Website Hosting Best Prices for Beginners

Free Hosting is a great service offered by many different companies, including but not limited to:

• HubPages (of course)
• Weeble
• Blogster
• Blogger
• Xanga
• Tumblr
• LiveJournal
• Squarespace

I myself have a couple of favorites on that list. However, the last couple of weeks I've been doing a little thinking about whether or not to purchase my own domain. For me, I wanted to try it just for the sake of having a site that was "mine".com, which seems like it would be better found through a search engine. Here are a few reasons I found of owning your own domain.

• Security: for yourself and your customers ( if you have an online business)
• Storage Space: Many website hosting companies offer UNLIMITED amount of storage and bandwidth.
• Customer Service: With a free website hosting service, you get little or no customer service and if you come across a problem, most likely you'll find you are on your own, with pay website hosting you get excellent customer service with 24/7 Live Support ,you can call if you have any concern or problem.
• Low Cost: Many companies are having promotions, it's surprisingly not as expensive as you may think (and some people are receiving large sums of money this time of year to want to venture into buying a site.....)
• The Boom: There is a blog/site boom that is growing as more people are learning about the benefits and the potential to earn money through adsense, kontera and other advertising companies and/or affiliate companies.

With the last 2 in mind, if you have a "Free" site or blog that is very established, you should definitely consider moving it to a paid site so that you can protect your site name.

*Did you know that a popular blog can value up into the thousands and on occasion, tens of thousands in yearly income? Really want to start you blogging site, start your own blogs!

Choosing free web hosting is ideal for some people, but you should also look into cheap web hosting with free domain name. Protect your hard work.

Here are some of the top rated, and reviewed Hosting Sites I've come across. These are based on my opinion by reading other reviews, visiting the websites, researching the price, the popularity, features, guarantees, and also the look of the site. Appearance is what draws me in with anything. Each of these listed offers you UNLIMITED DISK SPACE and UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH!

Go Daddy: Right now you can purchase your domain for $1.99 for the first 3 months, and then less than $4 after that. Go Daddy is one of the very few that I found starts you off with $100 Ad Words credit. Most other sites offer $50, and some $25.

iPage: Right now you can get your website for $3.25 at iPage. Includes Unlimited Disk Space, Bandwidth, and Email. Free: Domain, Security Suite, Site-Building Tools, Online Store, Yahoo and Facebook Marketing Credits. iPage is also GREEN! Powered by 100% wind energy.

Fat Cow: This is the sister site for iPage and works just the same. However is a little higher at $3.67 a months to start. Fat Cow also is a green site powered by 100% wind energy. It uses wordress hosting and you are able to have both a website and a free blog. Fat Cow is a very attractive website also. One thing I really liked is that if you weren't ready to purchase a full site, but you want to reserve a name to build a site later, they offer you a small version site, they call it a "MINI MOO" in case you aren't ready for the whole cow. The price for this was only $5.

Host Gator: Part of the same company as HostMonster, so you can expect the same features. One of the other VERY FEW sites that offers $100 Ad Words credit, Host Gator allows you to start your website for less than $4, and you also get to try it risk free for 45 days. Here you will have all the tools you are likely to need to start your website at your access. One of the rare sites that offers pretty much EVERYTHING unlimited.

Blue Host: A little higher cost at around $7 a month, but worth it. Ranked on of the top sites to build with, there are no setup fees, includes free domain name, and get this ANYTIME MONEY BACK GUARANTEE. If you want privacy, it offers Whois domain privacy, unlimited parked domains, unlimited domains hosted. On and on and on are the benefits of using Blue Host.

Some other Website Hosting Companies that are cheap to get started:

• MyHosting
• HostClear
• IXWebhosting
• LunarPages
• CoolHandle

There are so many different companies to choose from, different features to suit anyone's needs whether you want to own your own website or you want to own your own blog title. The possibilities are unlimited. Always do your own research when trying to choose a site host. Always read the fine print, and always research your domain name before choosing one.