You’d be amazed the number of people who search for “free” web hosting for their small business on the Internet.

The simple fact of the matter is that, as you’ll see in the other articles on this site, with web hosting you really get what you pay for.

Free web hosting accounts are free for a reason.

Generally you can’t use your own domain name (which is essential for a professional image), your account is severely limited so you won’t be able to do half the things you actually want to, support will be non-existant and worst of all is the advertising.

They will likely plaster your site with banner ads and other annoyances to your visitors instantly branding you an amateur and someone not to do business with.

Or they might sell your email address to spammers who will hit you constantly with adverts for Viagra and all manner of other things you don’t want.

Look, the point here is that free web hosting is never free.

They’ll always get their money out of you somehow and assuming otherwise is just madness.

Why would they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars setting up a web hosting company only to give away everything free?!

The moral here is to be willing to “spend money to make money”.

“Free” in web hosting terms = crap.

So go and spend $20-30 setting yourself up properly with a web hosting company for your small business who know what they’re doing. You’ll be glad you did…