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"Make a free website" is one of the most popular search queries connected with web design. Are there any ways of free website development? Free templates of web design available for free download (and correspondingly not unique), free content management systems, different modules and add-ons will help to create a free website. But a site assembled out of such free "bricks" has to be placed somewhere; it is desirable that placement is also free. That is what the service of free hosting is for. Free hosting presupposes free site placement on the server of hosting provider.
Types of hosting
- virtual server: one server provides resources for a lot of sites, from 50 to 1000, and the runtime environment is common for all;
- virtual dedicated server is similar to a virtual server, but in this case there are several virtual machines on one server; each virtual machine is for a separate site;
- dedicated server is the server all resources of which are intended for work with only one site;
- colocation is sometimes considered as a separate service; it is placement of your own or leased equipment in the data center of a hosting provider.
It is evident that no hosting provider will offer you a dedicated server for free hosting. Free hosting is a virtual server where you are never secured from shortage of server hardware resources.
What does the service of free hosting include?
The main parameters that characterize this or that hosting are: availability or absence of various services and facilities; limits of disc space volume and traffic per month; quantity of available databases.
Thus a free hosting is usually described and compared according to such parameters:
- maintenance of CGI/Perl, PHP, .htaccess (for Apache), MySQL;
- disc space volume (usually it is about 50-100 MB);
- traffic volume per month;
- number of sites that can be placed within one user account;
- maintenance of FTP;
- availability of e-mails and space for them (often free hosting does not provide e-mails);
- number of databases and space for them (usually it is maximum one database);
- resources of the server provided for work with the account of one client (CPU and RAM resources, channel capacity).
Advantages of free hosting
There is no doubt that the main advantage of free hosting is its price! Thanks to the opportunity to try such variant of hosting without spending a dime free hosting is especially popular among the developers of small sites - home pages, informative resources with low attendance. Many users of free hosting services change it for a paid hosting with the development of their project because they realize the necessity to provide normal functioning of the site when the server load increases. Most of the hosting companies offer a free start on their platform for this very reason. This way in the future they will get a new client for whom change of hosting will be problematic.
Disadvantages of free hosting
When you use free hosting you cannot register your site on a second-level domain. The URL of your site will look this way: www.site_name.host_name.ua (.ru, .com, .inf etc). Such domain name may negatively influence the reputation of commercial sites. A commercial resource registered on a free hosting gives rise to doubts in competence and successfulness on the company which owns the site. Besides when you use free hosting the hoster is the actual owner of the domain name. Thus if you change the hoster you lose the domain name.
Hosters place their advertising on the sites of their clients as compensation for free usage of hosting. This advertising is not agreed with the site owner and may not correspond to the content and topic of the site.
Free hosting has considerable limits of size of files uploaded on the site, as well as the number of files and upload speed. Absence of data backups and technical support leads to the risk to lose some important data. You will be able neither to restore it nor to raise a claim to the hoster.
Thus free hosting is suitable for beginners and owners of small homepages. But paid hosting is more preferable for commercial sites. Paid hosting provides wider opportunities, good technical support service and facilitates development of positive image. If you are interested in it, you can order a site in WebStudio2U right now by filling a form on our website. We provide our projects with high-quality and secure hosting.
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