7 Reasons Not to Use Free Web Hosting

If you own your own company and want to have a presence on the web, free web hosting isn’t the option for you. Free web hosting is perfect for personal websites, or even smaller organisations or endeavours, but for any company which wants to be seen as respectable and professional, paying for web hosting services is a small price to pay.

1. You won’t have your own domain name. If your business aims to be taken seriously, it’s crucial that you have a website with your own domain name to make it easy for people to find you.
2. Your bandwidth and web space will be limited. Most basic websites would be fine on a free hosting service, but any website that requires moving images or videos will almost always need a paid hosting package.
3. Your website will be littered with third party advertisements. This is because your service is free, and the provider has to earn money somehow.
4. You won’t have access to web-building tools. Unless you want your site to blend into the background with all the others, web-building tools are crucial to build your own image and increase brand awareness.
5. You won’t have dedicated technical support. With a paid web hosting provider, you are guaranteed to have access to a support line when something goes wrong. If this happens with a free web host, it’s more likely that you’ll end up waiting days for a response and not even be able to speak to a human.
6. You won’t have any credibility. Free web hosting service providers are not obligated to obey to any moral or social ethics, and so your site might end up using the same host as a seedy website that you’d rather not be associated with.
7. You may be forced to generate traffic. Some of the worst free web hosting services will dump your site if it isn’t pulling in enough visitors, because whilst they don’t answer to you, they do answer to third party companies who are paying to advertise on your site.

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