有哪些免費代管選項？
您使用網路的時間可能已經很長，足以發現實際上沒有什麼是免費的服務，尤其網頁代管方案，很少是免費又沒有顯而易見缺點的。在這類平台上建立小型商業網站前，務必先了解免費商業模式，以及您之後需要花多少錢才能得到預期的硬碟空間和頻寬。在免費網頁代管方案中提供的免費架設網站工具可能很誘人，但它也是一種留住您作為客戶的手段，因為您之後就無法輕易更動內容或設計。
部落格平台
接續 MySpace 或 Friendster 等部落格的新一代服務，透明性為其優勢：您的內容代管在一個大型網站上，但是您並未擁有網站所有權，而是承租人，不論升級或更新等等，都必須仰賴網站擁有者的意願。如果您選擇免費的 Wordpress.com 代管方案，即屬於此類型。
試用版
此類型免費方案是使用同一代管服務供應商付費方案前的跳板。這些試用優惠可能有時間限制，我們也不難理解，這些供應商最終目的在於說服您從免費版本升級為付費方案。
免費代管網站的限制
在您可以找到的免費代管服務中，許多都會附加限制，這些限制可能包含：
有限的效能
伺服器上分配給您的空間大小
您所分配的儲存容量通常有限，許多免費代管方案的上限為 500 MB（基本付費方案一般提供數十 GB 磁碟空間）。免費網站方案限制了您的網站大小，無法使用許多電子商務網站可能需要的多媒體或其他元素。
因為使用免費網站代管方案而受到儲存空間限制所造成的影響非常實際而具體，可能阻礙您計畫的擴大與發展。
受限的頻寬
另一項技術上的限制是頻寬，以每月發送給您網站所有訪客的數據量計算。如果您一一查看不同免費網站代管方案，您會發現這個數值上限一般介於 500 MB 和 6 GB 間。
Paid hosting plans like Gandi's, for example, don't set this kind of limitation, and only verify, when traffic exceeds several thousand GB, that this anomaly isn't related to abusive use or site compromise.
Constraints on accessibility and security
A domain name that doesn't necessarily meet your needs
Whatever your web project, it only really takes shape when your content is available at a particular address. However, free host providers don't usually include the option for a free custom domain name. Certain free web hosting services only provide you with a subdomain like "yourwebsite.freehostingprovider.com". Plus you won't be able to have email accounts linked to this domain name. If there's some chance your website will become more professional in the future, not having a custom domain name will be a setback.
Lack of certainty when it comes to security
The role of a hosting provider is also to guarantee the security of your content and your sensitive data. It's not likely that your free web hosting service will offer two-factor authentication or regular PHP updates. It's also difficult with free hosting to know where your data is stored.
With paid hosting, on the other hand, you can expect greater transparency about where your website data is hosted.
The real risk with hosting platforms is that they don't have any contractual obligations to you and can, just as unexpectedly, terminate their business without making arrangements to preserve the sites hosted on their servers. In that situation, you will also be left without technical support, which is rarely offered to users of a free service.
Control over ads
Distribution of ads
Another constraint of certain free web hosting solutions is the displaying of ads that enable your "free" web host can monetize the traffic you create. These ads risk detracting from the users' experience on your site, but you also don't have the ability to choose which ads are displayed and what they look like.
Some free website hosting solutions include ads only in your dashboard, which are not visible to visitors of your site. But these solutions generally come with other limitations as well.
The inability to monetize your webpages
Increasingly, the best free web hosting providers will spare you from having ads on your website or in the backend, but few, if any, will let you implement your own monetization solutions on your websites, like Google Adsense, Media.net, or PropellerAds. Your website's potential profitability is something to consider ahead of time: if your project grows enough that you might want to make some money off of it and thereby be able to devote more time to it, you'll run into this limitation.
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With limitations Free hosting | ||
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With limitations Free hosting | ||
| Available disk space | Available disk space Usually limited to 300 MB, 500 MB, or 1 GB | Available disk space 20 GB |
| Bandwidth | Bandwidth May be limited to between 500 MB of disk space and 6 GB | Bandwidth Unmetered bandwidth |
| Domain name | Domain name Usually the host's subdomain | Domain name Ability to link any domain you own or a free domain included |
| Ads | Ads Yes On your website or your dashboard | Ads |
| Monetization | Monetization | Monetization Yes If you want it |
| Customer support services | Customer support services | Customer support services |
| Free website builder | Free website builder Yes But not possible to export your code somewhere else | Free website builder Yes You own your code and can move it any time on another platform |
In what situations should you go with free web hosting?
