Earn Free Web Page Hosting by Being Helpful

Contributed by Deb Powers

Earn Free Web Page Hosting by Being Helpful

An idea that's gaining in popularity among the free web page hosting markets is P2P - Post to Pay hosting. It's the internet version of 'paying your dues'. P2P hosts allow you to earn web hosting services from them by posting on their user discussion forums. The more you post, the more services you earn. A user posting 25 posts a month to a P2P host forum can earn their basic web page hosting for free. That's just about a post a day - ten minutes of your time?

Why they give free web page hosting for forum posts.

A community web site depends on active members that post often to stay healthy. When you post to the host's forum, you increase his web hit statistics, add to his available content (which is great for his search statistics) and make his service more attractive to advertisers - which is where he makes his money.

You also help make his hosting site more attractive to new users by answering questions they may have, offering assistance with technical problems, and joining in discussions of issues that affect web hosting, programming and just about any other aspect of web design. The more you post, the more valuable you are to HIS service, and the more he'll reward you with goodies - more bandwidth, more storage, more email addresses - more.

But you can find a free web page host that doesn't have requirements - what's in it for me??

The P2P web page hosts offer services and amenities that are usually only available with paid hosting packages - like databases, scripting support, ftp access, and multiple user support. As an example, www.buildtolearn.com, a P2P host, offers four different packages to their users - basic, webmaster, developer and guru.

Every one of their packages includes MySQL databases (5 with basic hosting, 100 with guru), AND PostGRE databases, CGI and PERL scripting, Fantastico (lots and lots of free php scripts to install on your web site) and phpBB, Invision Board, PHP-Nuke and OSCommerce shopping carts. That's more than most paid hosts include.

In addition, you'll become a member of an active community that's there to help when you run into a problem. The forum discussions alone are an excellent resource for learning about trends in ecommerce marketing, or the latest software to make your web site more dynamic and interesting to your users.

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