Facilitating space has turned into the main thing for distributing a site or a blog. This is the first thing we use before even making the site because everything depends on “WHAT WEBHOST YOU USE?”
Most of the webhost provide a free plan along with the premium version also but there is a overflowed market of those webhosts that provide you free webhosting space and advertise so brilliantly that you forget the basic rule of human society that “NOTHING IS FREE.”
Free webhost being free are those services that a newbie will need to develop his/her skills for web designing and gaining a little experience before coming into the open field of professionally used websites.
Few companies provide free webhosts for a limited time so as to gain the popularity and customers. Free webhosting is not necessarily bad but is not good also because you are restricted by many boundary conditions, just like a tiger in the cage.
The best part of free hosting is that you don’t have to pay but just spend complete time on your website designing and publishing it. Many webhosting companies require you to upload files using their own uploader which generally is not that efficient but others allow you to use FTP softwares which not only are efficient but also fast. But the best solution they offer you is to switch to their commercially used premium plans, means pay them for using.
There are many things that you can’t perform or they are less efficient when you are using them like storage space and bandwidth usage. They either won’t give you sufficient storage space or will put restrictions on it. The worst part is that the bandwidth usage is so much restricted that if you host a site that has 10 visitors daily then your website will be down for few hours every day.
The reason will be high resource usage {as told by the webhosting service}. These are few tactics that these web hosting services use to encourage people to their premium plans. The other major restrictions are use of Domain name and Database {SQL}. You are not allowed to use a domain name in many cases and what you get is a sub-domain of that webhosting site only. There is a limit on the creation of databases as they are generally restricted to 1 in most cases.
If you want to use sub-domain of your own site like for example hosting a mobile site in your own site will require a sub domain name of your site with mobile or mobi or m or any such demarcation for knowing that you are using a sub domain site.
Another major disadvantage is that you don’t get to make FTP account users more than 2 {in nearly all cases}, as well as there is a restriction on the E-mail account that you can create using your site to 1{nearly in all cases}. You will lack the professional look when it comes for using the E-Mail for the marketing and other purposes as your E-Mail will be like an E-Mail id or your sub-domain site {customer@demo.com}.
Another disadvantage of using free webhosting is that you are not given any extra support like backup, customer service so if anything goes wrong you have to figure it on your own, security, script installing, redirecting URLs. Checking stats or encryption is not given as well as many hosting site paste their own ads when they are providing free services to you. In short you can’t control your website like you should be.
But still many won’t allow you to add Meta tags to your site
and everyone know without Meta tags our search engine rack goes down. Many
won’t allow you to change the filenames or tags on images.
Few webhosting companies have started providing extra feature so as to gain a lead in this competing world.
Few free webhosting are very good like Google’s Blogger as it allows you to host as many blogs as you can and even allow you to monetize them for generating revenue for the site but you won’t be satisfied as you should be if owning everything. Another good example or should I say the currently hot is WORDPRESS which also allow unlimited website hosting but they have a storage limit.
The latest trend that became popular was posting on that companies forum rather than paying them but still they won’t give you everything as they should have if you were a premium member.
So friends if you are planning to start a site or blog just for fun then use free hosting and if you are serious about them go for the commercial plans as that the only thing that would make the hosting sites provide you with every tool you’ll need.
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