Would you like to totally cut out the cost of web hosting from your budget? You may think that this is one cost that you are unable to avoid paying but you would be wrong. I have managed to obtain free but quality web hosting for a number of years now just by using a common sense approach. This has saved me thousands of pounds during this period, money which I have been able to use to promote the websites.
So how do you go about obtaining this free web hosting? Well in a way it is by being a little bit cheeky! Around four years ago I noticed that there was a huge amount of people and companies offering a web design service. The market place was becoming saturated and it was becoming a cut throat business. There are opportunities to be had in these situations as people become ever eager to secure your business.
After sourcing a number of potential web design companies, who I thought (from their examples of previous work) could do a decent job; I decided to phone each of them up. I had a list of questions that I was going to ask them:
- How long do you think it will take you to complete the project?
- Will the site be search engine friendly?
- Am I able to contact your previous clients for a reference?
- Do you offer any form of web promotion?
- Would you be happy to offer a link from your sites homepage to my new site, as a way of promoting your work and also promoting my site?
- Would you be happy to host my new site on your server?
The majority of these questions are important however the last question, if answered in the positive, could save me a lot of money.
Give it a go, you will be amazed how many web design companies will agree to offering you a web design service with free web hosting
