A free web hosting service undoubtedly thrills most business owners, as it means they can have an online presence for their business for no cost at all. There is no doubt that a free web hosting package does look very persuasive and you would wonder ‘why go for a paid hosting package if you can have your website for free?'  That is only when you know about all the drawbacks of a free web hosting service that you can understand why it is not recommended in most cases.

With a free web hosting, you can save on your monthly hosting charges and have almost the same website design like the paid website. Even though we previously mentioned about the drawbacks, we cannot brand it as being useless. This is because a free web hosting can be beneficial for those users who only want to see how a website can work for their business. They can try to see the benefits they gain from a website and then plump for the paid hosting any time they want. It is the best web hosting plan to start off on the internet. However, it is not recommended to keep as a permanent plan.

The major con of a free web hosting service is that it does not offer a custom domain for your website. Your website domain will have the name of the company from which you get your free web hosting plan from. It will actually be a sub domain of that hosting company. this will create a bad impression about the business and anyone can see by the domain that the website is using free hosting, which is another bad aspect.

Your free website will not be without advertisements, hence it means you will have to tolerate the ads on your web pages. The worst thing about these ads is that you do not get to choose the advertisements that will be placed on your website. Instead, the hosting company will choose them. More often than not, the advertisements on your site are of totally different theme than your site. Other than the banner advertisements, the hosting company can also choose to add pop ups to your site which will create an extremely bad impression of your site and will fend off the visitors instead of attracting them.

With a free web hosting, you cannot submit your site on the search engines and you can not optimize it using meta tags. This way, you will have to compromise on a global audience that is out there presenting ample opportunity for you to be successful.

Since you cannot have a custom domain, you will not be able to have email accounts with your hosting plan. This way, you will have to use the free email hosting like hotmail or gmail, which creates a very bad impression. For an online business or a business promoting itself on the internet, it is vital to have an identity of its own instead of being identified with other websites and that identity cannot be received from a free web hosting plan. Hence, free hosting is not the best web hosting plan for business owners.

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