Free or paid- which is best for you?
There are two types of blog webhostingrating in terms of monetary investments: one is free and the other is paid blog web hosting. In paid web hosting, the clients have to pay the host a certain amount of fees, as he uses his domain, while in free web hosting, the clients don’t get changed with any costs at all, from the host’s side. However, there is always an ongoing debate between these two. Some say that paid web hosting is best while some plea for free web hosting. But if you are in this indecision, you have to count down both the advantages and the disadvantages of both of the web hostings, in order to come to a conclusion.
A popular free blog hosting is WordPress. A free blog hosting refers to the websites which lets you to create a blog for free. The one of the most notable drawbacks of this hosting is that the blogs will carry the name of the provider, for example, myhome @wordpress.com. Moreover, you can only perform only some limited activities with your free blog. Firstly you can not perform heavy branding as well as marketing for your business through it, because it may ruin your reputation, when your prospective customer will find out that you are using a free service. But if you have an own hosted domain, it can enable you to have powerful branding, freedom in designing and so on.
Now, coming to the benefits of the free blog supersized hosting, firstly, it is free and one does not have to worry about the space and bandwidth as these services are provided by the provider. But the only downside of this is that the providers supply limited bandwidth and space and you have very less tools to customize your blog. But at the same time, you can be completely relaxed about the blog maintenance. As mentioned earlier, having free blog may convey a bad image to your business. And it is not at all good for your business no matter whether you are selling some products or services. More than that, a free blog web hosting solely can enable you to have limited functionality as well as design for your blogs. And besides that, it is also lacking in the useful features like ‘cgi-bin’ and ‘htaccess’, which all the paid web hosting offer.
In spite of the fact that the free blog web hosting has many disadvantages, but it may turn suitable for certain type of usages and applications, especially, the subjective ones. If you are blogging in order to share your personal experiences, images, ideas etc, then it is always better and advisable too to use the free blogging service rather than the paid once. But if your sole concern is to earn money through your blogs, then you will be advised to use a blog with your own domain. In a nutshell, free web hosting is great only in two ways, one- they are free and two- they are ideal for personal blogging.
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