Web hosting is a service that gives you an opportunity to access a website that is already connected to the internet. What it actually does is to provide you with your very own space on the World Wide Web. There are some large companies that host a great many websites for which they have their own datacenter that consists of a massive network of servers connected to the Internet. Owning a datacenter however can be expensive and therefore what most web hosts do is rent space from those who own a datacenter which they then sell to service providers, but under their own name.
With the online industry growing in leaps and bounds, many web hosting services have started offering free web hosting to clients. Their method of earning revenue is through online advertising which most free & cheap web hosting companies declare are profitable. Most new business owners find the idea of free web hosting very attractive although the more experienced ones are now rather skeptical about the idea of free web hosting or even cheap web hosting. Unlike top web hosting companies that are available round the clock to provide the necessary technical support to their clients, many complain that they do not get this service through free web hosting which is only understandable.
For an online businessman, his website not being hosted for days on end can have disastrous consequences with loss of revenue and clients moving away to other sites that are better maintained and available 24/7. After all, there are so many top web hosting services that supply their clients with reliable and excellent services to keep their websites hosted and running without any break while most entrepreneurs that use free web hosting services tend to grumble about the very frustrating experiences they have had with web hosts that offer their services free of charge.
Another reason for their frustration is the fact that businessmen that make use of free web hosting do not have any control over their websites. As one may understand the only reason someone will give something free is only if he has another way of earning revenue and in order to make free web hosting profitable, service providers stuff their clients website with as many advertisements as possible and sometimes even ads that have nothing to do with the subject of the particular site.
It must also be remembered that with free web hosting, it is not possible for a client to have an individual domain name for his site because the provider of the free web hosting service adds his own names to the websites he sponsor. This is not at all a good thing to happen because not having a specific name makes it very difficult for search engines to locate the website resulting in the lost of business with hardly any visitors coming to the website. This is mostly due to the fact that the names given by free web hosting services are either not available anymore or have been disabled at an earlier date. This is why today’s savvy businessman prefers to pay even a little more and get the best web hosting service for his site because he knows only too well, how unreliable free web hosting can be.
