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I personally host two business websites on officelive.com
The free sites offer some pretty good services and you can get a real domain name with a .com, .net or .org address and company branded email and stuff like that. And I really like how easy it is to build a website with their service.
The only real downfall that I can see with it is that as your business grows it will need more services for your site. You will have to eventually pay to get all the bells and whistles. When that happened for our first business site, we actually migrated away from the officelive and went with lowesthosting.com for $5/month. We have been very happy with them. When our other two sites outgrow the officelive services we will likely migrate those two sites to lowesthosting.com also.
Hope this helps
I am not really sure about this. Anything for free comes with very little storage space and bandwidth and often contains lots of advertisements & annoying pop-ups that are likely to drive your visitors away. I had a free website once that I loved through lycos.com but one day it randomly got deleted (such is the nature of free things!). Also free websites are likely to not have very high rankings in the search engine…and the difference between the customer service of paid and free websites is night and day.
If you want a business website I suggest you put down a small fee and get something reliable such as bluehost.com, hostgator.com or bravenet.com. That is, if you want your business to prosper!
If you honestly don’t have money right now, you can try starting out advertising your business on wordpress.com which is a blog with many free features. There are many themes/templates available and it can look quite professional for something that is free!
akinghost.com offers dot coms at $7.49 a year. You also get full hosting for one year plus all the tools needed to build your site. I recently (Last Sunday) bought 2 sites for a total of $16.48 (included sales tax). I got all this with each domain I bought for a full year! In return, their advert is displayed on my site and absolutely no pop-ups. You can get rid of the advert if you pay $3.99 per month for your hosting. Hosting is a minimum of 2 months only, not 12 or 24 months like some other sites.
You can choose between Linux and Windows
Domain Names
.COMs starting at $7.49!*
FREE with every domain:
• FREE! Blog
• FREE! Hosting
• FREE! Complete Email
• FREE! Forwarding / Masking
• FREE! Change of Registration
• FREE! Starter Web Page
• FREE! "For Sale"/ Parked Page
• FREE! Domain Name Locking
• FREE! Total DNS Control
Spacewise, I have this:
MySQL Databases: 10 Available
Bandwidth Allotment: 300,000 MB
Disk Space Allotment: 10,000 MB
There is 24 hour support too and an auto website builder.
Definitely a fantastic start. I like it.
By the way there are NO pop-ups, just a single ad, kinda like about.com has.