Here’s why you should never go for free hosting

I am not sure how much you should expect from free hosting. It's a business going out of their own pocket to provide you a complimentary service, which for most small websites is certainly adequate. If you need more you should purchase paid hosting, $5 per month is nothing too outrageous, right?
 
Free hosting is like a free sample. The purpose of a free sample is to acquaint the consumer with a product. In addition, free samples is a good way to gather data for mailing lists of potentially interested customers.

Although an expensive method of targeting customers, if done right, conversions to sales can be high. With effective sampling, you can assist in the launch of a product through the word of mouth.

Giving out free samples is as an old tried and true marketing approach since the 1800s. So why all the controversy here?
 
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cloudegg said:
You must have come across companies offering free hosting and must have thought it’s great and painless to try them. But if you have tried them, you will know the problematic consequences of these fraudulent companies.Here’s a list of what you might lose and suffer from with free hosting:
1. Downtime
2. No support
3. No domains
4. No e-mails
5. Not much disk space
6. Limited bandwidth
7. Pop-ups
8. Lack of interactive features
9. Loss of content/data
10. May not be free forever

Hope this help?:)
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I absolutely agree with everything said above. Paid hosting is definitely better if you have any kind of expectations from your web host. Free web hosting is only for those who are ready to compromise on some/all the above mentioned points. :thumbup:
 
I agree. You will never get quality hosting for free. Inorderto give quality hosting, a lot has to go into infrastructure and servers. If you go free, you will nveer get all the features and reliability.
 
cloudegg said:
But if you have tried them, you will know the problematic consequences of these fraudulent companies
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Just because some hosts offer free hosting this does not make them fraudulent companies. If you go to a free host them you should read the companies TOS and the plan details. These will tell you what you get and dont get, It is then your choice whether you sign up with them or not. This is not fraud as they have told you what service and expectations you will get.
 
You cannot expect to have the best services , just enough to get you through. But for professionals to carry out their businesses and establishing themselves through their sites, paid hosting are best since it can offer more services and support that you need.
 
SolidShellSecur said:
I don't get why people do free. Hosting is how cheap now? And you get burned on that. If you want hosting that works do it for more then a mcds dollar menu deal.
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Some providers may use the notion of free hosting as a way to promote their services. Offer a small plan for free and if the customer is happy, when he needs more resources (disk space, IP's, hosted domains, etc) he will have to upgrade his plan to a higher one that is not for free anymore. It's actually a pretty good idea.
 
We don't exactly offer free hosting but we do offer a free hosting trial for 2 full weeks on our basic hosting plan which is not restricted and exactly the same as what a paying client receives ... 50 GB web space, emails, access to 320+ applications etc etc.
 
People dont use freehosting for the websites (good or big) mostly.

They use for testing or learning purposes.

Ya. Anyway the free hosting providers need to make money from you in another way.

Nothing which is good is not available FREE
 
you are right!

ChromeHost-Sid said:
with the prices for shared these days, why would anyone need free?
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for learning purposes maybe, when they do not care what the results will be.

Anyone going to put some efforts into their project choose shared web hosting or better solutions like VPS, dedicated or cloud hosting.

I fully agree with you, who needs any type of free hosting, when cheapest shared hosting packages cost around $1/mo.
 
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