Why You Shouldn’t Use Free Web Hosting
There are several main reasons that you need to think about and seriously re-consider your thinking if you are considering using any of the free web hosting companies/services that are out there. You may think that you are getting a great deal when you are using one of the popular free web hosting providers out there; but you are actually going to end up dealing with more problems than you are even aware of that you even realize can possibly come up. The following are some of the problems that you are likely to have to deal with.
Little or no technical support
There is very little doubt that you are going to need some technical support when you have questions that need to be answered along the way. The problem is going to come in when you are going through the list of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and have to search all through the questions to find a small bit of information about the problem that you are dealing with. This not only gets very annoying, but is also cutting into the amount of time that you have to work with and reduces the productivity of your website.
Banner ads on your page
This is another thing that you will need to contend with if you are going to use one of the free web hosting services out there so that you can get started. There really is not that much of a problem with having pop-ups and banner ads on a web page that is for personal use; but you really do not want to have those things taking up space and taking away from the professional look and feel of your business’s website when you are starting to make your presence felt on the Internet.
Limited bandwidth and data storage space
The bandwidth is what determines how quickly web traffic gets onto and off of your web site as well as how long it takes for information to be processed when someone enters information (such as signing up for an e-mail newsletter or going through the checkout process). If you have your web page hosted through one of the many free web hosting services you may find out that you do not have nearly the bandwidth or information storage that you want or need.
Low or no e-mail storage
This is also something that is going to be a problem for you if you have a good clientele base and/or they choose to keep in touch with you via your web site’s Contact Us e-mail feature. Some of these free web hosting services offer you limited service in terms of e-mail addresses and e-mail storage space on their servers. There is nothing worse than thinking that you have a customer’s or client’s very important e-mail saved and then finding out that you do not have it saved in your website’s mail box due to insufficient storage space. You might want to re-think the decision to choose a free web hosting account.
