Free hosting is a service that allows you to host your website on the Internet for an indefinitely long period of time without paying for it. Free hosting has its pros and cons.
What is free hosting
Hosting is a service for placing a website on the Internet. Free hosting companies provide this service at no cost. The site is located on such a hosting completely free of charge and for an unlimited period of time. As a rule, this refers to a virtual type of hosting - when many sites hosted on the server are located on one IP address.
To use this service, you need to register on the service and get access data to the site - FTP, MySQL, etc. Free hosting does not always provide the full range of services - for example, some companies allow "hosting" only static sites in the form of HTML pages. Others give their clients access to PHP, databases, server logs, etc.
Pros and cons
Free hosting usually comes with a number of inconveniences. On the one hand, you do not need to pay for it, but on the other hand, you will most likely be limited in the amount of information stored on the site and will display your own ads on the pages of your site, which may not please your visitors. In addition, in most cases your site will not be able to have its own second-level domain name, but will be located on one of the domains assigned to the hosting. For example, a site will have an address like site name.narod.ru, site name.hut.ru, etc.
Accordingly, when you promote your site on the Internet, hosted on free hosting, you will have to promote not your own domain name, but a third-level domain belonging to the hosting. If for some reason you change hosting or want to create your own second-level domain name, you will lose all your old links and the content of the site will need to be re-indexed in search engines again.
Usually free hosting works well for small websites or personal pages that you are not going to spend a lot of time on. Such hosting allows you to check how interesting your site is to visitors, how its functionality works, etc. Later, with the growth of the site's audience and the acquisition of skills in web-building, you will still have a desire to switch to paid hosting (especially considering that paid hosting services are now suitable for almost any wallet - their cost starts from a couple of hundred rubles per month) …
