Free Website Hosting providers have cropped up everywhere on the internet. They claim that they offer Free Web Hosting but do they really stand by their words?
Let’s think through some logical reasoning behind this and how can a web hosting service be offered free of charge when data centres are so expensive to maintain and run.
Any business started, whether its website hosting or not, wants to make profits. If the business is not started to make profit, it is then not called business, it is called a “Charity”. You should know that starting a business to make loss is illegal and punishable under law. So if the motive of business is to make profit, how can a free website hosting help them reap profits.
Do you think that the web hosting provider invests literally thousands into their business & servers to offer you web hosting for free?
Do you know of any web hosting service provider that can provide or claims to provide free web hosting business that is making loss?
You probably are puzzled, how do they do it?
So you can’t find one website hosting business that offers free website hosting that makes a loss ! Thats because they are recovering the loss made by the hosting service through sale of other related products. Free hosting providers recover their cost through various means some of them are:
Initial Incentive: all the hype about the free hosting is short lived. Free hosting is offered only for few days or for a trail period and at the end of such period the charges roll in.
Virtually Unusable: the features in the free web hosting is so demeaning that you can’t even use it. For example, free hosting for only one page website with no support or value.
Ads Ads Ads: other means of recovering the free website hosting cost is to bombard your website or control panel with advertisements.
These are some of the tricks that free hosting companies play on you. Does it makes sense why you shouldn’t opt for free website hosting. Still want free hosting, then at least don’t fall for the ones that are described below.
There are few (not all of them) hosting providers that provide you free hosting but in offering it, collect your personal data. These data are then used to send Spam or even sold to various marketing agents who may fill your inbox or mail boxes with heaps of product offers. All that they want from you is your personal details and if possible your financial details. To get it they might provide you with no charge website but you should know that its in fact done to dupe you into misery.
If common sense prevails and you really want to venture out in the online world, then regular web hosting plan are the best choice. Stay out of the pitfalls of free web hosting. If something is too good to be true, it probably is.
There is no such thing “Free Lunch” in the business world.
Another resource regarding free website hosting can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_web_hosting_service
