For some people, they taught that all web hosting service are expensive. No! There are free and affordable services. These are the free and Shared Web Hosting. Definitely, the service is free in free website hosting. But the bad side of it is that you can only have a sub-domain name. If you want a professional service, you can choose the other types instead of free service. On the other hand, the shared website hosting has an affordable service because is the cheapest among other types. Compare to free service, in shared, you can have your own domain type but you are sharing a server from other users. You do not have your own server here. And it has a small storage capacity. This is only applicable for small business.
There are many great hosting companies out there. Most are up to date with their services and supplies. Some are far more advanced. There are a few things that you need to look for when deciding.
Affordable Web Hosting on a dedicated server: A very big web hosting company usually sells this type of affordable web hosting. This type of Affordable Web Hosting is usually used by medium size websites. It also requires a lot of cost but the cost isn't as much as that of an affordable web hosting strictly hosted on a personal computer. Maintenance is also of great importance but the affordable web hosting provider offering this service, must be able to provide assistance if need be.
Below are a few more but I could go into great detail and do not want to confuse you. If you have the time, look into all of them by using your favourite search engine and decide which is best for you.
You also need to make sure that your chosen Shared Web Hosting UK hosting provider has an easy to use control panel. Some control panels can turn your hosting account management to a nightmare. cPanel and Parallels Plesk are both great control panels to consider. Moreover, be certain that your provider provides a 24/7 support.
Some examples of domain names are "http://www.google.com" and "http://www.google.co.uk". First one is .com extension and second is United Kingdom extension domain name.
The hosting company that I use also allows you to purchase a new domain name with PayPal. This is what I did. The online domain name purchasing website did not accept my debit card. However, I was able to email full payment via PayPal along with the domain name that I wished to purchase. This request was then carried out within minutes by the support team, whom emailed me confirmation of purchase.