I started out hosting my first website for free with DotEasy. It is a pretty decent site with a lot of add-ons & all you have to pay is a flat yearly fee for the domain. It has no banners and no ads promoting their site on your webpage (unlike the old Geocities community of pages). It also had 100MB of space available (I only needed maybe 2MB for my page at the time). It was awesome while I just had the one domain.
When I decided to branch out and purchase some more domain names, I thought I could make use of the space I had at DotEasy. This is easily done and you can use URL forwarding to redirect your new domain users to the actual location of your page on the net. This worked well for a while, but I really wanted to go above and beyond with my new sites & make use of PHP and MySQL databases etc.
My extensive search for a great hosting site led me to Hostmonster.com.
Hostmonster had a number of features that made the $6.95/month cost worth it. (By the way there is a special promo of $5.95/month right now through this link, so hurry.)
Hostmonster offers:
Free Domain Name or Domain Transfer (when you sign up you get a new domain)
Free 1 Click Installer For Over 50 Scripts (eg shopping carts, forums, blogs etc)
Free SiteBuilder w/Templates
99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee
$25 Free Yahoo Credits
$50 Free Google Credits (for use with Adwords)
That’s not even mentioning the main reason for my signing up with them – an unlimited number of domains could be hosted from the one account, unlimited web space & unlimited site bandwidth! I’ve been using it for about 4 months now and highly recommend it.
