The Pitfalls Of Free Web Hosting Service

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The Pitfalls of Free Web Hosting Service A free web hosting service is a simple platform intended for beginners and newcomers in the internet world. It is freely offered with limitations and goes with the saying, “take it or leave it”. A hosting service that is supported mostly by advertisement is offered for free. It comes with a free directory or subdomain but with limited features. This service is ideal for beginners and those whose intent of availing the service is to announce some event or post messages for short time duration. The existence of the site is even announced to a small peer group or family circles. It exists sparingly and may even be deleted unexpectedly or consigned to oblivion for eternity. The simplicity of a free web hosting service is due to the restrictions imposed regarding uploading of files or images. Hosting of these file types tends to create hot linking wasting a lot of bandwidth and potential revenue for the web host. Subdomains offered for free may come in the form of yoursite.example.com while a directory has the following format: www.example.com/~yourname. These are dependent type of domain names which attaches the name of the web host to the user’s desired name. In rare cases, a domain name registrar is available as a supplement to the free web hosting service. In all cases, however, domains which have been bought separately are disallowed as second-level domain hosting is usually a paid ads-free service. The web host generates revenue through paid advertisements disabling users’ earning chances through file uploads and image sharing. If remote or hot linking is allowed, the host may be providing bandwidth to the user for free while it struggles to pay for the maintenance, the hardware and the power involved. This explains why hosting of images, files and downloadable contents is discouraged. The web host
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