It really depends on what your needs are and what you are trying
to accomplish. There are advantages and disadvantages for both
paid and free web hosting.
Free Web Hosting
Advantages:
- The most obvious benefit is that it's free.
- You can use your free web space to practice programming. Not
many, but some free web hosting plans support a programming
language such as PHP, ASP, CGI/Perl, Coldfusion
or JSP.
- A free
web hosting plan is great for creating a small personal
website.
Disadvantages:
- A bunch of free web hosts place their banner and text ads on
your website.
- With a large number of free hosts, your website is placed in
a sub-domain or a folder (www.yourwebsite.freehosting.com or
www.freehosting.com/yourwebsite) which sometimes results in poor
search engine rankings.
- Because they are offering free hosting, the majority of free
web hosts can not afford to offer 24/7 or any support.
- Very few free web hosts offer a control panel with their
plans.
- Another flaw with free web hosts is many don't allow FTP
access which is an obstacle if you have many files to upload.
- Free web hosting plans don't offer much disk space or data
transfer. This could be a problem if you have a lot of large
files or if your website generates a lot of traffic.
Paid Web Hosting
Advantages:
- With paid hosting, you will now have any unwanted text or
banner ads placed on your website.
- Your website will not be placed in a sub-domain or folder.
You will have your own domain name (yourwebsite.com) which will
not only result in better search engine rankings, it also looks
more professional.
- Most paid web hosts offer 24/7 support.
- A lot of paid web hosting plans offer a control panel such as
cPanel, Vdeck, Plesk or Ensim which offer features like web
stats, the ability to password protect directories, and the
ability to create web based email accounts.
- Most paid web hosts offer FTP access.
- The majority of paid web hosting plans support a couple
programming languages such as PHP, ASP, CGI/Perl, Coldfusion
and JSP.
- With the more disk space and data transfer you get with paid
hosting, you can add more files to your website and it can
handle more traffic.
Disadvantages:
- The only disadvantage here is that it's not free.
About the author:
Brian Shoemaker is the owner of the cheap web hosting
directory Find-A-Web-Host.com (offering a f
ree script installation when you choose a web host from the
directory) with web hosts offering af
fordable web hosting.
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