Free web hosting services

Are free web hosting services reliable? This is a question that comes to the mind of everyone who has intentions of creating a website. Sadly, the answer is no! Free web hosting services are extremely unreliable and for this reason, I would stay away from them. If you are serious about making a website that makes money, I would suggest you to buy a good web hosting package. There are many good web hosting companies and it doesn’t cost more than $10 for a very good shared hosting account.

Free web hosting services are unreliable because you don’t pay them and so they are not responsible to you. This is usually mentioned in their terms of service (TOS). Most of the free web hosts do not offer any kind of customer support. If the server goes down or you get some errors, all you can do is to wait for them to fix it up at their leisure. On the other hand, paid web hosts offer a much better customer support and if something goes wrong you can always call them and clear matters.

How do free web hosting services operate? There are many types of free web hosts. Some of them put ads on your pages. When somebody clicks on these ads, the web hosts makes some money which covers the web hosting costs. The disadvantage with these hosts is that these ads are really ugly! However hard you try, these will never blend properly. Some hosts also add annoying pop-ups to the pages. There are some hosts that do not put ads on the pages. Instead, they put ads inside the control panel. It is better to use these hosts, but the threat of the web host going out of business still exists.

There are other web hosts that provide free web hosting in exchange for participation in their forums. These are usually started by new forum owners. In an attempt to boost the popularity of their forums, they may provide free hosting. However, you have to make a certain number of posts every month to keep your account alive. The disadvantage with these web hosts is that you have to spend certain time participating in their forums. These forums are usually full of rubbish or copy-paste content which the users post to keep their account up and running.

I would suggest you to stay away from free hosts at all costs. If you are serious about creating a good website, you should buy web hosting. Web hosting costs have come down significantly in the recent years and so it is possible to get very good hosting for pocket change!

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