As we've seen, free website hosting solutions are not very compatible with many website projects. Some reasons you may want to consider this type of hosting, though, include:
Developing a personal project
With all this in mind, you should be able to start creating within the limitations of most free hosting options. Be careful, though, to make sure you understand the constraints, especially if you're hoping to learn about website development along the way: many of the key controls will be beyond your ability to manage, and you'll miss out on a majority of the experience of website management and creation.
Carrying out tests
You might consider going with free website hosting options in order to test aspects of your website, whether that's particular themes or specific plugins. With this solution, the limits imposed by the cheapest hosting services shouldn't pose any problems. However, you might also consider using an offline development tool so that you don't have to worry about your hosting or domain.
"It doesn't cost anything to try"
It might be tempting to develop websites with a free web hosting service by telling yourself that if all else fails, it won't cost anything. The investment of time and energy that you'll have to commit to these sites will, in large part, be lost if you realize at some point during the development of your project that the free web hosting solution isn't suited to your needs and you'll need to move to a paid version. In that situation, you may end up stuck with your web hosting provider and be restricted to using the paid version of the free hosting plan you are already on or have to start over building your website and your community of readers. "Free is expensive," or so the saying goes, and that can be especially true when talking about web hosting.
常見問題 FAQ
What criteria should you look at when choosing web hosting?
The best suited hosting for your own website should meet the following list of important criteria:
- Reliability: if your website is not online, even for a short period of time, it sends a very negative signal to your visitors and to search engines. Make sure you go with a hosting service that has plenty of customers, has been around a long time, and whose server locations are known so that you can be sure to count on their reliability
- Technical requirements: whether buying a computer or buying a web hosting plan, you'll need to compare disk space and processing speed across similarly priced options. These are the technical characteristics that will make it possible for you to develop your website—or multiple websites—whether that's a blog, a brochure website, or an online store that will need to make calls to different MySQL databases
- Customer support: your hosting service should have an effective customer support team if, for whatever reason, one of the previous criteria comes up short. Be sure there's always someone available to help
How much disk space do I need for my website?
With an average size per page of around 2 MB:
- For 100 pages on your website, the space required on the web server would be 200MB
- For 500 pages on your website, the space required on the web server would be 1GB
- For 1000 pages on your website, the space required on the web server would be 2GB
- For 2000 pages on your website, the space required on the web server would be 4GB
This table only includes the pages that you will publish and doesn't take into account the space you'd need for your CMS. If you want a WordPress site, for example, you'll need 30.8 MB for the core WordPress software, a database whose size is related to the number of pages (and which can take up several hundred MB for certain databases like MySQL), between 1 and 10 MB per website theme, and between 50 and 100 MB for each plugin.
You should also consider that your pages will very likely include multimedia files. You can, of course, host your videos on YouTube or Dailymotion and embed them on your pages without using additional disk space, but it's much harder to similarly host your images, which can take up a significant amount of disk space. You should also note that some free hosting providers impose a size limit per file, which further restricts the spectrum of possibilities available to you for developing your website.
What's the best affordable web hosting service for a blog?
Once you have defined your editorial line and determined a publication rate, you'll need to pick the best suited web hosting solution to bring your blog posts to the whole world.
You might decide to code your blog yourself and maintain complete control over your site and your database. But you might also concentrate your content by going with a blog hosting solution that includes and automatically installs WordPress, with 20GB of data storage, a free domain name, and a free SSL certificate.
What's the best web host for an online store?
You have already determined your brand name, and established a catalog of your products, you'll now need a technical solution to make it possible for potential customers to find your products. The best E-commerce web hosting provider should link your custom web address to your e-commerce site, and make it possible for you to manage your catalog with a custom tool.
You have the choice between the e-commerce option available for your WordPress site via the WooCommerce plugin and the Prestashop CMS, which though less affordable, is better suited for large product catalogs, or an e-commerce shop that you code yourself, at your convenience, but with a considerable investment in time, money, and work.
WordPress's e-commerce solution can be implemented with basic hosting, 20 GB of storage, a free SSL certificate, and automatic installation. As for the Prestashop solution, we recommend going with a more robust solution, with the same basic properties but with 50 GB of disk space, up to 5 websites possible, and access to FTP accounts.
What is shared hosting?
Many free web hosts offer a type of hosting called "shared hosting." Usually the shared web hosting plan is the most affordable web hosting plan that a host offers. With this type of hosting, resources are "shared" between multiple customers. The resources that are shared might include data storage, processing power, and the network. This means that shared hosting can often mean that when other sites on the same shared hosting service experience peaks in traffic, or otherwise use up resources on a server, it can impact the other websites hosted on the same shared hosting instance.
Gandi's hosting infrastructure is built differently from the typical shared hosting arrangement described above. Our premium hosting service consists of completely isolated instances, with their own allocated resources, meaning that you can have the advantages of shared hosting (particularly affordability) without the drawbacks.
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