Free web hosting VS paid web hosting
Posted September 5th, 2010
There are two main types of web hosting services available in industry.
a- Free Hosting
b- Paid Hosting
Let’s compare and evaluate to get valuable results.
Free Hosts:
The type of hosting where you do not need to pay monthly or yearly bills is commonly known as free hosting service.
The major advantage of free services is no regular cost. Free hosts are best options for newbies who want to test and experiment web activities. They are also useful to share unimportant or usuall stuff with online community. You can easily experiment to test things out. Student can share notes and tutorials online for their own reference or as a general.
Free services are not recommended for business websites, important blogs or websites with valuable data. Free hosts offer limited features with no reliability. Free hosts do not own responsibility to provide you 99% up-time guarantee or technical support to your website, which means your website may go down for hours or day without any notification or your data is wiped out or deleted because of any technical reason. Many hosts display ads and banners on your website to make some profit. You have no control on these advertisements. Many free hosts do not allow you to take backup or have your own domain, which is a unique online identity for your product or brand. Being free services, free hosting companies are unreliable and unstable they can go out of business leaving you desperate. One of the popular example is yahoo free services, Yahoo is one of the industry leading website. Yahoo closed free services leaving many customers with no option but to quit.
Paid hosting services offer guaranteed features with quality and receive bills from their customers. The only disadvantage of paid hosting is that you have to pay them for their services regularly. Paid hosting services are extremely affordable these days as there is much competition in hosting industry. Cheap web hosting can save your money with quality services. You can get quality and rich feature by spending couple of dollars a month, which is not even a cost of ice cream cup.
In short Free hosting are best for experimenting and sharing unimportant stuff. They are not recommended for serious users having blogs, personal and business websites. It’s better to find a cheap web hosting company to save cost while enjoying quality services.
There are many good web hosts with cheap plans, some of them are Shopaserver ($2.5/month), Hostgator , Arvixe etc.
I personally prefer Shopaserver for extremely affordable packages bundled with rich features and performance. They have extremely affordable offers in cpanel hosting and reseller hosting.
Good luck!
