The Final Say: Free Web Hosting vs. Paid Web Hosting

Web hosting companies throughout the Internet offer you the ability to make your web site able to be accessed by everybody throughout the World Wide Web. There are a lot of companies offering web hosting services and there are a lot of specifications that make a certain web host better than another so it may be difficult. These web hosting companies offer the hosting service and also offer the basic Internet connection inside one of their data centers. There are a variety of web hosting companies out there and a lot of them have different stuff to offer. The two main hosting services available are the free and paid web hosting companies.

With the free web site hosting companies, you can put up your content on the server which is made available by the company for no charge. This would be great to people who are really new to the game, want to get used to the process of creating web sites before making the step, or are not looking to get too serious in the game. For any professional web site, it is suggested that you only use a paid hosting service because of the variety of choice. Free web site hosting usually means that there are annoying ads on the page and a limitation to what content can be on the site and in what mass.

If you want to keep your web site strictly on a professional level, take your presence seriously, and need a larger web space (in most cases you will), you should go for a paid web hosting service. If you expect to get much traffic at all, you will really need to get paid hosting because a free web hosting service usually can’t handle very much attack on the bandwidth.

With paid hosting services, they are still easy to manage – even for beginners. A lot of them include various programs which can really help you out when you are setting things up like the ability to automatically set up a WordPress blog without the need of doing all the coding work – Fantastico is a great addition to a lot of web hosts. The great thing about it for the very small web sites, even a cheap web hosting service from a place like GoDaddy is sufficient. If you are on the larger side, you may be forced to get your own dedicated server but that would rarely be the case.

The paid hosting services probably won’t provide step by step tutorials for everything but some of the free hosting services will do that as an extra incentive and this makes it even better for newbies. The main issue with the free web hosting services though is (besides the space limitations) that they make you place ads and banners on your web site and they take up a bit of advice and are annoying – you usually can’t adjust any of the coloring so it could clash very badly with the colors on your web site.

The revenue of the ads and banners goes directly to the hosting company and some of the free web hosting services don’t allow you to post any ads at all so making money from your web site would be limited to an alternative income stream. Usually it will be a domain like yourdomain.freewebhosting.com and that isn’t exactly intriguing for most web sites.

The verdict would be that a personal web site could work on a free web hosting server but if you are looking to have a professional web site and take things serious, you should at least chip in a few bucks a month to use a paid web hosting service.

Written by Admin on December 12th, 2008 with no comments.
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