Free Web Hosting Is Not The Answer
Written by bmlengel on March 20th, 2010
If you do a web search you will find plenty of services offering free web hosting for your website. Although it sounds great getting a web hosting service for free, is it really all it seems? However there are plenty of disadvantages to free web hosting no matter how great it sounds.
- There is no such thing as a free lunch, and this is usually also the case with hosting your web site. The free web hosting providers still need to make some money as they cannot really provide bandwidth for free. The way they go about making their money is to place advertisements on your site as a condition of the service. The ads that are placed on your site are not chosen by you. You will not have any say if these ads are unsuitable. Without making any money from your website, a free web hosting service would not be able to survive too long.
- Free web hosting providers normally have a major problem with the amount of uptime they can provide. This would be a disaster if you are serious about turning your venture into a profitable one.
- You are unlikely to get good service support with free web hosting. These operations are usually held together by a shoestring and their focus will be on attracting advertisers.
- You could find that you will be restricted in the types of files that you want to upload and the amount of bandwidth you receive will normally not be sufficient. Some services insist that you use their templates for your web pages. This could have an adverse affect on the amount of visitors you site can attract. Your site could turn people away as it will more than likely look very amaterurish.
- Also many free web hosting providers will not offer you services such as free email accounts which are part and parcel of paid services.
Whenever you make your decision to enter the big, bad world of internet marketing, you should really have web hosting set up beforehand. The web hosting world can be a confusing one though for a newbie. For example, you may come across reseller web hosting or even linux web hosting while searching different options.
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