Free Web Hosting - Advantages vs. Disadvantages

A free hosting service is good for beginners and simple personal home pages. If you are new in websites world, you can learn a lot by hosting a free website, understand the basics of web development and web design.

Free Web Hosting Advantages

• The big advantage of free web hosting is the zero price. There are some free web providers that will not put ads and banners on your website.

Free Web Hosting Disadvantages

• Ads - Most free web providers impose ads/banners on your website.


• Disk Space - Usually you will have about 250-300mb of disk space only.


• Account Expiration - Some free web hosts will disable your account after default expiration time.


• File Size Limitation - Usually you cannot upload/store file bigger than a half megabyte.


• Technical Support - From my bad experience, sometimes I didn't receive any answer. So, if you have a problem ...


• Reliability - Before you are going to open a free web host account, try to get feedback from anyone about this free provider. And my recommendation, have a backup of your website.

*These are only the main disadvantages, for my opinion.

Learn more about free web hosting and paid web hosting.

Enjoy,
Alex Webs.

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