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What's new in free web hosting?

Alot.

In days of old, free web hosting typically meant dealing with banner ads and using kiddie-corner administrational panels that put a major cramp in your style. In essence, your website's pretty face had to

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

take a hit in order to accomodate the advertisements that kept your free web host in business. On top of this you were denied access to all the yummy web development goodies that commercial web hosting packages offered.

Welcome to 2007 where fr

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

ee web hosting services are really starting to give commercial web hosts a run for their money. Nowadays, the kind of perks being offered up by some of the cutting-edge free web hosts are looking rather impressive.

If you take a good look aroun

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

d, here's what you can expect to find:

No ads ~ Yes that's right, free web hosting is no longer synonymous with the words 'butt ugly', as in the banner ads that hosts of old required you to display on all your web page

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

s. Nowadays, free hosting with NO ADS is becoming more and more the norm.

Server-side scripting ~ Free web hosts are now starting to acknowledge that some freebie hunters have advanced webmastering skills. This means doing away

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

with those front-end teletubby page wizards and providing a means to tinker around with complex back-end web development solutions using server-side scripting --most particularly PHP, Perl and SSI. This kind of support was unheard of four or fiv

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

e years ago.

MySQL databases ~ Another no-show in free hosting packages of yesteryear was MySQL databases which play a big role in allowing websites to move from static one-dimensional to dynamic interaction. The advance guard o

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

f free hosting are starting to include MySQL support among their growing list of bells and whistles.

Auto-script installation ~ To slap a little icing on free PHP/MySQL support thing, some hosts actually provide free automated s

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

cript installations for blogs, forums and content management systems. This means you don't have to be a propellor head (nor have a plug nickel in your pocket) to set up a Wordpress blog.

FTP access ~ The file manager wizards off

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

ered up by old school free hosts (mentioning no names, of course) are slow, klunky and have limited capabilities. Can we say 'FTP access'? Yes that's right. This is also becoming the norm among freebies.

Domain name hosting ~ Th

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

quintessential giveaway that you didn't have the green to make the paid web hosting scene was a home page URL that looked something like: myname.cheapo-free-host.com. Nowadays, many companies offering free hosting packages are also allow

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ing you to host your own domain name (and at no extra charge).

User support forum ~ What!? Free hosting with a technical support forum? Yes, in fact, I've seen some free hosts in recent years offer better technical

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

support than some web hosting packages that I actually paid for. User support forums are rapidly becoming a standard especially since many free web hosts keep themselves alive by running a "post-for-hosting" business model (ads are displayed on

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

forums which they require users to regularly post to in order to retain their hosting packages).

Some free web hosts actually provide all of the above and with no obligatory forum posting. However, you should never forget th

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

at the bottom line is all web hosting (brace yourself) COST$ MONEY. Hence, if a web host is not making money off ads displayed on users' web pages nor on forums that they require users to regularly post to then their cash flow is entirely

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

dependent on 'upselling' the freebies to paid hosting solutions. (Which can be a tough sell if the freebie hunters are dug in like ticks on a hound because they're not too fussy about things like guaranteed uptime or high bandwidth allotment.)

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

Keeping that in mind, your best bet is to go with a free web host that appears to have some solid means of remaining solvent otherwise they'll tank before they see out their first six months (seen it happen many times). Oh yeah and guess who go

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

es down with the ship?

One final note about free hosting in 2007... Despite the vast improvement in the bells and whistles being offered up by the freebies, a couple of things you'll probably never see are:

High bandwidth and disk sp

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ace allotments

Uptime guarantees (yeah right... that'll be the day... *chuckle*)

For those two amenities, you'll definitely have to lay some cash on the barrel. Fortunately, the winds of change have also blown through the

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ranks of commercial web hosting. You can now buy a kick-ass web hosting package with tons of bandwidth, tons of disk space, multiple domain hosting, 99.9% guaranteed uptime and more goodies than you can shake a stick at for less than $10 a month

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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