Free Web Hosting Services Analysed
Hosting space has become the most important thing for publishing a website or a blog. This is the first thing we use before even making the site because everything depends on “WHAT WEBHOST YOU USE?”
Most web hosts provide a free plan along with the premium version also but there is an overflow of hosts that provide you free webhosting space and advertise so brilliantly that you forget the basic rule of human society that “NOTHING IS FREE.”
Free web host, being free, are those services that a newbie will need to develop his/her skills for web designing and gain a little experience before coming into the open field of professionally used websites.
Companies provide free web hosts
Few companies provide free web hosting for a limited time so as to gain popularity and customers. Free web hosting is not necessarily bad, but it is not good either, because you are restricted by many boundary conditions, just like a tiger in a cage.
The best part of free hosting is that you don’t have to pay but just spend complete time on your website designing and publishing it. Many web hosting companies require you to upload files using their uploader, which is generally not that efficient, but others allow you to use FTP software, which not only is efficient but also fast. But the best solution they offer you is to switch to their commercially used premium plans, which means paying them for use.
There are many things that you can’t perform, and they are less efficient when you are using them, like storage space and bandwidth usage. They either won’t give you sufficient storage space or will put restrictions on it. The worst part is that the bandwidth usage is so restricted that if you host a site that has 10 visitors daily, then your website will be down for a few hours every day.
The reason will be high resource usage, as told by the web hosting service. These are a few tactics that these web hosting services use to encourage people to their premium plans. The other major restrictions are the use of the Domain name and the Database {SQL}. You are not allowed to use a domain name in many cases, and what you get is a sub-domain of that web hosting site only {customer@site.freewebhostingsite.com}. There is a limit on the creation of databases as they are generally restricted to 1 in most cases.
If you want to use an AAA sub-domain of your site, for example, hosting a mobile site on your site will require a sub-domain name of your site with mobile or mobi or m or any such demarcation to indicate that you are using a sub-domain site.
Another major disadvantage is that you don’t get to make FTP account users more than 2 {in nearly all cases}, as well as there is a restriction on the E-mail account that you can create using your site to 1{nearly in all cases}. You will lack the professional look when it comes to using the email for marketing and other purposes, as your email will be like an email ID or your sub-domain site.
Another disadvantage of using free web hosting is that you are not given any extra support like backup or customer service, so if anything goes wrong, you have to figure it out on your own, including security, script installation, and redirecting URLs. Checking stats or encryption is not given as well, and many hosting sites paste their ads when they are providing free services to you. In short, you can’t control your website like you should.
But still many won’t allow you to add Meta tags to your site, and everyone knows that without Meta tags our search engine rack goes down. Many won’t allow you to change the filenames or tags on images.
A few web hosting companies have started providing extra features to gain a lead in this competitive world.
A few free web hosting
Few free web hosting services are very good, like Google’s Blogspot,s it allows you to host as many blogs as you can and even allows you to monetize them to generate revenue for the site, but you won’t be as satisfied as you should be if owning everything. Another good example, or should I say the currently hot, is WordPress, which also allows unlimited website hosting, but they have a storage limit.
The latest trend that became popular was posting on that company’s forum rather than paying them, but still, they won’t give you everything as they should have if you were a premium member.
S,, friend,s if you are planning to start a site or blog just for f, un then use free hosting, and if you are serious about I,t go for the commercial pl,ans as that is the only thing that would make the hosting sites provide you with every tool you’ll need.