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WEBHOSTING
ARTICLESPosting web pages free of charge
Author: Jason Shpik
It’s called free Web hosting. You may find it’s the fastest and cheapest way to
get your message out there.
If you’re one of the growing number of people who publishes Web pages or cobbles
together Web sites, you’ve probably learned one lesson: You can’t get enough
space for your content. Because, let’s face it, with Java, graphics, and multimedia
content, even a small Web site can eat up megabytes of storage.
But getting that extra space can be difficult for several reasons. Sometimes you need a
cheap place to hang your hat online. Maybe you can’t afford full service from your
Internet Service Provider (ISP). Or, maybe you need a way to mirror your Web site cheaply.
There’s a way to dolt that costs you nothing. It’s called free Web hosting. Over
the last couple of years, services that let you post Web pages free of charge have been
springing up all across the World Wide Web.
Free Web hosting has a lot going for it. The most important aspect is the cost. How else
can you get a place to dump your Web pages without paying a cent? A free hosting service
is perfect for someone who can’t afford a full-fledged Internet account or who
accesses the Web using a public terminal or a FreeNet. Depending on the service you
choose, you can get anywhere from 3 to 35 MB of storage space. Many ISPs don’t offer
that much. If they do, the extra space can get quite expensive.
Of course, there’s the convenience of it all. You can do just about everything you
need to with a free Web hosting service. Most give you access to an online HTML editor and
to some sort of file management tool. While the latter allows you to delete or rename
files, but generally little else, the HTML editors are quite useful. They range from a
simple workspace into which you type your code and content, to editors that insert HTML
tags with a mouse click, to fully-fledged graphical tools that let you build pages by
pointing and clicking.
Best of all, transferring your files from your computer to any free hosting service is
easy. Most have an interface for transferring files. Or, you can use good old-fashioned
FTP to move your files around. There’s no learning curve for experienced Web users.
You simply do as you have always done.
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