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Host
Name : Homestead
Your Address : www.yourname.homestead.com
Web Space : 8MB free
Banner Ad : Yes. Bottom Frame
Features : Good website builder, guestbook, site promotion,etc.
My Ratings : 
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Review
: Homestead has been one of the
most popular web hosts for both personal and business websites
in the past. They have a great site builder which can be downloaded
and you can work on your websites offline. The site builder is
very easy to use, and I would strongly recommend it for beginners.
The customer service department is terrific. When I asked a question,
someone would email me with an answer within a day or two. In
exchange for their terrific service, Homestead will place their
banner advertisement on the bottom frame of your website. So,
why did I give them a low rating?
As of the past recent month, Homestead has made some major changes
to their service. They now only offer a very basic free service
called Homestead Personal Preview which only allows 8MB of webpace
and users are only allowed to have a maximum of 3 pages per site.
The web tools and support is also very limited for the Homestead
Personal Preview Service. In addition, you can only create your
web page online. Their terrific Sitebuilder is only available
with upgrade, which cost $2.50 (if you sign up for a year's contract).
Plus there will be no option to remove Homestead branding from
your pages, and the banners are worse than the previous one.
On the bright side, if you are willing to pay for your web hosting
needs, Homestead offers a great Homestead Personal Members Plan.
This plan came with a new and improved version of their downloadable
Sitebuilder, 25MB of storage space, unlimited number of websites
and unlimited pages per site. You also have an option to remove
the advertisements. Best of all, you can work on your pages offline
and Homestead guarantees a professional customer service.
I would only recommend Homestead for beginners who don't plan
on learning how to use HTML or fans of Homestead Sitebuilder.
If you are an experienced web maker and know how to use HTML,
I would recommend you to find another webhost. Homestead is good
but there are better hosts out there. If you need help with learning
HTML, please feel free to email me with your questions, or do
visit Lissa Explains
or HTML Goodies for great
tutorials on HTML.
If you have any comments on Homestead.Com or wish to add a review
about Homestead, please feel free to share your thoughts here.
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