Free Web Hosting - Should you get a free web host?

What are the problems with free hosting plans??

When you’re ready to choose a web hosting provider, many choices come up. One of your decisions will be to choose free or paid web hosting.

A web hosting service that’s free may be a good choice for you. Want to host a blog? A free web hosting service can handle that with no problem. Want to have an online store? A free or even cheap hosting provider is not for you.

Free hosting plans generally come with some limit on bandwidth. Has your page ever come up as: “This user has exceeded their bandwidth for the month. Please try again next month” These people are using free or cheap web hosting providers and hitting the limits. If you hit this bandwidth limit, for the rest of that month anyone going to your page will see that message. It wouldn’t matter if you posted an important update, no one could see it.

If you have a basic blog with a few updates for your family, bandwidth won’t be a problem. If you want to get past the basic web page and start setting up video clips, there’s the problem. Bandwidth on even a short video clip would equal thousands of regular text page views. One video clip to a few people can take up your entire bandwidth for the month.

Another problem encountered with free web hosting is advertising. A free web service needs money to stay alive just like you, when you don’t pay advertisers will. When you provide content to be published, they can link in to certain words to promote products, sell banner ad space on the sides, etc. They key here is that they are choosing what runs and what doesn’t. If you’re talking about the PETA movement and the abuse of animals - do you want a banner for a dog food company? The text of your article could provide keywords for things you’re speaking about, so it would be possible to get conflicting messages. What if you have something against a certain advertiser? With a free web host it wouldn’t be possible to refuse space for that advertiser, it’s free and you get what you pay for.

To decide on getting a free web host, take a look at what you want for your content. To publish an article or get a general blog going, a free provider can be a step in the direction you’d like to go. For more specific content or for a professional appearance, you’ll want to go to a reputable web hosting plan.

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Originally posted 2009-05-03 23:20:51.

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