| Thrifty Thursday Tip #4: Web Hosting on the Cheap
As your business grows, you'll find that you'll want more and more features with your web hosting. You'll need more bandwidth, reliability will become increasingly important, and so on. But when you're just starting out, especially as a bootstrap venture or solopreneur, there's no sense paying huge web hosting and domain fees that you just don't need. If you're looking to establish just a very basic web presence -- mostly static pages, minimal customization to your design, etc. -- Microsoft Office Live Basics is pretty tough to beat. Microsoft rocked the low-end hosting world when they announced this service in 2006. For absolutely free (yes, really), you get: Free domain name and Web hosting Easy-to-use Web site design tools 500 MB of Web site storage space 25 company-branded e-mail accounts Web site reports All with no advertising (just a small logo in the corner of your website).
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