What you should learn about free web page hosting

A large number of hosting suppliers today are supplying free-of-cost web hosting accounts, tempting more and more customers. The free-of-charge solution is all right if you run a personal web portal or if you are unwilling to invest money for a paid professional web hosting account. Let's take a gaze at some of the strong and weak sides of the cost-free web hosting solution in general.

Virtue Number 1: Free Web Page Hosting is... Free-of-Cost

The biggest strength is that you receive a top free hosting solution - this would exclude any costs associated with managing a personal web page, an online blog, a forum, or even a small-scale corporate site. Since the free web hosting distributors are also offering standard shared hosting packages, they will strive to offer you a reliable service and to assure you that their web hosting servers are reliable. If you receive a good free-of-charge service, it implies that you'd get an even better paid service, so it is in their best interest to furnish you with a solid free website hosting service. This will render you more likely to consider ordering a cloud web hosting account from them in the future.

Positive Point No.2: Spares You Cash

The free hosting service is an appropriate alternative if you do not want to give cash for your site or you are making your first moves in web site design and want to learn how well you can do, but you are not willing to give money for that. Additionally, if you need a web site for a particular occasion such as a class gathering, a fundraising operation, or regional elections, you may think about a charge-free web site hosting account as you will not be confined by any service contracts and you will not need to pay on a monthly or yearly basis for the web hosting plan, which you may not even use after the event has passed.

Negative Sign Number One: Forced Advertisements

No matter how fine the free-of-cost web space hosting service might seem, it also has weaknesses ? exactly because it is free-of-cost. Since the customers do not pay for their website hosting packages, the only way for the web hosting corporation to provide this solution is to add adverts on each and every page of your site. Some web hosting companies even avail of popup windows and this may hinder your web site visitors from exploring it or from coming back again in the near future. The ads will also make any corporate web site appear inadequate ? very few people would purchase anything from a service provider that cannot afford to invest money in its own web portal.

Inconvenience Number 2: Insufficient Technical Support

There are some technical limitations as well. As the hosting service is free-of-charge, the web storage space, web traffic and file size quotas are mostly quite inadequate, whereas email or database support is not always available. You can upgrade either the entire package to a reliable hosting plan, or you can upgrade only one feature, such as hard disk storage space, depending on the upgrade possibilities offered by the free host that you use. Another shortcoming is that you may obtain insufficient or no client and tech support and that there is no guarantee for the durability of the web hosting servers. Every web hosting company wants to offer dependable services, but since you do not pay a single dime, as is the case with the free-of-cost webspace hosting solution, you cannot demand to receive such services.

Budget Web Hosting - The Worthier Alternative?

Considering the strong and weak points of the free hosting service, you can determine whether you require such a plan or a professional one. Certain web hosting web hosts like 'Westgate WEBS Hosting and Free Domains ', for instance, provide a bouquet of regular web hosting packages that are quite cheap and considerably surpass the resources delivered by any free-of-cost web hosting plan.