Anyone can really get free web hosting – True?
Of course, there are hundreds of free hosting web sites, as far as not having to pay any money to have your website hosted. Usually they either cost you in time, web hosting restrictions, or modifying your free web pages by adding popups, banners, or other adverts. While looking for free web hosting (especially on search engines), you should beware that there are also a large number of commercial web hosts that claim to offer free hosting services, but those often have a catch, such as paying an unnecessary amount for a domain name or other service, and therefore aren’t really free.
Do the free web hosts make money?
Obviously, the free website hosts often make money in other ways, such as putting banners, popups, or popunders ads on your free webpages. Some free web hosting companies do not put ads on your site, but require you as the webmaster to click on banners in their control panel or signup process, or just display banners in the file manager in hopes you will click them. A new method that is becoming popular is requiring a certain number of excellence forums posting, typically as a means of getting free content for them and thereby being able to display more ads to their website visitors.
Are they reliable?
Generally no but even though there are a few omissions. If the free host is making money from banner ads or other revenue sources directly from the free hosting service, then they likely will stay in business, provided someone doesn’t abuse their web hosting server with spam, hacking, etc., as often happens to new free web hosting companies with liberal signup policies. It is best if you choose a very selective free hoster which only accepts quality sites.
Are they personal or professional?
Free web hosting is not recommended for businesses unless you can get domain hosting from an ad-free host that is very selective. Other reasons for using free hosting websites would be to learn the basics of website hosting, have a personal website with pictures of your family or whatever, a doorway page to another web site of yours, or to try scripts you have developed on different web hosting environments.
