What you should know about free-of-cost web hosting

Lots of web hosting suppliers nowadays are providing cost-free web hosting plans, drawing more and more customers. The free service is okay if you keep a personal web page or if you are not willing to spend money for a paid professional website hosting account. Let's take a peek at some of the upsides and downsides of the free website hosting service in general.

Positive Aspect No.1: Cost-Free Hosting is... Free-of-Cost

The most important benefit is that you receive a top free hosting solution - this would exclude any costs connected with running a personal web page, an online blog, a forum, or even a small business page. Since the free website hosting companies are also offering standard shared hosting packages, they will endeavor to provide you with a solid service and to convince you that their hosting servers are reliable. If you obtain a reliable charge-free service, it implies that you'd receive an even greater paid service, so it is in their own best interest to offer you a good free-of-cost hosting solution. This will make you more prone to consider getting a cloud web hosting package from them in the not too distant future.

Benefit Number 2: Spares You Money

The free hosting service is a suitable alternative if you do not want to spend cash for your web site or you are making your initial steps in web design and want to determine how well you can do, but you are reluctant to spend money for that. In addition, if you want an online portal for a particular event like a class reunion, a fundraising mission, or regional elections, you may think about a cost-free web hosting solution as you will not be confined by any service contracts and you will not have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis for the web site hosting solution, which you may not even use after the occasion has passed.

Weak Point Number One: Forced Adverts

No matter how appropriate the free web page hosting service might appear, it also has downsides ? precisely because it is charge-free. Since the clients do not pay for their site hosting accounts, the only way for the hosting corporation to provide this solution is to put advertisements on every page of your site. Some web hosting vendors even make use of pop-up windows and this may prevent the guests to your website from examining it or from returning again in the near future. The ads will also make any company web portal look inadequate ? very few people would purchase anything from a web host that cannot afford to invest money in its own personal web portal.

Negative Point No.2: Insufficient Technical Support

There are some technical limitations as well. Because the hosting service is free-of-cost, the data storage, monthly bandwidth and file size quotas are typically very restricted, whereas email or database support is not invariably available. You can upgrade either the entire plan to a reliable hosting package, or you can upgrade just one single feature, such as data space, depending on the upgrade alternatives provided by the free web hosting company that you use. Another negative aspect is that you may receive insufficient or no customer and tech support and that there is no warranty for the durability of the hosting servers. Every hosting firm would like to provide dependable services, but since you do not pay anything, as is the case with the cost-free web hosting solution, you cannot demand to receive such services.

Cheap Hosting - The Preferable Option?

Taking into account the strengths and weaknesses of the cost-free hosting solution, you can decide whether you would like such a plan or a professional one. Certain web hosting service providers such as 'Snaphost Web Hosting ', for example, provide several traditional web hosting packages that are very cheap and extremely exceed the resources provided by any free-of-cost web site hosting package.