A website for free – myth or truth?

Everyone, who ever intended to have a homepage or an online shop, had thoughts about the following questions in mind:

What does this cost? Is it also possible to create a homepage for free, or to minimize the associated costs?

First, let me briefly explain what needed to start with a website. It’s actually just two things:

first is the name of your website, s.g. domain name , such as my-homepage.ch and
second is a storage space or server there your website will be saved, called and shown from.

Of course, these two are not for free. A swiss local .ch domain costs e.g. at infomaniak.com 7,90 EUR (about 9.- CHF) per year. Hosting usually costs about 10.- CHF per month.

You can get these two things for free at a site builder provider and create your homepage for free, e.g. at 123.ch or wix.de and similar.

You can find out how this model works by following the link below: websitetooltester.com. There are detailed reports on the subject, video instructions, that explain step by step how a site builder works. This type of website creation would be of interest to anyone who prefers to create websites quickly and easily.

The big disadvantage is the very limited options for editing of the homepage created with a site builder. As a rule, such websites only run on the servers of the respective provider and you do not have access to the source code of the page. In addition, you can not transfer the site to another provider or can do it with a lot of effort. Depending on the viewing perspective, for example, as a developer, this is a disadvantage. For a beginner, however, it might even be an advantage, because you would not have to worry about this source code and a server. But if you decide for complete control and flexibility, you need your own server or hosting.

I took, for example, a provider named easyname.com. Signed in and got started! Modern hosting providers also make it possible to build a homepage or an online shop using their own site builder or content management system (such as WordPress). These systems are usually installed in just a few clicks. And after that, you can create and edit your homepage. You can select the design from the templates that are available for free or add a purchased template to your installation. How and where to buy these templates will be discussed in another video and unique design as well. With the help of the two above-mentioned possibilities, namely site builders and hosting providers, you can create a homepage for free or for a very low cost.

I hope, this post has helped you.

Your Alena B.

Links:

ovh.de – Domain names

infomaniak.ch – Domain names

namecheap.com – Domain names

websitetooltester.com/blog/kostenlose-homepage – Sitebuilder providers in comparison

siteground.com – Hosting in USA

metanet.ch – Domain names & Hosting in Switzerland