Web Hosts
Finding A Web HostWritten By: Art
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A good web host should have the following qualities:
A site that has broken links and images wouldn't be a very good web host.
Now, there are four popular web hosts. Freewebs, Awardspace, Freehostia, and BraveHost. Each web host has flaws and strengths.
Freewebs
Freewebs is a good web host for beginners. You can build your website quickly, and if your knowledge of HTML is low, you can edit using a visual editor. Or if you prefer, you can also use an HTML editor. Freewebs is also handy because they display your pages all at once, so you don't have to click many layers of files to find the page you want. But, this may also be inconvenient when you have a lot of pages. Freewebs is a free host, but a really bad quality is their attempts to make money. Their actual site has ads, and Freewebs sometimes adds ads without letting people know, like when they added the blue bar ad on the bottom on all the pages. Freewebs sometimes has downtime, but downtimes are pretty rare, and only last a few hours. Overall, Freewebs is an average web host, ideal for beginners. But if you feel that you're ready to step up to a better web host, you should move to either Awardspace, or Freehostia.
Awardspace
Awardspace is a very good web host. Aqua Neo is hosted by Awardspace. However, Awardspace can be difficult for beginners. Awardspace only has an HTML editor, so your knowledge of HTML should be pretty high. Awardspace may be hard to navigate. It is difficult to edit your website's pages without clicking at least 3 times. Awardspace is a free host. If you choose the Free Package, your will get 200 MB of disk space. (That's a lot, Aqua Neo takes up less than 5 MB!) That means that you can have almost unlimited pages. Awardspace does have downtimes, and lately they have been pretty often, and the worst of it is that they rarely post on the homepage of their website when they will have a maintenance. Also, Awardspace's server speed isn't very fast. Overall, Awardspace is a good host.
Freehostia
Freehostia is basically the same as Awardspace - very useful. But Freehostia is even better than Awardspace - believe it or not. True, Awardspace is more popular, and we are hosted by them, but if I had a choice to transfer our site to Freehostia, I would definitely take the opportunity. Freehostia's navigation panel is much more simple to use, they have less downtime, and their server speed is much faster than Awardspace's. An up is that you also get custom 404 error pages if you use Freehostia. Freehostia's cPanel also has much less ads than Awardspace does. All in all, Freehostia is an excellent free web host.
BraveNet
BraveNet is a very useful web host. However, if you choose the Free Package, ads will be placed on your website. These ads are flashy and quite large... And BraveNet sometimes has downtime. Sometimes, it can be up to a day long. Other than that, BraveNet is a good website host. It offers many tools such as guestbooks, polls, forums, blogs, and journals, which can some in useful. BraveNet also has a visual editor, like Freewebs. BraveNet's page editing navigation is also easy and convenient. I used BraveNet, but only for a short time. Overall, BraveNet is a fine host.
Now that you have some background info, you can make your pick of your web host. Below, I ranked the web hosts. This is just my thought, however. Your opinion comes first!
I hope that this guide helped you find a reliable web host! If you have any questions, comments, corrections, or concerns, just e-mail me: aqua.neo.admin@gmail.com.
-Art