Free or Paid Hosting?.which to Choose???

While doing selection between a free or paid web hosting service there are several things to be keep in mind. Excluding cost, there are some other critical factors which play a key role.

Top most things which user should concern about are the intention of creating a web site. Is the intention is to share mere photos of the relatives and friends? Or else, the aim is to include several pages with dissimilar text on each making the task comparatively more composite? Or rather the site is meant for professional purposes?

User should know the objective of his/her concern web site in order to choose an ideal host. For instance, if the site is meant for personal snaps then it need not to counter an excess amount of traffic and limited amount of disk space and bandwidth is quite sufficient.

For the above mentioned objective free hosting can also be recommended. If the web master is inexperienced then also a free web hosting service can help him/her to brush-up html skills.

The user should be aware of the fact that he/she will enjoy less features and assistance in free service in comparison to paid service. But, the provided services are quite sufficient to hold up a web site on a small scale. However, user should remain ready bear the problems related to displaying of offbeat advertisements.

If one going to choose for paid hosting, he/she will find several options to choose from including various sorts of packages. Talking about features like disk space, bandwidth, free domain names, free sub-domains and unlimited email accounts are comparatively more and quite advanced in case of paid hosting. Other advanced features include a CGI-Bin, MySQL databases, Microsoft FrontPage extensions etc.

One can largely depend on the hosting services provided in paid hosting including customer support which is not to that extent in case of free web hosting.

If one talks on money basis then registration for a free web hosting service is free, even though user needs to buy his/her own domain name. When one talks about a basic paid service, then the expected range will be $5 to $10 for a month. By paying a small amount one can enjoy enhanced services, customer assistance and features.