Choose Free or Paid Web Host ?
Posted by Spyros Panagiotopoulos in General Website Creation Tips, tags: free web hosting, paid web hosting, web host
I’m sure that all of you have wandered whether you should choose a paid or a free web host. Free, as opposing to paid web hosts have the advantage of no cost at all but many disadvantages too.
For starters, you cannot have the exact domain you wanted to. Free web hosting provides domains like yourName.company.net or something like that, but you always have the company name as the root domain and you are just given a subdomain and this is definately not good. Moreover, free web hosts give you limited and most times low hard disk size and allocated bandwidth for your visitors and may not include mysql databases, emails and such nice add ons.
Another GREAT disadvantage is that in order to make money, free web hosts show up ads in your site and most times LOTS of them, even popups. That is very bad for you, since there’s no real space for your own advertising, you get no money for the ads you show and you have absolutely no control of what kind of ads show up.
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