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Hey Everyone

Looking for some straight answers here regarding free web hosting. I just need a couple of static pages with background images, home page, details page and contact. Nothing fancy or animated. I just need a presence on the web for business.

I currently do not have a domain name so I would prefer a host that can also provide me with one.

Questions
1. Where to go? Which host? I assume a UK based host would be best? I'm obviously looking for somewhere reliable, and that has a wizard or something to create a simple website in a language that is viewable to the large majority of internet users.

2. I hear a lot about download limits or something. Is this a limit that is imposed on visitors to the website? Does the limit just apply to content that is actually copied and downloaded to the visitor's computer? Or does it apply to the general content of the site? ie: if I get a million visitors (hypothetically) will the site be offline until the limit is reset because they have all downloaded a high res background image?

Forgive the stupidity of these questions. I would appreciate some straight answers to them and maybe a link or two to a recommended site. This is an area of computing I have just never explored before now.

Kind Regards
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Reply to Vitamin-D

http://www.webs.com/

Reply to silverliquicity

1. I used these guys for a few years. Good service, very cheap and lovely control panel (cPanel).

Its worth the £12 or £13 a year just to avoid ads.

2. Its called bandwidth. The site I linked to offers 3gb, 10gb or 100gb options.

It works like so;
User opens your site, all the content which is stored at the host is downloaded to the user. When a user visits another page any new (if caching is enabled in there browser) contented is downloaded and so on until the user exits the site.

The average page without images is something like 20kb, with general icons, etc your talking 200kb to 500kb.

Example

Sets say your layout is 500kb and the content of each page is just text at 100kb (better to over estimate).
If they visit 10 unique pages the total download (bandwidth) usage of the user will be 1500kb, (500kb)+(10*100kb).

If you had the 3gb (3,000,000kb using the lowest possible value) per month hosting you could have 2000 users viewing 10 pages per month, thats 65 users per day.

Of course if you have a minimalistic site you could cope with triple the amount and on the flip site hosting a few videos could mean only 10 or 20 users would fill the quota.

As for what happens when you reach your bandwidth usage it depends on the hosting site.

Message edited by joedastudd on 01-24-2012 at 02:30:25 PM

Reply to joedastudd

Thank's for the quick response. I can assume that since all pricing is in dollars, that this is an American based host? That being the case, are there any speed or visibility implications for UK users?

Reply to Vitamin-D

Joe - excellent advice. Exactly what I was looking for. Many thanks

Reply to Vitamin-D

Quick question -as I browse the site templates on www.webs.com- After choosing a template, can I upload my own background image? and choose colours etc?

Reply to Vitamin-D

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Reply to alsg79

Hi

I own computer companies in the UK.. we have websites....we PAY for...

This is for a business for you so free isnt an option....if you pay for hosting your sites you get RELIABILITY...

Your website should make you money so dont scrimp on it....

As the Americans say...."There aint no such thing as a free lunch"

If you think there is, you wont be in business long...

All the best Brett

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