A long running question among the Newbies, whether Free or Paid version of hosting, which is the better option. The professionals already aware of the facts and they know why Paid version is ideal for their small and large companies. However, the arguments keep goes on, but we are going to help you clear your doubts on why you should switch to the paid hosting than free hosting.
Free Web Hosting vs. Paid Hosting – Why Paid is better?
Before we start, I would like to inform you guys that you should always go with the Reputed paid hosting providers like Hostgator, Namecheap, Digital ocean, and Bluehost because there are 1000’s of unknown paid hosting providers, who start their hosting business at reasonable expenses and sell them at a high price.
#1 Security
According to my research, over 89% of the free web hosting provider’s security is equal to none. Currently, hackers are finding their ways to get into your Website and make changes as per their requirements. We know that there isn’t much personal information in your site to get hacked, but you will waste your time and efforts. How?
- Hackers erase everything from your Hosting space. So you have to build a site from scratch, which is annoying.
- They make significant changes in the settings, which will not be easy to restore due to lack of customer support.
- Hackers may add offensive content to your site, which is bad for your business or clients.
#2 Reliability
The phrase “Free Hosting” attract us because it’s free, but it does cost the founder of the service. To minimize the expenses they usually approach a company, who offer shared hosting option. Not only that, the load on the servers are extremely high because the number of sites runs on a server is significantly higher than it is allowed to handle. Your website will keep on crashing about 60 Â times a day, which extremely dangerous for your business or readers.
When your Customers, Clients, and Readers click on your website, it should be active, or you’ll use a loyal person.
#3 Customer Support
When you are running a Blog or Website designing small business, then you must use a paid hosting because you need the assistance of the client’s support for setting up or resolving a problem. In free hosting companies, you won’t even get proper email support. Which means you have to wait for more than 24 hours to get one simple reply from the free hosting management.
#4 Free Isn’t Always Free
Like the title suggest, free isn’t always free, how? The free hosting has to monetize somehow to compensate their services, so they prefer to take a drastic measure such as Running Ads on your site, which is the sneaky way to generate few bucks. These Ads are customized, and you don’t know what kind of Ads may appear on your site. Â On the top of that, the revenue is not shared with you.
Conclusion
If you are serious about your Clients, Customers, and Readers, then paid to host is a must. In case, your website is just to make it look right on your cards, and then free hosting is ideal. Let us know what do you think about it in the comment section.
