Free web hosting is the most basic web hosting service that you can obtain and there are many free hosting companies that are available on the internet. We can easily google to find one.

Free hosting services are usually financed by advertisements on web sites that are hosted but paid website hosting will have no advertisements.

Since it is free, the web hosting services are extremely limited. If you get a free hosting service you will have ads on the top and the bottom of your web-site and depending on what your web-site is all about, it may not fit at all but for people starting out on the internet it may be the best option if you don’t have a lot of traffic or just a small site.

Besides that, the type of web domain that you receive when you get a free web hosting is a subdomain with the name that you pick (yourname.webhost.com) or a name in a directory (yourname.webhost.com). For example, if the name of your free host is freestanding.com,
Then your web domain would be yourbusiness.freestanding.com.

Obviously this will be not the case in a paid hosting service where you have to purchase your own domain or you might get a free domain as part of your hosting package.

As stated before, if you are a novice, free website hosting is the type of account that you would probably want to get but there are some shortcomings to free web hosting if you are looking for more options on the account.

First, many free hosting accounts do not support database management or what you would call in simple terms, putting data structures on the free web host side of their server. Databases are usually used for online data retrieval routines. Many of these free web hosting sites do not support a common package called mySQL which allows you to program queries into your web sites. So, you would not be able to set up a blog under a free hosting account.

They also don’t support multiple e-mail accounts. Most free web hosting service only gives you one email account and it’s usually a web based internet account. The host does not include modules for Flash Programming, PHP and Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHMTL).

However there is a free website hosting service which almost matches the features which are offered by a paid website hosting service.

The 000webhost.com offers free cPanel Web Hosting with PHP5/Mysql support and absolutely no advertising.
They can offer you a free web hosting package packed with advanced features for hosting & building professional dynamic websites. They provide secure free web space with all the web hosting tools you could possibly ever need.

Their package includes:
- 350 MB of Disk Space, 100 GB Bandwidth
- Host your own domain (http://www.yourdomain.com) or use their free Subdomain
- cPanel Powered Hosting (you will love it)
- Over 500 website templates ready to download
- Easy to use website builder
- Free POP3 Email Box with Webmail access
- FTP and Web based File Manager
- PHP, MySQL, Perl, CGI, Ruby.
- And many more..

This free hosting service will be a good start especially for those who wish to start their own blog under their own domain. For more info visit 000webhost.com.

To learn how to create a wordpress blog using this free hosting, please read free wordpress blog hosting.

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2 years back when I searched for a malaysia based web hosting service provider, I found it difficult to find one. Not many Malaysia based web hosting service was available at that time. But things have changed radically today. There are so many of these web hosting service provider who are based in Malaysia. If you type “malaysia web hosting” in Yahoo, you can see a long list of such service providers. Now, you might ask why am I looking for a Malaysia based web hosting service provider. Well I’ve a few reasons of my own to do so. They are:

1) I found that Malaysia based web hosting service provider offer smaller sized web hosting plan compared to the giants in this industry

2) These smaller sized hosting plan often meet our need especially if we are just about to start a website. The price is much cheaper for our little requirement.

3) Furthermore, the price denomination is often in “RM” which eliminates the task of converting “$” to our currency “RM”

3) Besides that, if there are any technical errors, it cheaper and easier to call the service provider since they are based in Malaysia.

For those who are on the same ‘frequency of thought’ as mine and considering to purchase a web hosting service from a Malaysian provider, I have a good news. Once a week, ‘Myonlinestreet.com’ will make a review of a Malaysia based web server hosting provider and post it here. It will serve as a simple guidance in your buying decision.

The first on our list is easynet-interactive.com. This is the host of “Myonlinestreet.com”.

Easynet-interactive only offers Linux web hosting plans. Altogether they offer 6 shared hosting plans ranging from RM 90 to RM 490 per year. All their plans are typically the same except for the amount of disk space, monthly bandwidth and the number of domain allowed to be hosted which is more for a higher priced plan. The Xcess plan which is the cheapest is already good enough to start a blog like this one.

All their plan include unlimited mail accounts, and mysql database. They also have control panel features for easy administration of account besides having the fantastico program for easy and automatic installation of selected scripts such as blog platforms like wordpress, customer relationship scripts, ecommerce scripts, discussion board scripts and many more. This means, even when you choose the cheapest plan you will get all this. Only your disk space and monthly bandwidth is constrained. You can visit the site Easynet-interactive.com to get more info.

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