Free Web Hosting – Too Good to be True?

Chances are you’ll have heard a hell of a lot over recent months about free web hosting services – something that just a few short years ago was entirely unheard of. The idea of allowing a person to build, launch and maintain a website 100% free of charge doesn’t seem to make a great deal of sense from the perspective of the firm offering the freebies – surely they’re the ones coming out of the deal worse off, right?Well, whichever way you look at the subject free web hosting is real, abundant and easy to get hold of. But just because you can get hold of free hosting, does this mean you should?    Like everything in life, free web hosting comes with its own unique pros and cons – all of which you really should be aware of before signing up. The very fact that it all seems a little too good to be true should be enough to set at least a couple of alarm bells ringing, prompting questions as to why some firms will make you pay for what others offer for free.Free Web Hosting – The ProsKicking off with the good stuff, it’s a bit of a no-brainer to state that the very best thing about free web hosting is the price…or indeed the lack thereof. It’s hard to knock any kind of freebie these days as very little comes free of charge – especially where tech services and the web are concerned.So there’s no outlay, no binding contract for several years to come and thus no real risk if the website falls flat on its face, it’s a much more reassuring prospect for amateurs.Speaking of amateurs, most free web hosting packages are incredibly simple to grasp and offer use of equally simple website builders. So all in all, it’s a pretty easy way to get started if you’re not already something of an expert.Look at it any way you like; there are some serious perks to free web hosting.Free Web Hosting – The ConsAs for the darker side of things, it’s safe to say that if you’re intent on running a website that’s anything more than fundamentally basic, free web hosting is rarely powerful enough. These kinds of packages are usually quite massively limited in terms of bandwidth, storage space and general features, which means that sooner or later it’s inevitable that you’ll need to upgrade…and pay.Next up, plenty of the world’s most popular free hosting companies don’t check up on or verify their subscribers, which in turn leaves the system wide open to fraud and misuse.And finally, it is simply impossible for a hosting company to offer state of the art and round the clock security to look after both your online assets and your personal data. Poorly protected websites make rich pickings for hackers and fraudsters, which in turn means that if you’re not willing to pay for at least a basic level of protection, you’re playing with fire.Equally balanced or a risk not worth taking?We’ll let you figure that one out!