What you should learn about cost-free web page hosting

A large number of web hosting distributors there days are offering cost-free hosting accounts, winning more and more clients. The free-of-cost service is suitable if you run a personal web portal or if you don't want to spend cash for a paid professional web space hosting solution. Let's take a look at some of the strong and weak sides of the cost-free hosting service as a whole.

Perk No.1: Free-of-Charge Hosting is... Free-of-Charge

The most positive aspect is that you obtain a top free hosting service - this would exclude any costs connected with administering a personal web page, a weblog, a forum, or even a small-size company web site. Since the free web hosting suppliers are also furnishing regular shared hosting packages, they will attempt to provide you with a stable service and to persuade you that their web servers are stable. If you receive a stable free service, it suggests that you'd obtain an even better paid service, so it is in their best interest to offer you an adequate charge-free hosting solution. This will make you more likely to consider purchasing a cloud web hosting plan from them in the not too distant future.

Perk No.2: Saves You Money

The free hosting solution is an appropriate choice if you do not want to give money for your site or you are performing your initial moves in web page design and would like to determine how well you can do, but you are not willing to spend money for that. Moreover, if you want a web site for a specific event such as a class assembly, a fund raising operation, or local elections, you may think about a free-of-cost web hosting service as you will not be restrained by any contracts and you will not have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis for the hosting package, which you may not even make use of once the event has elapsed.

Negative Sign Number 1: Forced Ads

Regardless of how acceptable the free-of-charge web space hosting service might appear, it also has negative sides ? exactly because it is free. Since the customers do not pay for their web hosting packages, the only way for the hosting distributor to provide this solution is to incorporate adverts on each page of your online portal. Some hosts even avail of pop-up windows and this may prevent your web page visitors from examining it or from returning again in the near future. The adverts will also render any company site look unprofessional ? few people would buy anything from a hosting vendor that cannot afford to give money for its own web portal.

Shortcoming Number Two: Restricted Technical Support

There are some technical limitations too. As the hosting service is cost-free, the server storage, traffic and file size quotas are normally quite inadequate, while electronic mail or database support is not always available. You can upgrade either the whole package to a reliable hosting plan, or you can upgrade only one feature, such as disk storage, based on the upgrade alternatives offered by the free web hosting service provider that you avail of. Another negative aspect is that you may be offered inadequate or no customer and tech support and that there is no warranty for the durability of the hosting servers. Every hosting service provider would like to offer stable services, but since you do not pay a single coin, as is the case with the charge-free webspace hosting solution, you cannot hope to obtain such services.

Moderately Priced Web Hosting - The Finer Option?

Examining the strong and weak points of the free-of-cost hosting solution, you can decide whether you would like such a plan or a paid professional one. Some web hosting hosting distributors like 'Duo Servers ', for instance, provide an array of regular web hosting plans that are very cheap and vastly exceed the resources provided by any free-of-charge website hosting package.