Optimizing expenditure on web-related services

The Internet is the cheapest place to put information and marketing materials about your products and services. Considering using the Internet, you'll save money and resources printing brochures, flyers, getting a space to display your wares or putting up banners in public places. And the basic function to do so is to put up a website.

For this article, we briefly examine a couple of hosting and email services which are FREE for users without much web based needs. What are the assumptions made?
1) you do not need a lot of space on the web: you only need a web space to display your products and services
2) you do not have secure transactions on the web: no monetary transaction is needed on your website
3) you have less than ten employees or if you do not need more than 10 email accounts for the business operations
4) you're just starting out and have a budget to meet.

Instead of doing a comparison of the endless web hosting services, we'll zoom into just weebly.com
Basically Weebly has a few plans (or tiers) of hosting packages available. What's attractive is its Free plan (which can be free for life). The downside is you'll have a weebly.com domain. But with the right SEO this shouldn't be an issue.

Superb Website Builders has done a pretty clear cut comparison of Weebly and a similar service provider, Squarespace. You can read more about it in the link below.
Comparison between Weebly and Squarespace

About emails, this article discusses about Zoho Mail. Their Free (and it's ad-free) plan covers 10 users and a reasonable amount of space.

Usually these hosting services cost between US$30 to US$60 per year, and you probably don't use more than a GB of space. The savings can be significant if you're starting out small!