Should You Use Free Hosting Service?
With the increase in online businesses, the need of web hosting space is also increased. Everyone wants make their site either for personal purpose or for business purpose. There are also many services available in the market that provides free hosting. Are these services reliable and should be used? In this article, we are going to discuss on free web hosting.
Free web hosting, as the name suggests give hosting service at no cost. There are many problems with free hosting service. The first problem is of domain names. You will have to select your URL in form of sub domain because free hosting providers don’t allow to host your own domain. Since it’s sub domain, you will have two dots(.) in the URL. For example, myhobbysite.freehost.com. Sub domains are hard to read by humans.
Free hosting providers put advertising on the hosted web site. This way they generate money to support their hardware and expenses of hosting service. If visitors see the ads which are not related to web site content, then they don’t trust on your writing. When visitors become unhappy, you lose your business.
When somebody visits your web site, some data transfer happens. In free web hosting service, you are given limited data transfer limit. When you reach your bandwidth limit, you account is suspended. Anybody visiting your web site will see only error and not your web site.
There are also many technical limitations in free web hosting account. You won’t get any database access. You are simply given ftp access. You are also not provided more secure access like SSH. Today many web sites have become dynamic and use PHP. These PHP support is not provided by free service provider.
Free web hosts can cancel your account at any time. You spend time in creating your web site and promoting it. Doing SEO and getting high ranking is not easy thing. You get that by hard work. What will happen when your web site is in high ranking and your hosting account gets suspended? You will lost all your hard work.
Free web hosting is not recommended for business purpose. Shared web hosting is available at very cheap rate. I recommend shared web hosting to host any web site.
