Free Web Hosting vs Paid Web Hosting

[marsh]

The revenue that the paid web hosting service companies get is through the fee that is paid to the company by the web site owners. In case of free web site hosting companies, the main source of income are the ads and banners that can be placed on their clients web pages.

The main advantage of using a free web site hosting service is that they are free of cost and hence make a perfect choice for people who are new into the business and are just looking to start out. They are perfect for people who just want to display a minimum content on the World Wide Web in small amount of web space. The other advantage of using the free web site hosting service is that most of these companies provide integrated, easy tools to upload the pages on to the hosting account. They do this realizing the fact that the free web site hosting services are generally utilized by the newbies.

There are also certain disadvantages of using the free web site hosting services. When using the free web site hosting service, you are forced to place the ads and banners by the web site hosting company on your web pages. Also the revenue that is obtained by the ads goes to the web site company. In case of paid web site hosting service, ads and banners placed on your web site are according to your will and the revenue of the banners and ads placed on your web site goes in your pocket. Also in some case of free web site hosting, the domain name of your web site starts with the web site hosting company name followed by your web site name. This is not the case of paid web site hosting service. You get a unique web site domain. The web space provided by free web site hosting service is limited whereas in case of paid web site hosting service you can buy the web space according to your requirements.

[Lovely]

Yes, most of the free web hosting will ask you to put ads and banners by the web site hosting company on your web pages, lots of ad on your control panel as well. But Domain name registration will not ask you to put advert or banners for them on your website. You will enjoy your free web space as if it is paid hosting, but with a one time setup fee.

[casius]

Not necessary. There are some free web hosting services those do not force to put advertisement in their web host. The thing is about free web hosting companies that:
1. So of them earns from forced advertisement;
2. So of them do not earn of advertisement;

We only different about free web hosting with no ads and paid web hosting is that resources and features are limited. Thank is the only difference.

[Alecto]

The main difference between paid and free hosting sites tends to be quality of service.

In my experience (from a long time ago) Free hosts just can NOT offer the same support, uptime or features that paid hosts can, this is due to the limited income for free hosts.

Very few free hosts can use the money they earn to improve their service, simply because they don't earn enough to do so; most just manage to cover the cost of the server and get nothing for their time; which is why many free ads close down after a short amount of time.

Obviously, there are some exception, it is possible to get a reliable free host, but they still don't meet the par when compared to paid hosting in my opinion.

[dtZHosting]

ads, no cpanel, no support. thats what u get with free.. it sucks
hosting is dirt cheap these days.

[123Systems]

Free hosting tends to attract some pretty nasty clientele, Which will do some of the following things.

1.) Use up most of the web servers resources with resource intensive scripts

2.) Get the IP blacklisted from bulk e-mailing.


Free web hosting is normally not a great way to go because you don't get a lot of support, You usually get a off-brand control panel that is buggy, And you in the end need to upgrade because of your needs.

[Alecto]

Free hosting still has it's place in the market though.

I think it's a good educational tool for kids who have developed an interest in web design or development, but have parents who aren't willing to pay for something they don't know a lot about.

It's just not a realistic option for businesses or large forums/personal sites.

[casius]

when if you have small webiste you definetely will choose free web hosting

[rochardgems]

I think Free web hosting is good as, well basically it's free but free web hosting site don't get much traffic as compare to the paid web hosting.If you have small than free web hosting is best and you have Big than the Paid web hosting.That its really depend on you planning.

[Banners Mall]

Free hosting :
1. Ads - with free hosting, your website could be drowned with ads.
2. Webspace - free hosting - limited, usually between 50 MB - 100 MB.
3. Monthly Bandwidth - free hosting - 1 GB, if you are lucky 2 GB; just when your site gets popular and attracts traffic, it may disgracefully crash with bandwidth this small.
4.Up time - free hosting - you cannot expect free web hosts to care so much about your website when their server is down.

Paid hosting:
1.Paid hosting - normally ZERO ads.
2. Paid hosting - depends on your plan, you get what you pay for.
3. Paid hosting - offered as unlimited, but again, it really depends on the plan you paid for.
4. Paid hosting - you are promised 99.99% up time, and support is readily available when needed.

[Host4dost]

yea i am also agree that paid hosting is better as compare to free web hosting.In paid hosting someone is responsible for you but in free hosting there is nothing like that..so for me paid hosting best option to go with....

[WHUK]

Yes, Paid Hosting is always recommended if your business relies on your website. Paid Hosting is generally Secured and Managed as compared to Free Hosting. So you can concentrate on your Business and let the Hosting provider take care of the all the hosting related things.

[Addie.B]

In case of paid hosting there are no binding of the hosting provider upon you, (eg: to advertise his website on your domain) which is quite possible in case of free hosting.
Apart from this the service that you get from a paid host will definately be of a good level comparatively, as you will be paying for the services.