When you are on a budget, it is nice to go for the free. However, if this is an indicator of starting your site right, you may get what you pay for. If you are pretty proficient on the computer you may feel capable of launching a site with the type of template that comes free along with the hosting. It may even look like a pretty good site. The one thing you want to remember is that the site isn’t really yours. It is created from a database and all the content and images you add are added to the hosting company’s database. If the hosting company is an established company, it probably isn’t going anywhere. That’s good! Then again you can’t take it anywhere either. If your company starts to grow and you want to go more custom, it probably means starting over with your site. Since all this time you got away pretty cheap, that may be OK. It is better when it isn’t a surprise. Read more …