What is Free Web Hosting and What are the Pros and Cons of Free Web Hosting

In this article about free hosting we will learn about the one of the hosting type that is free Web hosting. Here we discuss about the advantages and disadvantages of free web hosting.

Free website hosting is a free non-paid web hosting service. There are many web hosts who provide sub domains to anyone who want to make website. Some of such popular free web hosts include Blogger and Wordpress. When you make your websites with these free website hosting services, your website gets such name as yoursite.blogspot.com and yoursite.wordpress.com. If you want to get a website with a domain name that doesn’t include any external site’s name, you must buy domain and then get web hosting which is usually a paid service. However, there are many web hosting companies that provide free web hosting with some or the other products/services that you buy from them.

Free web hosting can be a good choice when you just want to build a non-critical website for fun. Very often in a free hosting environment, connection speed is slow, website can be down frequently, and advertising banners is automatically added to your website. Some companies require you to purchase your domain name to receive free hosting services from them, while others offer you a free subdomain under them, such as name.webhost.com. Be careful as you will not be able to transfer these free subdomains.

In Free web hosting the monthly bandwidth allotment might be limited as well , if you web has a large number of visitors, it will require more bandwidth. The challenging part of this is that you may experience traffic spikes when least expected and be left with a sudden shortage of resources. If traffic is important, make sure your free web hosting plan comes included with sufficient bandwidth to support your current and future traffic requirements.

Storage :

Disk space refers to the amount of storage space assigned to you by the free web hosting provider. This space will be used to store your web site files, including text, images, audio, etc. files you use for your website.

Bandwidth :

Bandwidth refers to the amount of traffic that is allowed to access and leave your website. Access means every time a visitor types in your website name in their browser. Leave means every time a visitor receives something from your website, whether it be viewing a photo, listening to an audio clip or downloading a file.

Free Emails :

All most all free web hosting companies will provide free email accounts to the customers. No of email account they will provide is based upon the web host company. Some companies provide 2 free email accounts and others will provide more.

Ads :

In free web hosting you may get ads displayed on your created web pages. This is because you are under free user plan. By supplying ads on your website the hosting company will get the money.  In paid hosting we doesn’t get any ads displayed by default. If you want to display your own you can.

Pros :

1.       Free Service

2.       Free Website Builder

3.       Free Email Account

4.       Support

Cons :

1.       Limited Bandwidth

2.       Ads Serviced

3.       Extended URL with hosting company name