What you should understand about free-of-cost web hosting
Plenty of web hosts at present are supplying charge-free web hosting plans, seducing more and more customers. The free solution is fine if you keep a personal website or if you don't want to spend cash for a paid professional webspace hosting service. Let's have a glance at some of the strong and weak points of the free web hosting service in general.
Upside No.1: Free-of-Cost Website Hosting is... Free-of-Charge
The most significant advantage is that you obtain a top free hosting service - this would exclude any costs associated with keeping a personal web site, an online blog, a forum, or even a small-sized business web site. Since the free web hosting service providers are also providing standard shared hosting plans, they will endeavor to offer you an adequate service and to convince you that their web servers are trustworthy. If you receive a dependable free service, it means that you'd obtain an even better paid service, so it is in their own best interest to furnish you with an adequate free-of-charge webspace hosting service. This will make you more inclined to think about getting a cloud web hosting plan from them in the future.
Strong Point No.2: Saves You Cash
The free hosting solution is a decent choice if you do not wish to spend cash for your web page or you are performing your first moves in web design and wish to learn how well you can do, but you are not willing to pay money for that. Plus, if you need a web site for a particular occasion like a class meeting, a fundraising campaign, or regional elections, you may consider a cost-free hosting solution as you will not be constrained by any contracts and you will not have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis for the web hosting service, which you may not even utilize after the event has elapsed.
Inconvenience Number One: Forced Commercials
No matter how good the free web hosting service might appear, it also has disadvantages ? precisely because it is charge-free. Since the clients do not pay for their site hosting accounts, the only way for the hosting service provider to provide this service is to embed commercials on each and every page of your web portal. Certain web hosting vendors even avail of popup windows and this may hinder the guests to your website from visiting it or from returning again in the future. The ads will also make any corporate online portal appear inadequate ? few people would buy anything from a web hosting provider that cannot afford to pay money for its own personal site.
Negative Aspect Number Two: Restricted Tech Support
There are some tech limitations as well. Since the hosting service is free, the storage space, bandwidth and file size quotas are commonly quite insufficient, whereas email or database support is not invariably available. You can upgrade either the entire plan to a reliable hosting package, or you can upgrade just a single functionality, such as web space, based on the upgrade options given by the free hosting firm that you utilize. Another minus is that you may be provided with insufficient or no customer and technical support and that there is no guarantee for the durability of the hosting servers. Every web hosting firm wants to provide reliable solutions, but since you do not pay any money, as is the case with the cost-free web site hosting service, you cannot insist on obtaining such solutions.
Moderately Priced Webspace Hosting - The Better Option?
Taking into account the pros and cons of the free webspace hosting service, you can determine whether you need such a plan or a professional one. Certain web hosting service providers such as 'Smartest Media ', for example, provide a bouquet of regular web hosting packages that are quite cheap and vastly surpass the resources supplied by any free-of-cost web page hosting plan.