| While looking for free web hosting for your small | | | | Transmission Protocol and allows you to transfer |
| business you need to keep the following things in | | | | large files via a server. This isn't a big deal if you |
| mind. | | | | don't do a lot of file transfers but if you plan on |
| Advertising: Just about all free web hosts will | | | | sending and receiving lots of images or video files |
| impose advertising on your site. The host does | | | | this is something you need to be aware of. |
| this to recover the costs of running the hardware | | | | Stability and Reliability: This is an important factor |
| and providing the bandwidth for your site. | | | | to look at. Unless you don't mind you site going |
| Web Space: Most free small business web hosting | | | | down or off-line all the time you need to find out |
| has very limited space. You will be lucky if you | | | | what the free small business web host provider |
| find a free host that offers more than 20MB of | | | | "down time" is. If it is anything more than 99% I |
| disk space. This isn't such a bad thing as most | | | | do not recommend using this provider. |
| sites are under 5MB in size. A 5MB site can be up | | | | Bandwidth: To have enough bandwidth to run a |
| to 200 pages of html code but beware, if you | | | | small business website you need about 1-3GB of |
| site contains heavy graphics, music or video this | | | | monthly bandwidth. Anything less than 1GB and |
| limited free space will run out very quickly. | | | | the most you will be running on it will be a |
| FTP: Some small business web hosts do not | | | | personal webpage or one for the local church. |
| provide FTP access. FTP stands for File | | | | |