Web Hosting for Personal Sites

Unlike mission-critical e-commerce sites, personal or hobby sites do not require complex or demanding tasks. Many individuals want a site to display a hobby or maybe just a family based site with pictures and news. If you are planning a site with just pictures and text, free hosting can be a good solution. The accessibility to free web hosting for personal sites makes creating a home page a simple and fun family project.

Pictures and text take up very little room and a service offering 2-5 megs is more than enough.

If you are planning to be like me and hosting large sized files than you will need to get one of the very few services that offers high storage space.

Free hosting

You will almost certainly have to put up with some ads on your site, cannot expect too much in the way of support and there will usually be restrictions on using scripts, on bandwidth and on disk space.

Budget hosting

Individuals and hobbyists can opt to select low-cost solutions that allow them to experiment with Internet technology without making a demanding or expensive commitment.