Free Web Hosting Pros and Cons

Free Web Hosting

Free Web Hosting has it's pros and cons. Most people are too scared to bother with free web hosting because they are worried about uptime, support, stability, hackers, spammers etc. However, there are tons of reliable companies online that offer excellent support and service. To find free web hosting companies, all you have to do is head over to Free Web Hosting Directory. There you will find the best rated free web hosting providers. It is recommended that you go through at least top 10 rated sites before picking the free web hosting service that suits your web hosting needs. If you are still confused over different free web hosting types, you can request assistance at one of the free web hosting forum - Free Web Space and Free Hosting Talk

Most companies offer different free web hosting packages such as "post for host", "ad-free web hosting" and your old fashion free web hosting with banners. "Post for host" package is basically where the client is required to make certain amount of posts in forum and in return they get free web hosting. "Ad-free web hosting" is basically free web hosting package that comes with no forced ads. Most companies offer this with limited features such as limiting the free web hosting space to only 150 MB or 200 MB.

Here are some Pros to free web hosting -

• saving money on monthly hosting bills
• set it and forget it
• can come in handy from marketing point of view
• most free web hosting companies are offering same features as paid hosting

Here are some Cons to free web hosting -

• Limited space and bandwidth
• File Size Limits

• Limits on features
• Very little or no support
• Forced Ads (Profuse Host is the only free web hosting provider that offers ads that are not forced and also offer package with no forced ads)

When selecting your perfect free web hosting, please make sure you look at the following in the free web hosting plan -

- Amount of Space. Most sites can be managed on 500 MB of space but we recommend that you have around 1 GB of free space

- Amount of Bandwidth. Bandwidth is not an issue if you are just planning to have a blog. However, you should look into higher bandwidth offers if you are planning to offer file downloads or video streaming.

- Programming language support. Your free web hosting provider should support languages like php, cgi, perl. PHP is the most common language today.

- File Size Limits. Verify with your free hosting provider if they have a limit of file size. Most free web hosting providers will place limits on the file size to prevent abuse on the servers.