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Free vs. Professional Web Hosting Services

By Anand

Web hosting services are really a very critical component of having a very good online traffic. After going through the complicated process of designing a web site, the next step is to look for a very reliable web host that takes your website to new heights. Although free website may appear to be a very tempting offer because of the nil charges for the domain name, the choice between free and paid web hosting service depends on the scale of your business.

If someone wants to have a professional website which can really cater to the demands of its customers, then free website hosting is not the right decision. It is only a viable choice when one is planning to construct a personal website for showing-off to friends, a hobby site or a review forum, basically any kind of a non-profit making site. It is because such websites do not require a lot of services like high file uploading, large bandwidth leading to lower website traffic and disk space. In free of charge web-hosting services, due to restricted ftp, the ability to transfer files is quite limited. Even standard software languages like MySQL and PHP are not used in such sites, unlike those of professional web hosting companies.

Also, gratis web hosting service providers are not very credible as the technical support is not at all reliable. Customer service, although available, varies. Moreover, due to hording a large number of websites on the same server, sometimes the technical support is not available when the server is down. Moreover, in times of high traffic, the ability to handle the site is quite limited. Paid services, on the other hand, provide brilliant 24/7 telephonic or email customer support to guarantee utmost satisfaction to their customers. It is not tough to check the reliability of such web hosting services, as they have testimonials of an umpteen number of contented customers to support them.

A very common problem occurring with the most of the free websites is that they usually suffer from very high downtimes due to sharing of the disk space by a large number of websites. But, this is not the case with paid web hosting services where high uptimes are guaranteed, almost 99.9%, users can claim a compensation if it is not fulfilled.

Another problem that is frequently encountered by the free web host customers is that they are showing a lot of banner advertisements on their sites. This is done to meet the expenses, as the site is free. But, these flashing banners or popup windows can be very infiltrating for the user, since it ruins the style and theme of a site and sometimes might even, scare the customer.

Since no payment is being made for the domain name, problems can arise in the future when you decide to shift to another service provider. You end up losing all your traffic.

Free and paid website hosting services, each have their own pros and cons, but it is up to you, to choose anyone of them, depending upon your resources and the level of expected services.

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