site do you?

Welcome to the club, do a free blog setup from word press blog or blogger most known name in web world for the free blog setups. These days it seems that almost everyone has a web site of some kind, and many more on way to be launched every day. After launching site what next? People whom so ever are having website has start put own articles (BLOG) what so ever he experienced till date in his area of capabilities. In It’s challenging enough to design a site and update it in very regular interval with interesting content for readers, but when all is set and done another challenge comes in front of – where to do Web Hosting?

A popular choice for numbers of webmasters, and even experienced ones, is to hire a free hosting plan with a company, those are already has international brand for web hosting such as Yahoo! Rediff, Geocities, Tripod and many more. We all know these are easy to setup and free to use, but they do have restrictions. Maximum free hosters don’t offer all useful features that paid web hosting service provider do such as FTP access, POP-SMTP, or your own personal domain name. Instead of that you’re jammed with minimal features and a generic URL such as www.freeyourwebsitehosting.com/yourdomainname. Here you are making a mistake, your are losing your website’s potential. Either free hosters require you to run banners or pop-up ads on your web site or they will exchange some cross links from your website to make it worth their while for an expensive service what you are getting absolutely free. All these banners, pop-ups and link exchange can prevent the user to view of your web page and ultimately this irritation will drive them visitors away from your website. Lastly, most free hosters have a daily restriction in the terms of bandwidth usage, upload-download usage, sending receiving mails,  so if suppose your websites attracts lot of traffic you’ll exceed your allotted quota and your website will be temporarily disabled. Overall I would recommend free web hosters for only those people that are new to web hosting and want to experience something that how it works. I’d also recommend them for web sites that is going to only informative web sites and don’t plan to produce any revenue from it host with free hosters, but if a web sites that is although is the individual property and personal in nature as well as web sites going produce huge amount of revenues from it don’t host with free web hosters.

Now seriously think and move towards the better side – paid web hosting. Web hosting companies that charge money for their verity of services are on the Internet, and feature a wide collection of hosting packages at various price segments. Let’s begin with so called “budget” The web hosters, who claim to offer you the world for only $1 per month. Having used numerous such companies I feel I must tell you to proceed with caution here, as these companies aren’t all that they are cracked up to be. Many claim to offer 24/7 e-mail support, which in my experience turned out to be 0/0 e-mail support. My e-mails were either never answered or answered a week after I sent them. Even when I got a response it was generic in nature and completely unhelpful. Also, expect frequent outages with these budget web hosts as they rarely even have their own web servers – often they are reselling space on someone else’s web servers over which they have no control. One budget web host I used went down unexpectedly for 6 days, and they didn’t even bother to notify their customers. As a result, my web site was down for 6 days and I lost most of my visitors as well as my hard-earned search engine rankings. Lesson learned: if the reliability and success of your web site is important to you, budget web hosting might not be the answer. However, this is not to say that all budget web hosters are bad – 1dollarhosting.com is one of the leaders in the budget web hosting arena and has quite a good reputation.

Blogging is an reduction of “web-logging”. The simplest definition of a blog is that it is an online log that is organized in reverse chronological order. It comprises of comments, declarations, links, or anything else of interest to the blog writers.

You’ll have to only keep two things in mind,

1. Basic requirements of starting your own blog.
2. You need software to run a blog and a place on the Internet to host your blog.

Taking into consideration the above mentioned two factors, there can be four categories of blogs:

1. Free Webhosting + Free Software
2. Paid Webhosting  + Free Software
3. Paid Webhosting including Price of Software
4. Paid Webhosting + Paid Software

Descriptions for all four options along with their pros and cons are here;

We have also given recommendations regarding the suitability of these options.

1. Free Webhosting + Free Software

Here you pay neither for the software nor for the website hosting. This is a completely free way of blogging

But there are some drawbacks of this system. It offers very few features as compared to the paid services. You cannot post pictures online or design your preferred look for your site.

The companies that provide free software and free domain hosting frequently place a banner immediately above your site. This detracts the visitors from the look of your site. You also have no discretion over the content of the advertisements.

The key advantage of this system is that it is absolutely free. This option is extremely useful for a newcomer who would not like to pay anything, since he/she can try this method to find if they are really interested in blogging.

2. Free Software + Paid Webhosting

This option provides you free software but you will have to pay for the domain hosting.

There is a cost factor involved in this option. Minimum cost of hosting would be INR700-1100 & $14-20 per year. The annual registration fee for domain name would be INR450 & $9 per year for (.com, .co.in, .net domains).

This system will let you do certain things that you were unable to do with the free one. Here, you can modify the look of your site and you can also post pictures. But free software’s have fewer features than paid ones.

This option is highly recommended because by just paying the cost of virtual hosting and domain registration, you can avail great features and flexibility.

3. Paid Webhosting including Price of Software

This is a subscription-based option. There are ongoing costs involved in this option.

Apart from customizing the look of your site and posting photographs online, you will be able to use a software that provides more features than a free one.

This option is recommended for people who do not want to be troubled with virtual hosting and software installation issues. This is the easiest possible solution. It offers great features but at a reasonably high price.

4. Paid Webhosting + Paid Software

This option provides you paid software and paid domain hosting.

The cost of the domain hosting ranges from $5 to $10 per month while the cost of the software would be at least $45-100$ (one-time cost).

This option gives you great amount of flexibility. You can select your own domain name and have feature-rich blogging software.

This option is highly recommended for businesses since the cost is not a major consideration.

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