Paid vs. Free Web Hosting

Free Web Hosting

It is free.
You can use your free web space to practice programming. Only some free web hosting plans support programming languages such as ASP, PHP, CGI/Perl, JSP or Coldfusion.
A free web hosting plan is good for small personal website.

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Free web hosts advertise on your website.
Most free web hosts don't allow FTP access which is a problem if you have many files to upload.
They don’t offer data transfer or enough storage space for large number of files or big files.
You can be placed in a sub domain which may have a low search engine ranking.
They may not offer services like 24/7 support.
They do not offer a control panel with their plans.

Most paid web hosting plans support a couple programming languages such as ASP, PHP, CGI/Perl, JSP or Coldfusion.
Paid hosting offers more disk space and data transfer and so you can accommodate bigger and more files.
There will be no banners or advertisements placed by the hosts.
Most paid web hosts offer FTP access.
Most web hosting packages consist of a control panel such as cPanel, Vdeck, Plesk or Ensim which offer features like web stats, the ability to password protect directories, and the ability to create web based email accounts.
You will have your own domain name which will result in better search engine rankings.
Most paid web hosts offer 24/7 support.