Web hosting is the act of renting space and bandwidth through a company so that you may publish your web site online.

You can either opt for free hosting that is usually supported with banners and pop ups, or may opt to get paid web hosting, which gives you complete control over your site contents.

Depending on which operating system to go with depends on your needs.

If you need to support Microsoft products such as ASP, MS Access, VBScript and other Windows supported products like Coldfusion then Windows hosting would be better. Furthermore, after the release of Windows 2003, it has become highly popular in the world of hosting.

This form of web hosting should suffice for most everyone.

Shared hosting simple refers to the fact that your site is on one server, and that this server hosts multiple sites. You are virtually shared - your site will not be the only one on this specific server.

Very few sites would actually need the power of a dedicated server, so this option provides to be a reliable and cheap solution.

Disk space is the size your website can be. Every single letter on your website has to be stored somewhere on your web host's server. Each letter is one byte, and a megabyte is roughly one million bytes. HTML pages are usually very small, but it is the extra images, scripts, and even databases that can take up large amounts of disk space.

Bandwidth/Transfer is the amount of data the server will allow your site to send in a month. Transfer is usually measured in gigabytes - billions of bytes. Once you go over your monthly limit, a host may either shut your site down for the remainder of the month or it can charge you 'overage.'

These are all programming languages which are referred to by their acronyms.

PHP - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
ASP - Active Server Pages
Perl - not an acronym

Each programming language has its own benefits and uses. It is best that you research on your own to find one that best fits your needs.

For most people, a dedicated IP is not required. But for people that want to provide anonymous FTP or a website using SSL, a dedicated IP can make that easier.

Uptime is literally what it means - it is the amount of time your site is online throughout the entire month.

The best uptime would be 100%, but because things can break, many hosts offer 99.9% uptime guarantees which is approx 43 minutes of downtime in a month.

The main method of uploading files to your site's account is by using FTP. When you sign up with us, you will get an FTP account that lets you access files in your account (ftp.yoursitename.com, your main account name and password).

Then you can use a built-in Windows or Internet Explorer FTP client, or some other software that supports FTP such as CuteFTP, WS_FTP, or Total Commander to transfer files from your hard drive to your account.

All these methods will work fine, but we recommend using dedicated FTP programs as the preferred solution because these programs have the best user interfaces and support advanced options like setting file permissions and resuming aborted file transfers.

The main differences between our hosting plans are found in the amount of disk space you are provided with, the amount of transfer you are allowed, and the number of e-mail accounts included. You may note that being hosted on a dedicated server also allows for more control over basic server settings.

This is a decision you must make for yourself based on both the amount of exposure you plan to give your site as well as the amount of information you have for your site. Due to the generous disk space limits Tech Freedom Online gives, most sites start with 20 MB packages. Upgrading is a breeze and you only pay the difference in fees from one level to the next when upgrading.

Yes! You are welcome to make money selling ad space of all shapes and sizes on your site! Note that the content restrictions apply to any advertisements you place on your pages.

NO! Tech Freedom Online is 100% AGAINST SPAM! **If we receive SPAM complaints about your account, we will be forced to terminate your account without a refund.** There are much better ways of bringing GOOD traffic to your site.

**If the people you are mailing did request to receive your newsletter, then it is acceptable. ** If we receive complaints of the newsletter bring unsolicited SPAM, we will be forced to terminate your account without refund. **

With your hosting account, you have the option of choosing either e-mail forwarding or POP3 e-mail accounts. The number of accounts that are included in your monthly web site hosting fee is based on the level of the account you purchase.

We can forward all e-mail from your domain name to your current e-mail account.

A Catchall e-mail account will forward anything@yourdomain.com that you have not specifically setup as an alias or POP3 account for. You'll get all mail to your domain name and your customers will not receive mail bounces for invalid e-mail addresses at your domain.

Yes. Included with every Tech Freedom Online hosting account is the ability to create auto-responders. There is NO additional charge for this service.

Yes you can, you have an option of registering a domain name from us or use your existing domain name. All you have to do is change the nameserver information (DNS information) of your domain name to:

ns1.techfreedomonline.net
ns2.techfreedomonline.net
ns3.techfreedomonline.net
ns4.techfreedomonline.net.

We can host most types of domain names (with a few exceptions such as .name) - if in doubt please contact us.

Hosting account setup is completed within a few hours of us receiving your payment. If you choose to pay on-line with a credit / debit card your account will be up and running the same day. If you choose to be invoiced you will receive your invoice by e-mail within a few hours and account setup will be completed immediately we receive payment.

No, your account is for your use ONLY and we currently do not offer multiple hosting under one account - however this may be an option if you go for our reseller plans. Please see our reseller area for more details.

As often as you need to, your FTP account is there to be used 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

We do, and a very advanced one at that...

Webmail is provided to all accounts via our Neomail, Squirell Mail, Horde Web mail (Linux Plans) mail server software, the interface is very fast and easy to use and the software offers a number of advanced features such as attachments, vacation messages, autoresponders, antivirus and Spam Filters.

Where possible you should use your ISP's SMTP server to send e-mail.

There are occasions where this is not possible (for instance AOL in USA and VSNL in India do not provide an SMTP server for their customers) in this case we can provide you with a secure SMTP login to our mail servers to send your mail at a minimal cost.