Free web hosting vs paid web hosting

Free web hosting allows the user to upload his site content on the server space, which is provided by the web hosting company, free of cost.

Free web hosting is very beneficial for those users who are new to Internet and want to get familiar with web hosting and its functionality on web servers.

On the other hand in paid web hosting if you want to upload content on your web page you have to pay the fee to company.
And this amount varies according to the company terms and conditions. The paid web hosting is best for professionals.

If you want to have a lot of traffic on your website you must go for paid web hosting because free web hosting don’t allow too much traffic.
Free web hosting usually earns through ads, which are placed in form of banners on the top and side of web pages.

Advantages of free web hosting:

The major advantage of free web hosting is that it is much beneficial for those new people who want to display a limited content in small amount of web space.

Moreover free web hosting companies have a lot of easy tools, which help new users to upload their content by following few easy steps.
Newbies mostly prefer free web hosting.

Disadvantages of free web hosting:

Similarly free web hosting also has some disadvantages which are that a person is always forced to place advertisement banners on his web page and all the revenue generated goes to those company, which provide you the space and domain to have free web hosting.

But on the other hand in paid web hosting all the revenue generated comes to your own pockets. And most of the times in free web hosting the domain of the website starts with the company name followed by your chosen domain name. But in paid web hosting you are free to opt domain name of your own choice.