{"id":7227,"date":"2025-06-26T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/?p=7227"},"modified":"2025-07-28T20:45:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:45:26","slug":"the-danger-of-using-a-free-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/uncategorized\/the-danger-of-using-a-free-website\/","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Using a Free Website"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
\"Attila's<\/a><\/td>\n\"Web<\/a><\/td>\n\"Network<\/a><\/td>\n\"See<\/a><\/td>\n\"See<\/a><\/td>\n\"See<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

O<\/span>hhh, they look so good. And lucrative. And they are – for now. Shortcomings? Just wait till they show up and you have to open your wallet to get around them. What short comings you ask? What you see below is from our experience. Not some pie in the sky situations that might develop. We dealt with these shortcomings, paying the price ourselves.<\/p>\n

One: Your web address, your universal resource locator, will be funky. Maybe something like this: YourName-dot-HostingCompany-dot-com. Try taking that with you when you need to move up to a serious hosting company. You can\u2019t. Why should you care? Because your customers and clients have your address at YourName-dot-HostingCompany-dot-com. And that name, my friend, when you move on, won\u2019t point to your new address.<\/p>\n

Two: Reduced functionality. From this, we speak with firsthand experience with two clients.<\/p>\n

First client <\/strong>wanted a page added. No problem. We created and uploaded it. Then, the message showed up that the page was too long. The client could not afford the upgrade, so we gave them – at our expense – space on our web master\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

Second client<\/strong> wanted a year book placed on their web space. We photographed it, edited the photos, and wrote the HTML to make it look pretty. Problem was, don\u2019t you know?, that its file size was too large. Again, too expensive for the client, so that too, ended up on our web space, free-of-charge. It\u2019s still there after a year or more.<\/p>\n

So, before you fall in love with the thought of saving money, consider what those savings will cost you down the road. When a free website goes sour, it\u2019s no fun. No fun at all.<\/p>\n

One: Your web address, your universal resource locator, will be funky. Maybe something like this: YourName-dot-HostingCompany-dot-com. Try taking that with you when you need to move up to a serious hosting company. You can\u2019t. Why should you care? Because your customers and clients have your address at YourName-dot-HostingCompany-dot-com. And that name, my friend, when you move on, won\u2019t point to your new address.<\/p>\n

Two: Reduced functionality. From this, we speak with firsthand experience with two clients.<\/p>\n

First client wanted a page added. No problem. We created and uploaded it. Then, the message showed up that the page was too long. The client could not afford the upgrade, so we gave them – at our expense – space on our web master\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

Second client wanted a year book placed on their web space. We photographed it, edited the photos, and wrote the HTML to make it look pretty. Problem was, don\u2019t you know?, that its file size was too large. Again, too expensive for the client, so that too, ended up on our web space, free-of-charge. It\u2019s still there after a year or more.<\/p>\n

So, before you fall in love with the thought of saving money, consider what those savings will cost you down the road. When a free website goes sour, it\u2019s no fun. No fun at all.<\/p>\n

One: Your web address, your universal resource locator, will be funky. Maybe something like this: YourName-dot-HostingCompany-dot-com. Try taking that with you when you need to move up to a serious hosting company. You can\u2019t. Why should you care? Because your customers and clients have your address at YourName-dot-HostingCompany-dot-com. And that name, my friend, when you move on, won\u2019t point to your new address.<\/p>\n

Two: Reduced functionality. From this, we speak with firsthand experience with two clients.<\/p>\n

First client wanted a page added. No problem. We created and uploaded it. Then, the message showed up that the page was too long. The client could not afford the upgrade, so we gave them – at our expense – space on our web master\u2019s account.<\/p>\n

Second client wanted a year book placed on their web space. We photographed it, edited the photos, and wrote the HTML to make it look pretty. Problem was, don\u2019t you know?, that its file size was too large. Again, too expensive for the client, so that too, ended up on our web space, free-of-charge. It\u2019s still there after a year or more.<\/p>\n

So, before you fall in love with the thought of saving money, consider what those savings will cost you down the road. When a free website goes sour, it\u2019s no fun. No fun at all.<\/p>\n

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Wayne A. English is an Award Winning Author<\/span><\/strong>, and speaker offering a diverse writing portfolio that includes local, national, international publications, five published books and contributions to online and print media. Wayne shares his knowledge through teaching engagements encompassing writing, business, marketing, web content creation, and website design. See his AllAuthor Review.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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