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Business policy of free web hosting company is advertisement. They put advertise on you web pages such as banner ads, popup ads, pop under ads etc and make money by this policy. Some of them are not putting ads on your pages but they require you as a webmaster for clicking on the banners which stays is in their cpanel or registration procedure and also display it in the file manager and they hope that you will click on it. Other policy is to post certain number of forums where user of it can find some free content for them and for that reason they are able to show more ads to their visitors.

You can’t use free hosting site for business purpose because they don’t offer any ad-free hosting service. If you want to use a business related site or a corporate site, you must need an ad-free host which is especially discriminated. The very effective use of a free web hosting is to learn the basics of web hosting and learn about server. Also use it for your personal web site, your family pages, picture gallery or use it for a collection of bookmarks which is as an entrance to another web site of yours. In many free hosting sites, you get sufficient web space for hosting. It may be varied from 20MB to 1GB. You also get monthly bandwidth, email facility, sub domain, limited databases and more than ever with a preset instant activation offers such as PHP, CGI, Rubi, Pearl, SSI, FrontPage server etc. As a web developer this is sufficient you for implementation.

There are many free hosting sites in internet world and you can find more using search engine. The best way is to find in a free web directory which is focused for the listing of free web space or hosting providers. Some of the best web hosting sites and its features are given below- 0frees.net they will give you about 300MB and it is ad-free. They also give you a control panel, 2 MySQL databases, email etc. Freeftp.eu provides you 1GB web space and service providers put banner and footer ad on your pages. 50webs offers you 60MB web space, unlimited bandwidth and POP3 email support. They don’t provide any ads in your hosted pages. You can setup multiple sub domains under the same account. Tripod is the best. Nobody can accept ad in their sites and other limitations. But this provider is one of the best reliable and oldest free web hosts. They offer you only 60MB, one sub domain, editor, web pages statistics and file manager. Bandwidth of this site is monthly 1GB. You can store here several kinds of file such as video, audio, mp3, java, flash, pearl, CGI, SSI and ForntPagesServer extensions script. In all free hosting sites’ server, you can transfer file by using any FTP software.

Free web hosting – it sure does sound suspicious; someone spending all the money to host your website? A lot of them are asking for fees but this web hosting service does not? Like expected; seldom does anything ever come for free. So now we will discuss what are the problems that come along with free web hosting services.

To start with free web hosting services subject your website to a lot of restrictions. These restrictions can vary from – restriction of multimedia to unavailability of special programming scripts. The most general of restrictions is the restriction put on web space and band width. These restrictions make your web site look rather bland and less professional. On the other hand reduction in bandwidth can mean a highly inefficient website or a totally frustrating navigational experience.

In that case what is the very purpose of these free web hosting services or to better put it why do they spend money to host some random person’s website for free? The answer lies in the fact that free web hosting companies require you to have ads on your website. These advertisements can be in the form of normal internet ads, pop ups, banners etc. Most of the time you hardly have any choice with regard to what kind of ads are posted, where it’s posted etc. The setting up of these ads enable the free web hosting company to earn a small advertising income through your website.

Other methods that are used by free web hosting services include – the selling of your email address to advertisement agencies, subscription to their ads, posting on certain forums etc.

What is important here is that free web hosting services are out there with the intent to make money. Thus it is no surprise that when you wake up next morning – your website as well as the free web hosting company have both disappeared for good. Most importantly you can’t complain because it’s free.

However there are free web hosting services that offer certain advanced features like – email addresses, ftp, advanced programming scripts etc. Usually free web hosting companies work by making tradeoffs between these features – so that suitable people register with their free web hosting services.

Then again a more common feature for free web hosting services is to offer upgrades for paid membership. This is good if the service is good. However read the Terms of agreement as there may be clauses that require you to make separate additional payments for each additional feature etc. Other free web hosting services would offer to remove their ads for a certain fee – the essence being; it’s no longer free now.

A way would for them to make money through the registration of your domain name. The registration of your domain name would be necessary for all future website owners.

Another way would be for them to add advertising to the web pages on your website. They would get paid either every time the banned would be shown or every time there would be someone who would click on the advertisements. There are some who offer additional features such as a spam or a virus protection and domain theft protection for an extra cost.

There are also several limitations like the storage space, the bandwidth, the number of email accounts and others, as they hope that you would eventually need more later and request for an upgrade.

So ultimately, are the services of these free web host providers worth to consider? Yes, they are. Since there are situations when you might not be needing a lot of bandwidth, storage, email and so on. You could just look for a host, which would offer what you require without a lot of compromises. So if you are relatively new in web page development are just looking to have a personal web page and you do not have that much requirements, then free webhosting is definitely the best way to go.