If you would like a free host to upload your images to you dont even need to go and setup a free hosting account anywhere.

There are absolutely loads of free picture hosts around where you can upload one image or literally hundreds and then link to the images from your website.

With using a free image hosting service there is the fact that you dont have so much control over where the images are as you would if you had a web hosting account, and theres always the chance that the images could be deleted from the free host, especially if the images are not acceptable for some reason, this could leave you with broken image links on your website, but the plus side of using a free picture host is that theres usually no limits on space and your not having to pay for the hosting.

Most of the free picture hosting services will provide you with a variety of links after the upload has completed with options of direct links, thumbnail links and forum ready links.

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No Comments » Published October 27, 2008

Quite often i read of people looking for web hosting and they will ask for recommendations on what is available to them but they sometimes are unsure of what they need themselves, and while in this position they can risk being sold a web hosting plan that they dont need and with features that they simply wont use.

If you can prepare yourself enough so that you know what type of server you will need, for example Linux or Windows, and know whether you need database use and and specific programming languages that may be used you can then give a better idea to the web hosting companies if you have questions to ask them.

You dont need to be an expert or to know everything inside out about your website and some of the hosting packages, but by knowing what you are looking for you can find a hosting plan most suitable to you, it will give you more confidence when dealing with the hosting companies and can prevent you from being lead to believe that you need a much larger or feature bloated web hosting plan than neccessary.

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No Comments » Published October 23, 2008

Sometimes i will read of someone looking for a web hosting package and they will be specifying an amount of monthly traffic or daily traffic that they expect to receive at their website.

If the website is already established and they know that they are actually receiving this amount of traffic then thats fine, as they know what they need from a web host if they are possibly looking at transferring the website to a different web host.

But if they are launching a brand new website and have not used newspaper, magazine or tv exposure as a part of their marketing plan then its often unlikely that the website will explode with popularity as marketing efforts on the internet take a while to start showing as actual use of your website.

We all hope for plenty of visitors and heavy use of a new website and its natural to be excited about your latest project but often a website will not hit its 5,000 or 10,000 visitors a day expectation, at least not in the early days.

This is where you can benefit from saving at your webhost and taking a package from them that you can grow and upgrade as you need it.

Ive started up new websites myself, taken a smaller package, looked at it and worried for a moment that i may run out of space quickly but more often than not i wont face that problem.

If you work on multiple websites then your time is spread throughout your various projects, even if you have people working for you or are part of a partnership.

It can take a while to build up a new website, adding content and promoting it, so you will often get by just fine with a smaller amount of available disk space than you first thought.

Keep this in mind when beginning new websites, as long as you can upgrade when you need extra space and maybe extra available bandwidth, databases etc, you will be fine and find yourself only paying for what you need.

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No Comments » Published October 21, 2008