Free web hosting means host your website with a company without paying anything. All kinds of web-host have their advantage and disadvantage. However, before deciding to which web solution you go, you should study the choices, in order to invest your effort, money and time. For personal site, or non-profit page; the free hosting will fulfill your basic needs without paying a penny. Nevertheless, free host will not provide a professional service for business owners, or e-commerce professional who is looking for credibility, because it always looks “cheap”.
One of free web provider problems is the limitation of traffic and the files sizes and lots of down time in the servers. The servers speed is also much slower relatively to the paid ones as the servers tend to be overly crowded; obviously they seem to be unreliable. These providers are forcing the customer to place an advertisement of the web-hosting provider on the web page.
One of my friends asked me to recommend a free web-host. It would be terribly hard to advise someone about any free hosting company. I found many people hate the advertisements that are placed on their pages or other limitations in bandwidth, files and no backup.
On the other side, there is cheap webhosting providers can be used by webmasters to keep things running smoothly in business with low budget. You can have excellent customer service support and if you have affordable and not pricy hosting, they will offer a 100% customer satisfaction guarantee with live chat support and telephone line services for customers who experiencing difficulties and of course the email ticketing.
At the end, you should most probably not take free web hosting unless you are just simply practicing putting a website up, if you want to remain running, you should go for a paid account, the prices nowadays is ignorable yet the level of service difference between the paid and free web-hosting services is immense.
Written by: Jim Fonda