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What are the downsides of free webhosting?

I’ve signed up to a free webhost, and they’re not putting ads on the website so I’m really not sure what the downsides are. There must be some.

Thanks.

Depends. Some free hosting don’t support PHP or MySQL. Others allow limited bandwidth, and/or maybe 1 database. Probably no Cron jobs (depending on Linux or windows) . If you had mentioned the hosting site I probably would looked it up and given you specifics. But it’s probably limitations like that.

EDIT:
Like the other guy said they do give you a sub-domain. But this does not mean you cannot park a domain name. If you are using cPanel go down to the domains section (may or may not be there) and see if you can access Add-on Domains or Parked Domains. You can get a sub-domain from here too: http://www.co.cc/ which still is a sub-domain but its smaller and looks a bit more professional then a longer annoying domain. You would need to find the nameservers of your host and edit that in your domain setup to point to them. Hope this helped a little more.

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3 Responses to “What are the downsides of free webhosting?”

  1. Depends. Some free hosting don’t support PHP or MySQL. Others allow limited bandwidth, and/or maybe 1 database. Probably no Cron jobs (depending on Linux or windows) . If you had mentioned the hosting site I probably would looked it up and given you specifics. But it’s probably limitations like that.

    EDIT:
    Like the other guy said they do give you a sub-domain. But this does not mean you cannot park a domain name. If you are using cPanel go down to the domains section (may or may not be there) and see if you can access Add-on Domains or Parked Domains. You can get a sub-domain from here too: http://www.co.cc/ which still is a sub-domain but its smaller and looks a bit more professional then a longer annoying domain. You would need to find the nameservers of your host and edit that in your domain setup to point to them. Hope this helped a little more.
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  2. Free services offer a sub-domain, not a real domain name. This means your site address will be something like http://yoursite.freewebs.com, not http://www.yoursite.com. This way your website doesn’t look professional. On the other hand, there are some limitations with free web hosting services. In a word, if you want to have a serious presence on the web, you must pay for it. I recommend get a reliable company to do that in return for a few dollars.

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  3. if you dont make money off your website you shouldnt worry about it you need to have a bigg website when it is critical to have sever that doesnot go down
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