Using Free Web Hosting

In some cases, even though you need web hosting, you may not be able to pay for a hosting company for the service. Previously, free web hosting services once ruled the internet world. However, in recent years, the number of such free services on the internet has started dropping with more and more web host companies forcing their free subscribed users to place text/graphic ads, flash advertisement and banners on their websites.

The remaining free and cheap web hosting service providers started offering paid web hosting services with offered extra features, as a value added services on top of their existing everyday services.

The advantages of using free hosting services is that you can publish your web site on internet with free of charge, thus you no need to worry on spending any money with the services.

There are some disadvantages to free web hosting as well. It is disadvantageous because you’re forced to display some form of advertisement on your website even thought you are not really want them to appear on your website. Nonetheless, these sort of advertisements are essential to web hosts companies as they need to generate money by publishing the ads in order to cover their web hosting costs. Pop-unders, text links, pop-ups, banners and  sometime a combination of all this ads are the common advertisement technique that these free hosts companies use to display on your website.

It is the amateurs and novice users of the internet world who earn advantages with free web hosts.

Free web hosts are also useful to those who has no experience at all on the internet and they can just building a small experimental website, creating a backup for another site and if one requires a test platform.

However, for free web hosts, you will expect a limitations on the type of files you use, limited storage space and the content of your website when you use free web hosting services. A few free web hosts will have restrictions on the file size limits you upload while others may set the bandwidth limitation for your web site.

You may have to register a domain name yourself. Don’t expect a free domain names with free web hosts as most of them have sub domains and directories.

Finally, using free hosting doesn’t offer any professionalism to your website, which is essential in mainly business and eCommerce sites.