Disadvantages Of Free Web Hosting

There is no such thing as a free lunch, so there must be some drawbacks to free web hosting, and there are. For one, you are normally required to show some form of advertising. The web host has to re-coup their costs, they would even like to make money and you cannot blame them for that. Banners, text links, pop-ups, pop-unders and combinations of them are common. Free web hosts also tend to limit the storage space they provide, they limit the type of files and the subject of the content, they usually have size limits on the files you can upload, they don't usually provide features like scripting, shopping carts, databases and more. Apart from that, some free hosts might provide sub-domains and while others might have sub-directories, so no custom domain names. Finally, hosting on a free web host does not give a very professional impression, especially if the website is an e-commerce or business site.