Cheap Web Hosting: Free Hosting

As the name suggests, free web hosting is a free non-paid cheap web hosting service. There are many web hosting companies that provide subdomains to anyone who want to make website. When you make your websites with these free web hosting services, your website gets such name as yoursite.blogspot.com and yoursite.wordpress.com. If you want to get a website with a domain name that doesn’t include any external site’s name, you must buy domain and then get web hosting which is usually a paid service. However, there are many web hosting companies that provide http with some or the other products/services that you buy from them.

Why Choose Free Web Hosting?

The single biggest advantage of free web hosting is that it comes free of any cost. The web hosting providers aren’t suffering any losses due to this arrangement. When you make your free website with them, they use your websites to place advertisements, banners and other forms of advertising media to earn revenue. Sometimes, the revenue from advertisement is shared with the owner of the website and sometimes it’s not. The situation is altogether different when you get website hosted through a paid web hosting service. You have full control over your website and it’s your decision whether you want to place advertisements on your site or not. If yes, then the entirety of the revenue generated from the website advertisement banners comes to you only.

Free Web Hosting vs. Paid Web Hosting

Here are some major differences between free and paid web hosting services:

Customer support is missing in free web hosting. Something which comes free cannot be asked to come with value added services. If something goes wrong with your website, there’s no customer support for websites made with free hosting. On the other hand, paid web hosting services not only give technical support to the customers but they also provide them with help guides, tutorials etc.

Advertisements on your website are controlled by the web hosting company that provides you with the free web hosting. It can use pop-ups, banners or any other advertisement on your site of which you do not have control. If you have partial control, you may only decide what size of banner would be displayed and where. You will have no control over what advertisement will be placed on the website. On the contrary, when you avail paid web hosting services, you have full control over your website.

Low bandwidth and lesser data transfer capacity makes free web hosting vulnerable to greater downtime whereas paid web hosting gives you optimum bandwidth and data transfer for maximum uptime. You also cannot upload more images or videos when using free web hosting services as you do not get enough disk space.

This content was originally published by Navicosoft.