| To get started with your own website or blog, | | | | fun or putting websites together as a hobby or |
| whether you are using your own dedicated and | | | | for a charitable cause where keeping costs very |
| registered domain name or a 3rd party domain, | | | | low are important then perhaps this is a choice |
| you need to select the best hosting package to | | | | that may work for you. The down sides of free |
| suit your requirements. | | | | web hosting are that, you will probably have to |
| First decision to make is what type of package | | | | live with the host's adverts on your site, you will |
| do you want, there are 3 main options and a few | | | | be sharing with loads of other people and fighting |
| options that fall into a little bit of a grey area. But | | | | for limited resources, you could experience lots of |
| for this article we will stick to the main options: | | | | down time and the technical support is liable to be |
| * Free Hosting | | | | non-existent, the hosts domain name will also |
| * Shared Web Hosting | | | | form part of your domain name. But hey if none |
| * Dedicated Web Hosting | | | | of this matters to you then this could be the |
| Free Web Hosting | | | | choice for you. |
| Not always a bad choice, if you are blogging for | | | | |