| Not to many years ago free hosting was thought | | | | the shift in the web hosting business itself from a |
| of as the poor mans way of putting a web site | | | | view of hosting as a premium product to one |
| up on the Internet. For many the search for a | | | | viewed as a commodity. This shift was |
| quality web host was an ongoing weekly trek | | | | precipitated by the large packages that began |
| through hundreds of fly by night "hosts" who | | | | showing up a few years ago at insanely low |
| aspired to make themselves rich by providing | | | | prices. As the price of hosting packages slowly |
| hosting to the masses at no apparent cost. | | | | dropped and storage and bandwidth increased the |
| However, the problem came about for many of | | | | profit margins began to shrink to all time lows. |
| these would be free web hosting providers as | | | | It was for this reason that many hosts who at |
| they were unable to turn a profit and quickly | | | | one time simply provided their customers with |
| folded under the financial pressures that come | | | | quality web hosting only began to offer secondary |
| with dedicated servers. | | | | products such as domain names, marketing tools |
| Many other free web hosts folded due to legal | | | | and many other services that benefited the |
| matters after allowing their customers to host | | | | customer, but became the main profit drivers for |
| web sites that contained illegal material of one | | | | many companies. |
| type or another. The free web hosts were a | | | | The benefit for those that enjoy or need free |
| popular haunt of the scam artists who would put | | | | web hosting is the quality of service that is now |
| up sites that looked almost identical to popular | | | | being provided. No longer do you have to worry if |
| sites such as PayPal with only one intention: | | | | your host will be around when you wake up |
| Stealing your Information. | | | | tomorrow. Of course you still need to be wary of |
| These days though things are beginning to change. | | | | many free hosts, but with large providers such as |
| Large hosting providers have begun to look at | | | | GoDaddy and Doteasy providing quality free |
| free hosting services as a way to drive additional | | | | hosting the quality has gotten better. For many |
| future revenue. GoDaddy for example provides all | | | | this means they can now learn how to properly |
| their domain name purchasers with a free hosting | | | | setup a web site without the additional costs of |
| account with other add on products when they | | | | hosting. |
| purchase a domain name. | | | | Free hosting has taken a step to a new level and |
| Most of this change has been brought about by | | | | it is about time. |