What you should learn about cost-free site hosting

A large number of hosting vendors as of now are providing cost-free web hosting services, seducing more and more customers. The free-of-cost solution is adequate if you own a personal web portal or if you are reluctant to invest money for a paid professional web site hosting package. Let's take a peek at some of the strong and weak sides of the free site hosting solution in general.

Virtue Number 1: Charge-Free Hosting is... Free-of-Cost

The greatest advantage is that you get a top free hosting service - this would exclude any costs connected with running a personal portal, a blog, a forum, or even a small-scale corporate web site. Since the free web hosting vendors are also providing regular shared hosting plans, they will give their best to offer you a rock steady service and to reassure you that their hosting servers are dependable. If you receive a good free-of-cost service, it implies that you'd obtain an even finer paid service, so it is in their own interest to provide you with a satisfactory free-of-cost web site hosting service. This will render you more prone to contemplate purchasing a cloud web hosting plan from them in the not too distant future.

Asset No.2: Saves You Cash

The free hosting solution is an appropriate alternative if you do not wish to invest money in your site or you are making your first steps in web page design and wish to discover how well you can do, but you are reluctant to pay for that. Additionally, if you would like a site for a given event such as a class meeting, a fundraising operation, or local elections, you may consider a charge-free web hosting account as you will not be restricted by any service-level agreements and you will not have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis for the website hosting package, which you may not even make use of once the event has elapsed.

Downside No.1: Forced Advertisements

Regardless of how satisfactory the cost-free web site hosting solution might seem, it also has weak points ? precisely because it is free-of-charge. Since the customers do not pay for their hosting plans, the only way for the hosting firm to offer this solution is to embed ads on every page of your site. Certain service providers even utilize popup windows and this may prevent your website visitors from exploring it or from coming back again in the near future. The commercials will also make any corporate web portal appear amateurish ? very few people would buy anything from a service provider that cannot afford to invest money in its own web page.

Weak Point Number 2: Limited Technical Support

There are some technical restrictions too. Because the hosting service is free-of-charge, the disk storage, monthly traffic and file size quotas are normally very insufficient, while electronic mail or database support is not always present. You can upgrade either the whole plan to a reliable hosting package, or you can upgrade only one single feature, such as disk storage, depending on the upgrade options provided by the free hosting distributor that you utilize. Another weak side is that you may get restricted or no client and tech support and that there is no warranty for the stability of the web hosting servers. Every web hosting vendor would like to offer reliable services, but since you do not pay a dime, as is the case with the cost-free site hosting service, you cannot expect to receive such services.

Inexpensive Web Site Hosting - The Preferable Alternative?

Considering the advantages and disadvantages of the free-of-charge site hosting solution, you can elect whether you want such a solution or a professional one. Certain web hosting hosting companies such as '9 Cube Hosting ', for example, offer an array of regular web hosting packages that are quite cheap and extremely exceed the resources offered by any free-of-charge hosting plan.