Pros and Cons of Free Web Hosting

[Haden]

Pros and Cons of Free Web Hosting
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Advantages to Free Web hosting

PriceGreat practice space and often a no pressure way to learn.Awesome for Personal or Educational websites.Great for communicating to small group or family.Great place to start a commercial website--to get your feet wet. If it succeeds you can move it to a paid site with more space and higher bandwidth limits.Disadvantages to Free Web Hosting Often your only naming option includes your Host's name. Example is one of my webpages which is on Googlepages.com The link is in my signature box.Many free web hosts will post their advertisements or banners on your site.Many free web hosts won't accept FTP access and do not support many programming languages.Usually there is minimal support for Free Web hosting. Your support will come from forums and or FAQs.Size of files and size of the website is often severely limited by Free hosts.Speed of most Free web hosts is way below average for the web.Data Transfer limits will hamper your website growth if it starts to generate a lot of traffic.You normally cannot use the website address as your email address.Advantages to Paid Hosting Most have a full featured Control Panel.FTP access for large uploads is always available.24/7 support is available often by phone or email or instant messenger.Web Based email accounts with your website as the name.Many Paid Web Hosting plans have an affiliate plan.Disadvantage to Paid Web Hosting Price

Every day there seems to be another dozen web hosting companies popping up. I believe the addition of Google as a free web host and most probably a paid web hosting company in the near future has many of the bigger web hosting companies sleepless. I have written a web page primer
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Google Free Web Hosting offers a reasonable 100 meg of file storage, 41 web templates and 4 page layouts. Your edits are automatically saved even if you forget to or get bumped off your internet connection. This is a really handy feature.



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Free vs Paid Web Hosting,
How to use Google's Free websites and website builder.


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[iibbssee]

Hi,

Try this site, free-whd.com. It is a free web host directory.

I am sure you'll find what you are looking for.

Regards.

[pranith]

How could and how long we can get the good quality by using free web hosting service?. I think free always will not be of the desired quality and long time use.