Does FREE Hosting works ??

Income depends on your ability to commercialize the product (how you do it is in your own hands). The best advice I can give you is to go search Flippa marketplace for free hosting providers that were or are for sale and study their financials (revenues/expenses). It'll give you a good understanding of how much they make in relation to their size.
 
Free hosting does actually work. We have offered it for sometime and we don't even place any banners, but the catch is that we are able to have clients grow with us and when they get professional and require much more than free hosting offers they will easily buy from us because they already know the reliability with servers. However one needs to exercise a lot of caution because many free hosting providers will crumble before their 3rd birth date and you don't want that to happen with your website.
 
You can incorporate free hosting into your hosting packages to have better results. If you start to offer free hosting to everyone, after a while you may find tons of spam on your web servers, low quality sites without having prospects of earning money. Instead, for the start, you can offer an 18 month hosting package to the first-time customers, at the price of the yearly accounts, this can work out better.

Truth is, real customers and business companies are not looking for some free hosting accounts, they need to have trust in your organization and this demands dedication and time and honesty.
 
In my opinion, it is always better to opt for a paid and managed web hosting platform. This is important because the web hosting platform supports the functioning of your website.
 
Ads on homepage, in cpanel and on sites is really the only way to turn a profit. But with the revenue from 15 free sites MIGHT match one paid customer.
 
I bet free hosting comes with a lot of trouble customers. Consumers who want to upload illegal content. I'd shy away from free web hosting.
 
I bet free hosting comes with a lot of trouble customers. Consumers who want to upload illegal content. I'd shy away from free web hosting.

Like I told before I spent many years in free webhosting. It is a lot of work and I end up tiding my security so high that I can't accept new orders. Why? Because from 200 orders / day only like 3 are legit. I use to have free webhosting with no ads, so the attraction was big for abusers. First step down was when because of abusers clicking like crazy on my ads (on my main website) make a lot of clicks and I end up to have my account closed, so no more money.

I had everything like a paid webhosting:
-cPanel, SSL login cPanel, orders using WHMCS, antispam etc, so most of the paid webhosting don't have those things, and many "sentinels" checking, checking and gain checking.

My recommendation never do free webhosting.


I worked like crazy for security, to avoid my IPs to be blacklisted etc.

and for what? I used to do free webhosting to create anti fraud methods and scripts.


Most of those free webhosting are run by kids, they don't know nothing about security that's why we have spam, and phishing websites.

P.S. And believe me, it is enough 5 minutes to ruin your 25+ years in security.

Regards
 
Hello Friends,

I have only one qt .. DOES FREE HOSTING WORK ?

If then what is their income.... :confused:
Free hosting is good to promote your services. Create a small plan for free, make sure it has a good quality and create bigger plans that are chargeable. When the customer needs more resources and his happy with your services he will consider an upgrade to a higher plan even if it's not for free anymore. :)
 
Yes Free hosting works but if you face any problem then there will be no support team to help you out

They generate revenue by pushing some adds in control panel and website
 
We have been providing free hosting trial which is indeed popular giving customers the chance to try our services without making any commitment.
 
If you are already a host and know how to protect your servers and how to track down the "naughty people" then like Artashes says, if you can monetize this you might make some money. (We used to)

However, from experience, as others had alluded to in other threads FREE hosting attracts the wrong sort of people, along with some genuine users.

If you follow the 90 / 10 rule than 10% of your users users try to use 90% of your resources, the "naughty people" will always win, causing slow servers for your genuine users, unless you know how to find them, and how to "pen them in".

If you are not already an experienced host, you will find this an extra ordinary training ground for spotting exploits, tracking down "naughty people" and finding out just how open Linux is until you harden it.
It's a sharp learning curve, and you will learn fast!!
If your pockets are deep enough it will be a worthwhile experience.

If you have the experience and fancy some philanthropy it's a great thing to do.

We stopped doing this however as it did not bear enough fruit, there were cheaper ways to get new paying customers, so we stopped providing free hosting and starting giving to kiva.org, the local street pastors and compassion as we found that a better use of our money.
 
We have been providing free hosting trial which is indeed popular giving customers the chance to try our services without making any commitment.

Free trials are great, but I think the OP was asking about a permanent free hosting solution.
They won't really make you rich in the long run, imo.
 
I think free hosting can be good in some ways and bad in other ways ...

Good: As free web hosting tends to be small packages, those on-board are very likely to upgrade to one of your paid packages at some point to access more resources and features etc.

Bad: Can attract bad customers and people that may never need to upgrade to a paid package.

In most cases and from past experience having your ad on a customers website will not cover what you are losing by giving away the free packages! For good ad revenue you need traffic and 90% of new webmasters will never see enough traffic to make it all pay off for you.
 
Free hosting is an uphill battle. I am sure that users will flock to a free hosting site but once they realize that they are dealing with advertising along with black listed IP's and a range of other issues then you lose the base for your ad distribution which is one of the best ways for a free provider to generate revenue. Your ROI could end up being very low. Some may make it work but overall it is a tough bridge to drive over.
 
Hosting has become cheap and basic plan can be affordable to any body. Free hosting is not as good as paid one because they do not provide managed hosting, no managed backups, and many spammers sign up for for such account.

Basically, it's always safe to signup for paid hosting rather then free hosting.
 
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