Free Hosting vs Paid Hosting Services

[Alex]

Which hosting package will you prefer Free or Paid? Why?

[paul]

Difinitely I would prefer the Paid one. You can expect good support and service from a paid hosting and hence you shall be able to render good service to your client.

[Peter]

Paid hosting, with paid hosting you don't have any unwanted text or banner ads placed on your site, you can expect good support and uptime guarantee, and above all good service.

[Erik100]

Obviously I would prefer paid hosting. With paid hosting you can expect good support, and great uptime.

[Mary]

If someone wishes to host an absolutely personal web site where he would upload personal information or photographs for his friends and relatives to browse, he might opt for free hosting. But if one wishes to host a business web site, paid hosting is advisable. Free hosting service providers would invariably place banners on the web sites they host for free. Obviously, that's their source of revenue. Another risk in choosing a free hosting is that the service provider might chage its policies anytime and would start charging for the space. This would compel the clients to pay the charges or take the pain of change the hosting service provider resulting in a setback to the business.

Mary

[James]

I’d recommend free hosting for personal pages and non commercial websites and paid hosting for business websites. Paid hosting is more secure and stable then free hosting.

[AndrewC]

If your site is commercial and your source of income, then definitely go for paid hosting as you can expect better support and uptime, for one or two pages personal websites free hosting will be ok.

[Mark]

Free and paid hosting has there own advantages and disadvantages but I'd recommend paid hosting bcoz it is more secure and stable then free hosting and it also supports couple of programming languages, provide FTP access and control panel.

[Jan]

I'd say paid hosting, "You get what you pay for".

[paul]

Well explained here; you can also find hosting related different posts in this blog; Good work!
http://blog.webhosting.uk.com/2006/0...-free-hosting/

[Peter]

Free hosting is generally not recommended for business and commercial sites. If you have no issues with the unwanted text and banner ads on your site and good support and uptime is not a priority for you then free hosting is the way to go for you.

[adam]

Paid becuase they need to keep you up becuase you paid, so if they have downtime, you can complain about them and give them a negitive feedback. Plus it the server is usally faster.

[suzane]

Go for a Paid host. What you need for your site is good connectivity, 24/7 tech support and good service and guaranteed uptime which you can expect only from the paid host. In free hosting unwanted banner and text ads are placed on your site which may affect your site's credibility. Even if you manage to get a good one there is no assurance that they will serve you the best. There are many cheap and affordable host then why go for free host. Free host is good for personal site or for non commercial site. But if your business depends on hosting then go for paid.