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Free Web Hosting Or Paid Web Hosting – Which One Is Better For Your Website?
There are many different types of web hosting companies present on the internet that are offering their various web hosting services and related products to the people who want to get on to the exciting internet world. For example, there are the dedicated web hosting services, the shared web hosting services, the virtual private web hosting services, the collocation web hosting services, the shared web hosting services, and many other such hosting services.
These services are specific to certain web hosting features that make the services exceptionally efficient. Also, there are different specific operating system platforms that are present on the internet that are associated with all these services. For example, the Windows web hosting and the UNIX-based Linux web hosting are the most popular operating system platforms ones.
Similarly, there are yet other types of web hosting services, which are very important and can play a crucial role in the success of your website and the online business. These are the free web hosting services and the paid web hosting services. You should be very careful about which one to use for your long-term online business, as a single mistake in choosing the service can cause huge problems for you as well for your online business. So, before you get registered for any one of these web hosting companies, it is better to know about them in more detail.
Free Web Hosting Service
The free web hosting, as the name suggests, is totally free of cost. You do not have to pay anything to the web host for using their free hosting service. Usually, these free web hosting companies have a URL which consists of a domain name and a sub domain name.
For example, the URL will look like webhostsname.com/yourname. However, if in future if you decide to go for any other web hosting company, you will not be able to have the same URL for your new website which you might have optimized to get recognition and web traffic to your website.
The website’s URL is your identity that is recognized by all your visitors and customers. It is this identity, your URL, that is imprinted on all your visitors’ mind and any quality and reputation that associates with your service is chiefly recognized by the URL. Because of this, you are bound to lose all the web traffic that your old website had attracted.
Although you get lots of features with the free web hosting, like, the bandwidth, the disk space, the memory, some applications and software’s, and other types of web tools for free, they are not sufficient for you if you are planning to have a website related to your business.
You should only go for the free web hosting service if you are creating a website just for learning the web designing and for fun, and for exhibiting your initial skills in this field to display to your family and friends. In such cases, you do not need a high quality hosting plan, and even a basic web hosting plan like the free web hosting, would be enough.
There might be some advantages of using a free web hosting service. However, there are lots of disadvantages if you go for the free web hosting service. As stated earlier, if you are planning to have a website related to your business, then you need to go for a top-class paid web hosting plan.
This is because the free web hosting plan does not provide you all the necessary features and web tools that are essentially required by a business website. All the features that are provided by a free web hosting company are limited in nature and are of not much use if your website’s needs are anything above average.
Also, the free web hosting companies can anytime cancel their free services that they provide you. Sometimes, the free web hosting companies remove your website from their web server without prior notice, and ask you to pay more money in order to continue with their service.
Thus, you might have to pay them the money that they ask, or else be ready to lose the entire website and the business that you have painstakingly built up over the long time. Thus, if you want to go for a free web hosting service, you need to go through the terms and conditions of that free web hosting company properly.
Also, a free web hosting service contains a lot of free advertisement and banners about various other products and services and you have absolutely no control over what kind of advertisements are place and where they are placed on your web pages. Each web page of your website will contain a lot of ads and other banners which mostly occupy the most important parts of a web page. Because of this, you will not be able to place your own ads, banners, and content on these important places. Also, the free web hosting companies cannot provide the best customer support and security features as it is not possible to provide all the top quality stuff free of cost.
The important features like having a specific database, CGI scripts, PHP scripts, and other such important features are also not allowed by many free web hosting companies. These important features can really help you as they do not require much coding knowledge and yet are very powerful in making your website very versatile. You can simply download these features and scripts from the internet and use them in designing and developing your website, but the free web hosting service’s Terms and Conditions may prevent you from using these essential web tools on your site.
The free web hosting companies even provide different attractive and free applications like calendar, e-mail service, guest book, counters, and many others. However, there are many free web hosting companies that do not allow you to earn money by using their service, for example, you are not free to place affiliate links and earn money. They do not allow you to earn using their free service, and you must use their paid service if you are going to use their service to earn in any way from your website.
In short, these free web hosting services may hamper your website’s growth massively and you will only be able to optimize your website hosting in a much limited way, and according to how much these hosts want you to. This could hugely limit your website. There is always that risk that the free web host can easily use your website for their purpose after you have developed your website and generated much web traffic to your website. This has happened to many users and they have completely lost their website to these web hosts with all their efforts easily going to benefit only the host.
The free web hosting service is also not suitable for using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques that produces high web traffic. Without the web traffic, your website will not be able to generate much income for you. Then, the free web hosting services will not allow your website to become highly respected and popular due to the various above-mentioned facts. It is, therefore, not recommended to use a free web hosting service to host your important website.
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