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Free Web Hosting - What Would You Get?

Yes, there are a lot of new domains offering free web hosting solutions but before going for the free stuff rather than paying for your own - read this:

Businesses that use free web hosting are often vulnerable to the following factors, all of which are provided by a paid-for host:

- Unreliable servers with frequent down time.
- Low-priority bandwidth giving slow site performance
- Small bandwidth allowances causing payment to be required or worse still, the website being shut down.
- No secure server space for enabling online product orders.
- No backups for user files.
- No scripting support for features such as drop down menus, dynamic text, etc.
- No out of hours support
- Difficulty being identified by search engines.
- Adverts - the site owner often has no control over the volume or content of these adverts.
- Complicated and difficult to remember website addresses.
- And worst, your site may be shutdown for good.

For those who really can't afford that much, you can try searching cheap web hosting solutions mostly found in the Philippines. Try searching for "pinoy" "web" "hosting" in Google, my favorite is Ploghost.com.