No more speeches about importance of your own domain,
no more talks about necessity of having paid hosting.
If you think your brand domain name and stable hosting
with a number of features and absence of ads are not
worth, at least, $50-$150 per year, then you probably
want to play games, rather than build online business.
Choosing hosting provider is something similar to
choosing the place of your off-line office. Despite
the fact that it is as easy to enter the URL and go
to web-site that is physically located in Sidney as
in Oslo, the final role here plays the speed of connection
and stability of the hosting itself.
The problem with hosting comes down to the old statute
of running ebusiness - that is RESEARCH before ACT!
The easiest thing to do online is to pay money, the
hardest is to THINK OVER what I'm paying for! That
statement is true with hosting also because you can
pay, let's say, $35 monthly for some particular hosting
service, without notice that in two mouse clicks there
is an hosting offer providing two times better services
all for $15 per month only, so you will keep on losing
services as well as $20 monthly that accumulates up
to $240 annually losses as a Fee for not doing hosting
research! Besides you should keep your eyes open for
very good discounted offers that could save you 30-50%
for the first year of payments.