Let's compare Free Web Hosting 2055 vs Paid Web Hosting.

 The world of webs hosting can be confusing to most of us. 

Questions

What is your website for?

Personal just to play with?

Commercial to sell an item you produce?

Affliate program selling?

How experienced are you?

Are you going to use Frontpage or Dreamweaver or are you going to write your own HTML pages?

Are you hoping to build a website or group of websites to make money?

Advantages to Free Web hosting

  • Price
  • Great practice space and often a no preasure way to learn.
  • Awesome for Personal or Educational websites.
  • Great for commuicating to small group or family.
  • Great place to start a commercial website--to get your feet wet. 

Disadvantages to Free Web Hosting

  • Often your only naming option includes your Host's name.  Example is this webpage which is on Googlepages.com and has the address http://webhosting2055.googlepages.com/home
  • Many free webhosts will post their advertisements on your site.
  • Many free webhosts won't accept FTP access and do not support many programming languages.
  • Usually there is minimal support for Free Web Hosting 2055.  Your support will come from forums and or FAQs.
  • Size of files and size of the website is often severely limited by Free hosts.
  • Speed of most Free web hosts is way below average for the web.
  • Data Transfer limits will hamper your website growth if it starts to generate a lot of traffic.
  • You normally cannot use the website address as your email address.  I cannot use Web Hosting 2055 as my email address.

Advantages to Paid Hosting

  • Most have a full featured Control Panel.
  • FTP access for large uploads is always available.
  • 24/7 support is available often by phone or email or instant messenger.
  • Web Based email accounts with your website as the name.
  • Many Paid Web Hosting plans have an affiliate plan.

Disadvantage to Paid Hosting

  • Price

Your Website Theme

Passion, Knowledge or Desired knowledge should be the basis of your website.  If one of those align with high potential income then that could be the best idea.  Rick Kern