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Most colleges these
days offer free web hosting to their
students under their college website
domain- a sub-domain. This is
especially useful to students who
need to set up their own websites
but lack either the tools or
finances to host it elsewhere. The
college also builds up its online
presence and obtains another
valuable source of information.
Colleges and universities usually
have vast amounts of space on their
websites and generally are taken to
be reputable and a credible source
of information. Seeing a college
domain in the URL of any website can
let visitors know that the
information in the website that they
are viewing is approved and hosted
by the school. This in turn creates
a sense of reliability and accuracy
for the website itself. This alone
is a huge benefit to any websites
hosted by colleges.
Having your website hosted by
colleges also gives you free access
to a top end web host and hosting
package. The web host your college
employs likely has high uptime, 24
hours customer service as well as
high bandwidth limits. While this
may not directly impact you as
someone who hosts his website on the
school domain, it does mean that
your website is not likely to suffer
from high downtimes or get taken off
line due to overconsumption of
bandwidth.
Also, placing your website on the
college servers gives you a
ready-made set of audience and
traffic for your newly founded
website. College students and alumni
all surf the college website
frequently, placing your website on
this server can allow you to harness
the traffic from the college site.
Although this is usually not a
significantly large demographic, it
is nonetheless a good start for any
budding web page owner.
However, it does not mean that by
hosting your website on your college
server it always a good thing. For
one, your URL becomes significantly
harder to remember and type. This
may not seem like an important
constraint, but it does limit the
uses of college web hosting
primarily to informative websites
rather than for business, affiliate
marketing, and perhaps even
Blogging. Having a long URL with a
sub-domain and a domain will make it
harder for people to remember the
website address.
Furthermore, with the limits imposed
by school regulations it is often
difficult to host your website on
college servers. Apart from
informative websites, many other
websites are prohibited from using
college resources to host. Business
websites or blogs are often
considered inappropriate material
for college resources, not to
mention other forms of more illicit
websites.
Nevertheless, using college
resources for web hosting of
websites may not be the most
suitable for all forms of web pages,
it is still a viable option for
those who wish to do so. If you have
a college approved website which you
need to host, try using web hosting
at colleges first before changing
over to a paid service if needed.
After all, college resources are
still free.
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