Free Hosting vs Paid Business Hosting

Some people actively shopping for web hosting services may be wondering at what is free hosting. We have prepared a new 12 point guide that lets you get more informed about key differences between free web hosting and its counterpart paid business hosting.

This document mainly target cPanel hosting providers.

Google workspace already give secure, quality free hosting on a free Gmail address. The platform is not subject to this analysis. Google corporate cloud solution - the Google Workspace offer per account licensing alike Microsoft365.com Exchange server. Knowledgeable internal support team is equally important at offering end user - on the premise software and apps support. Support for PC, Laptop, Android or iPhone mobile and smart phones or even a macBook device.

Cloud based hosting solutions have grown in popularity receiving instant successes. Offering managed server resources on cloud eliminate unnecessary costs for running unmanaged server and cloud services while increasing service security with remote based online support.

Comparing Free vs Paid Hosting

Free web hosting facts

1. The main target is armature users and many times nets on spammers.
2. Not committed to any form of user data protection and security.
3. Mostly fail to abide by software licensing model or may subsidize such costs with a hidden scheme such as illegal use of customer data.
4. Mostly will not allow you to migrate away with your personal email or website data as currently held on their free servers. They aim at forcing you to retain their service as one of their client irrespective of dissatisfactory services offered.
5. Remember that you blindly skipped an understanding of the exit - transfer out clause. With no such an existing service agreement prior to joining a free hosting offer, you are in for any eventualities. They will give you an exorbitantly, punitive rate of transferring services out. They base calculations on the period you have used their poor services at a price exceeding that offered by paid hosting provider account holders for the same period of time. This makes it punitive and unrealistic to transfer out to another provider.
6. No guarantee on professional support available.
7. Service security not assured or not guaranteed.
8. Free customer taken through a complicated subscribe process that aim at collecting your data for data mining. Therefore, check validity of your supplier. The Know your Supplier (KYS) help you verify and understand the background and reliability of your supplier and plays a significant role in supplier due diligence.
9. May subject you to transfer your domain name out to them, a risk that could compromise your domain ownership and subject you to legal implications if your account is used for any illegal online activities or illegalities that will hold you liable. A risk that can be avoided.
10. Offers you with intermittent services due to poor support or is overwhelmed by host counterpart accounts with spamming clients in the co shared server environment as hackers and spammers like targeting use of such free servers.
No server guaranteed uptime and failing services due to unskilled or no support assistants.
11. No server uptime and failing services due to unskilled or no support. No comprehensive service assurance. Services that do not match the exaggerated promises and publications that aimed at winning new customers.
12. Good for startups, learners seeking for a- learning environment for short-term commitments.

Paid business web hosting facts

1. Used to serve knowledgeable users in a company, starter and established business accounts, web sites and emails as per security and pricing model.
2. Committed to user data privacy, protection and security.
3. Abides by software licensing model to offer informed pricing. This acts to sustain operational cost leading to profitability. This in turn guarantees host provider operational longevity without unnecessarily winding up their company operations for a sustained - better customer experience.
4. A genuine provider will provide you with all hosting tools at subscription. Will freely allow you to migrate away as per the industry standard. You can freely switch away to a new web hosting service provider. The back end server software and tools provisions for data backups and downloads necessary to allow for transfer out to your new provider without any undue inconveniences. This ensure that you are not limited to resources such as SSD Space, Bandwidth and backup resource requirements. This allow you to eventually match on with your new service requirements.
5. No extra cost is charged for migrations away. You will not be issued with any extra charges in a cost invoice for migrating away.
   N/B: However, you may need to make the right decision on transferring out as you may not be assured of the same quality of service with the new host as currently enjoyed at the moment with your current host. Before migrating away, inform the current supplier about the need for migrating away. If the offer the intended service, it is advisable to try it first with them before eventual migration. Therefore, discuss any emerging issues with your host provider technical and billing team within their departments if you feel that they abide by their stated terms and conditions.
6. Dedicated professional support is guaranteed. Level is based from company to company.
7. Service security is assured based on the competences of a company.
8. Paying customer taken through a simple web-hosting-package order process. to join any preferred package without subjecting your data to any risks.
9. Must never and does not subjected customers to forced personal domain transfer out to them. All that you need to achieve in order to get website and email pointed out to your new hosting server provider is to edit the Nameservers, part of your domain DNS records. This ensures that you retain full domain registrar ownership while getting services through a third party.
10. Handles professional clients and is not interested with engaging on cybercrime and the quality support offer all customers with a satisfactory service without undue downtimes.
11. Assures 99.99% server uptime, quality support, state of art SSD hosting, absolute free in migration if handled by your team or a free in migration on a fair use policy (FUP) while heavy data in transfers may be subject to charges if handled by web hosting support team, free out migration, free server upgrades or downgrades.
12. Good for established institutions offering reliable collaboration needs to handle your brand with long-term commitments.

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