Free web hosting Facilities & Limitations

top9 · #1 (**permalink**) 12-25-2006, 06:56 PM

Free web hosting Facilities
It's for free. You don't need to pay for domain name.

Free web hosting Limitations
Your URL will be something like Merchant Account . As I noticed above, the advantage is that you don't need to pay for domain. But note that if you move your website to another provider in the future you can loose some or all your traffic.
Your provider will probably include ads to your pages - usually 1 or 2 banners, sometimes popup windows. If you plan to use banner exchange on your site read carefully their Terms and conditions. Some free hosts doesn't allow it.
Free hosts usually allow lower bandwith then paid hosts and a lot of them don't offer futures like PHP and MySQL.
A lot of free hosts change their Terms and conditions during some time. If your free host offers hosting without ads now, don't be surprised when banner or popup appears on your site in the future.

crnl_cornel · #2 (**permalink**) 03-19-2007, 03:28 AM

Well if you want to make something professional...the better way is to pay for host and for domain name....the money will come back soon...from advertising...links..and so on.

andyf · #3 (**permalink**) 04-03-2007, 05:43 AM

Paid hosting is always better for many reasons.... security, peace of mind and other thing you get what you pay for. there are less chances of downtime and you get technical support also if you have some problem.
You decide whether to allow advertisement on your site you have full control of your webspace and bandwidth...