Internet awareness is spreading in developed countries but it is still a new concept for many developing countries. After DOTCOM bubble burst people have become more conscious, about investing for the web. People want to use the power of Internet, but they want it free or with minimum cost. There are three basic costs to launch a web site.

- Domain Booking
- Hosting &
- Web Designing

Domain charges vary from US$10 to US$35 depending on registration authority/agent you select. Basic hosting plans of 5 MB web space starts from US$50 a year & it depends on factors like hard-disk space, bandwidth & database facility. The charges increases with the increase in the facilities chosen.

Web designing charges depend on type of site that the client wants to design, the sites can be static with HTML, dynamic with database facility or Interactive with sound & animation.

As a web designer it must be part of your service to satisfy clients' expectations at minimum possible cost. A client expects his web presence with his own domain name & hosting either at minimum cost or on a free server. To get the feel of Internet web site clients in first phases insist for simple static HTML Site.

Many of ISPs, to attract more & more subscribers, offer advertisement free hosting of minimum 1 MB along with their internet connection. There are many companies which offer free, advertising-supported Web site hosting. To name few of them :

http://www.freeservers.com, http://geocities.yahoo.com/home, http://www.tripod.lycos.com, http://www.hypermart.net/ In both of the above mentioned cases, the URL or web site address that the customers get is http://www.servername.com/username or http://username.servername.com

A. They are too long
B. It does not show your company's identity as it contains name of the server along with your name.
C. Visitor who knows about such free service will think that you are not serious about web. In some of the cases, the client comes with a different requirement. He already has a web site for one of his company or product. He wants to develop a web site with a different domain name. He is ready to bear the domain booking charges, but he does not want to pay the hosting charges as he intends to use the balance web space on the site that he hosted earlier. Such a requirement from a cost conscious customer is common, who actually does not understand the technical problem involved.

It is very much possible to point two different domain names against same hosting web space or against same home pages, but it is not possible to point two different domain names against two separate home pages on same hosting space.

As discussed earlier a web designer must provide a solution as expected by the customer. Solution provided to the customer as per his requirement will bring more business for you. In all the situation discussed above, a very suitable solution for the problem is "DOMAIN REDIRECT"