Advantages:
In today’s competitive world, the least a smart person can do is getting your site on the World Wide Web. In this modern world when everything is at the click of a button, everyone surfs on the Internet. Getting your site on Internet means, attracting potential customers all over the globe. Imagine profits pour in! To get your site on the Internet, you have to choose web hosting service provider.
In today’s world in terms of money or finance, there are two types of web hosting.
Paid Web hosting
Free web hosting
Free web hosting:
It is said everything comes for money. Nothing is free in this world. There is an give and take process. This same old saying and rule applies for free web hosting as well. There is a dark side to web hosting. This dark side is undisclosed and hampers your success. But there are two sides to every coin. It is not necessary that all hosts are bad or indecisive. There are some points which are in favour of free hosting. Let us look into brighter side of free web hosting.
Advantages
Free of cost
The best part of free hosting is that it is absolutely free!.There is no need to spend a single penny. Wow!
Best choice for personal website
To create a small personal website, free web hosting is the best choice. Students who want to try for a small project can opt for free web hosting.
Source Of Revenue
Web hosting may work as a source of revenue for people who can play the role of re-sellers for web hosting companies or perform as server based Network or Affiliates to other who pay commissions to such clients.
Link Popularity
It is not necessary that the website maybe removed within 24 hours. Certain reputed old companies like Google Blogger and Yahoo Geocites which help increase your link’s popularity.
These are the points which are in favor of free hosting. Thus proper care should be taken to choose a good host. A good host is like a dedicated mother who cares for her baby for 24 hours.
Disadvantages(The Dark side):
Free hosting has dark side to it which may hamper ones success. Let’s check the silver lining in a cloud.
Advertising
Advertisement being the only source of their business, the web host may ask you to advertise various products to sustain their business. As there is no option, you have to accept their demands. If the advertisements posted do not have any relevance to your website, this may lead to loss of popularity of your website, thereby damaging your reputation as well as your business.
Lack of guarantee
Since there is no guarantee, the website can be removed the very next day or later. There may also be a permanent removal of your site from the search engines, which may lead to real problems. In today’s world the popularity of site is gauged by how old its existence is, and its place in search engines.
Limited Bandwidth
Since there is limited bandwidth provided by the host, once the allocated bandwidth is utilized, your site will not be accessible to anyone. In order to continue hosting ,there will be a payment required by the host, thus converting your free web hosting to paid web hosting.
Minimal Customer Support
Due to budget constraints, the free web host can provide only minimal customer support and the user has to rely on FAQ’s provided on host website to resolve queries.
Website Up-time
The up-time of one’s website in unpredictable like climatic conditions. One has to keep his fingers crossed for host server to be up all the time.
Thus the lesson learnt from this article is that if one knows about the dark secrets of free web hosting, he will be prepared to resolve/overcome any possible issues before they arise.