Here are the main 10 reasons we want you to stay away from free web hosting. We had been doing web hosting review for more than 3 years, and encounter endless free web hosting that can promise you all-in-one web hosting for free. Give it a try, search at google and you will found free web hosting that offering mysql & cpanel, and no ads, no banners, no popup in it. cPanel is not a free hosting software, and without ads in free hosting plan is almost not possible, its the revenue source.
GeoCities one the largest free web hosting provider had closed down recently, even with ads, simply because the free web hosting model don’t work. There is not enough revenue source to cover the expenses in facility and human resources requirement. This is the main issue in free web hosting model, and it won’t last long. Following are the top 10 reason why you should stay away from free web hosting plan.
- There is no control. Very limited website control and editing, you have to edit websites using the web builder provided.
- Very limited usage. You can’t have own scripts installation, just htmls and javascripts, and off-course you can’t setup own forum, blog, ecommerce or cms at free hosting.
- Very limited resources. Your free web hosting only come with tiny storage space and bandwidth. Slow server too.
- Very unreliable. Your website can be terminated the next day.
- Banner ads & popup ads. You don’t want to have irrelavent ads showing in your personal or business website either.
- There is no technical support. Don’t hope to get any free support from your free web hosting provider, its going to be sucks either.
- Bad reputation. Host your business website at subdomain is bad for your reputation, eg. yourbiz.freewebhosting
- Not portable. Your website created and hosted at free web hosting are not portable, you can’t transfer the files out, as you don’t have the FTP access at all.
- Overcrowded server. Your websites will be hosted with other ten of thousand websites sitting in the same free hosting server. It would definately be very slow.
- Beware of extra charges. Some free web hosting come with string attached, you have to signup other service or purchase domain name at high price just to entitle for free hosting account.
Above are the 10 reasons to stay away from free web hosting services, and never ever host your websites at free hosting account. Look for low budget web hosting plan, we recommend ix web hosting that start from $3.16 per month, very affordable and its come with technical support and free dedicated IP addresses, and for sure you can host own scripts which including forum, blog, ecommerce and cms websites.
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2 Responses to “10 Great Reasons to stay away from Free Web Hosting”
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June 17th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Web hosting service’s cost has risen in recent year, and this has put pressure on free hosting business. There are less and less free hosting services online, and this is how unreliable they are, gone in anytime and unable to fight challenge.
June 17th, 2011 at 11:53 am
Websites hosting in free hosting plan is not owned by the user, its owned by the service provider. Its not protected, and your sites can be hacked and stolen from you overnight, or worst they can be sold to third person and its nearly impossible to get it back. This is another good reason to stay far away from free hosting no matter how good they are right now.