When many people first begin looking for hosting as a new webmaster, it can be hard to know where to begin. It seems like you shouldn’t have to pay for shared web hosting when their are many free options available. However, it may not always be to your advantage to go with the free options. If you are interested in free web hosting, you may also want to consider looking at cheap web hosting. Many cheap web hosting services are from shared hosting providers, and there are a number of reasons you should consider this;
Free hosting rarely, if ever, comes with customer support. Many free hosting companies simply do not have the time to deal with issuing customer support to customers who generate them no revenue. Since you are not paying for their service, you have to come to expect that you will not receive all of the odds and ends that come with cheap web hosting and other shared hosting plans.
Cheap web hosting does not place banners on your web page. Many free services will place banners on your web pages in order to help them earn revenue from your web page. When you use cheap web hosting, since you are paying for the service, they will not place these banners on your web page. In fact, you may place your own banners or sell your advertising space in order to earn revenue from your web site.
Your site will run slow on free web hosting. Because they are offering you their service for free, they will be filling their servers to the brim with websites and files. Your site will probably often experience downtime and will run slow when it is up. If this is something you would like to avoid you should probably consider looking for a paid hosting option.
Written by Web Hosting Expert on Feb 7, 2010.
