The second aspect is seldom thought about, but it can add up. Hosting a web site costs money, no matter what site it is or what business you are hosting it through. This is because somewhere in the world is a server that stores your web site information, it isn't magical as some might think. This storage requires space on someone's server. This space is generally limited on free hosting web sites. These hosting web sites almost always advertise on your site to attempt to pay the fees you are charging them. While these fees are negligible, and you can get a www.webiota.com/you site at the very miniscule cost of 5$/year, you will end up paying more for a www.you.com unique domain site.
These unique domain sites must, no matter the person or their connections, cost all unique domain holders a certain amount to continue to register the web sites. Because we go through Hostica, the cost is around $8.00/year. Additionally, your web site will count for a "domain slot" at hostica. This domain slot will cost you for "hosting." We offer to host your site from our account to save you some money; however, this hosting is most likely going to cost you at least 1$/month, adding up to a total of around 20$/year. Although, when all things are considered, 20$/year for a www.you.com vs 5$/year for a www.webiota.com/you site, seems to be little more to pay for your own domain name. This is why we encourage all users to sign up with these services. If you would like, we can sign up for you, sending you the bills; however, we are more than happy to help you set up an automatic charge system with them so that you no longer have to deal with us or them, and you simply recieve about 20$/year of billing.