| Advantages to Free Web hosting | | | | - Usually there is minimal support for Free Web |
| - Price | | | | hosting. Your support will come from forums and |
| - Great practice space and often a no pressure | | | | or FAQs. |
| way to learn. | | | | - Size of files and size of the website is often |
| - Awesome for Personal or Educational websites. | | | | severely limited by Free hosts. |
| - Great for communicating to small group or | | | | - Speed of most Free web hosts is way below |
| family. | | | | average for the web. |
| - Great place to start a commercial website--to | | | | - Data Transfer limits will hamper your website |
| get your feet wet. If it succeeds you can move | | | | growth if it starts to generate a lot of traffic. |
| it to a paid site with more space and higher | | | | - You normally cannot use the website address as |
| bandwidth limits. Disadvantages to Free Web | | | | your email address. Advantages to Paid Hosting |
| Hosting | | | | - Most have a full featured Control Panel. |
| - Often your only naming option includes your | | | | - FTP access for large uploads is always available. |
| Host's name. Example is one of my webpages | | | | - 24/7 support is available often by phone or |
| which is on The link is in my signature box. | | | | email or instant messenger. |
| - Many free web hosts will post their | | | | - Web Based email accounts with your website as |
| advertisements or banners on your site. | | | | the name. |
| - Many free web hosts won't accept FTP access | | | | - Many Paid Web Hosting plans have an affiliate |
| and do not support many programming languages. | | | | plan. |