Free Web Hosting – Not a Good Choice

“There is no free lunch”. It is an old saying, but is it true? Who would not like to avail the free opportunities whether it is a book, a free software program, a free domain name, or a free email account. Almost every person uses these free things.

Free web hosting – why people don't like it

In most of the cases, free things are preferable but what about free web hosting? Usually people don't like to have free hosting. Why? Here are some important reasons.

•  Free web hosting usually displays the ads on your web pages.

•  Free web hosting normally offer limited storage space.

•  By using Free web hosting you are bound by the rules and regulations set by the host. So it is very restrictive.

•  Free web site hosting also offer limited bandwidth per day.

•  Free website hosting does not allow you to have your domain name.

•  You cannot get any technical support for your database, nor can you accept advertisements.

•  No guarantee on server uptime is provided by free hosting.

•  No free traffic transfer space is provided.

•  No access to cgi and/or perl script

•  No sub-directories

•  No secure server for credit card payments

•  Very low SEO visibility as search engines bypass free sites often

Then who uses free web hosting?

Normally, new comers use free web hosting for their websites. A new comer definitely must be looking for several aspects of the working of the website and what are the best possible ways to plan his site or domain on the net. The best solutions for such new comers, is free hosting.

Some people want to create a personal web page that contains information about them. For this purpose it is useless to buy a paid plan. So in that case these kinds of persons also prefer free web hosting.

What you will get in free web hosting package?

•  You will get a web space on the net that is totally free.

•  It will provide you with a free email account in most cases.

•  You will also get free bandwidth per day.

Additional features.

A free web host may also provide free image hosting, free video hosting, free music hosting, free php hosting, free domain hosting, free file hosting, free picture hositng, free mp3 hosting and many other free features.

You may not get all the additional features in one plan but different plans contain few of them.