What you should know about free website hosting

Plenty of hosting vendors at present are delivering free-of-cost web hosting plans, attracting more and more clients. The cost-free service is okay if you keep a personal web site or if you are reluctant to spend cash for a paid professional website hosting plan. Let's have a peek at some of the upsides and downsides of the free-of-cost web hosting solution as a whole.

Strength Number One: Free Website Hosting is... Free-of-Charge

The greatest virtue is that you receive a top free hosting service - this would exclude any costs connected with having a personal web site, a blog, a forum, or even a small corporate site. Since the free web page hosting firms are also providing regular shared hosting plans, they will attempt to offer you a solid service and to convince you that their hosting servers are dependable. If you receive a satisfactory free-of-charge service, it implies that you'd obtain an even better paid service, so it is in their own interest to offer you a good free-of-charge web space hosting solution. This will make you more likely to contemplate buying a cloud web hosting package from them in the not too distant future.

Virtue Number 2: Spares You Money

The free hosting service is an appropriate alternative if you do not wish to give money for your web page or you are performing your first moves in website design and would like to discover how well you can manage, but you are not willing to pay for that. Also, if you demand a site for a concrete occasion like a class meeting, a fund raising campaign, or regional elections, you may consider a free web site hosting account as you will not be restrained by any service contracts and you will not have to pay on a monthly or yearly basis for the web hosting plan, which you may not even make use of once the event has gone by.

Shortcoming Number 1: Forced Adverts

Irrespective of how trustworthy the charge-free hosting service might look, it also has negative sides ? precisely because it is free. Since the clients do not pay for their web space hosting plans, the only way for the web hosting supplier to offer this service is to add adverts on each and every page of your online portal. Certain hosting distributors even avail of popup windows and this may discourage the visitors to your website from visiting it or from returning again in the near future. The ads will also make any corporate website seem amateurish ? few people would purchase anything from a hosting distributor that cannot afford to spend money for its own personal online portal.

Downside Number 2: Minimal Tech Support

There are some tech restrictions too. Since the hosting service is charge-free, the storage space, monthly traffic and file size quotas are usually very limited, whereas electronic mail or database support is not always available. You can upgrade either the entire plan to a reliable hosting plan, or you can upgrade just one functionality, such as server space, on the basis of the upgrade choices offered by the free web hosting firm that you use. Another disadvantage is that you may get minimal or no client and tech support and that there is no guarantee for the reliability of the hosting servers. Every web hosting service provider wants to provide reliable solutions, but since you do not pay anything, as is the case with the free web page hosting service, you cannot expect to receive such solutions.

Cut-Rate Web Hosting - The Worthier Option?

Weighing the positive and negative aspects of the free-of-charge site hosting solution, you can decide whether you need such a plan or a professional one. Certain web hosting hosting service providers such as 'NTC Hosting ', for instance, offer a bouquet of regular web hosting plans that are quite cheap and greatly surpass the resources offered by any charge-free web hosting package.