What you should know about free-of-cost website hosting

Lots of hosting distributors now are offering free website hosting plans, winning more and more customers. The cost-free service is fine if you possess a personal site or if you are not willing to invest cash for a paid professional web space hosting solution. Let's take a glance at some of the upsides and downsides of the free-of-cost web space hosting service in general.

Upside No.1: Free-of-Cost Hosting is... Free-of-Cost

The biggest strength is that you obtain a top free hosting service - this would eliminate any costs connected with keeping a personal site, a blog, a forum, or even a small corporate web site. Since the free web hosting corporations are also offering standard shared hosting plans, they will strive to provide you with a solid service and to assure you that their hosting servers are reliable. If you obtain a dependable free service, it signifies that you'd obtain an even finer paid service, so it is in their own best interest to provide you with an adequate free-of-cost web space hosting solution. This will make you more likely to contemplate ordering a cloud web hosting solution from them in the not too distant future.

Advantage Number Two: Spares You Money

The free hosting solution is a good choice if you do not wish to spend money for your web site or you are making your first moves in web page design and want to discover how well you can do, but you are reluctant to pay money for that. Additionally, if you require a web site for a certain event such as a class meeting, a fundraising campaign, or regional elections, you may think about a free-of-charge web page hosting package as you will not be bound by any service-level agreements and you will not have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis for the web site hosting account, which you may not even avail of after the event has elapsed.

Disadvantage Number One: Forced Adverts

Regardless of how good the free-of-cost site hosting solution might look, it also has inconveniences ? exactly because it is free-of-charge. Since the clients do not pay for their webspace hosting plans, the only way for the hosting service provider to offer this service is to place adverts on every page of your web site. Some web hosting service providers even use popup windows and this may prevent your web site visitors from examining it or from returning again in the near future. The advertisements will also make any company web page seem inadequate ? few people would purchase anything from a hosting firm that cannot afford to pay money for its own personal web site.

Disadvantage No.2: Limited Tech Support

There are some technical limitations as well. Because the hosting service is cost-free, the data storage space, bandwidth and file size quotas are traditionally very limited, while email or database support is not invariably present. You can upgrade either the entire plan to a reliable hosting package, or you can upgrade only a single functionality, such as hard disk storage, depending on the upgrade possibilities offered by the free hosting provider that you avail of. Another shortcoming is that you may receive minimal or no customer and tech support and that there is no guarantee for the stability of the hosting servers. Every web hosting vendor would like to provide reliable services, but as long as you do not pay a single dime, as is the case with the cost-free hosting solution, you cannot hope to receive such solutions.

Low-Priced Site Hosting - The Worthier Choice?

Examining the positive and negative points of the free web hosting solution, you can determine whether you would like such a package or a paid professional one. Certain web hosting web hosts such as 'LIVING-NETWORK ', for instance, provide a bunch of standard web hosting packages that are quite cheap and significantly surpass the resources furnished by any charge-free hosting plan.