5 Common Limitations to Expect with Free Hosting

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5 Common Limitations to Expect with Free Hosting Plans
As I’ve said many times throughout this comparison review, free web hosting always comes at a definite cost—limitations.

Common Limitations to Your Plan (Explainer) and Stock Image of Handcuffs

While you can get by on a free web hosting plan for a egypt phone number database if you need to, you’ll face quite a number of restrictions with any truly free service. Here are the 5 most common ones:

1. Server Limitations
This is probably the biggest drawback of free web hosting. Your web host dictates how much of their server resources you’re allowed to use. For example, you can’t use certain scripts to make your website more user-friendly (because they add too much of a load to your host’s servers on your free plan). Other limitations often include:

Bandwidth
Storage
Email accounts
Number of visitors
Uptime is also another area free hosting plans also get compromised on. When resource usage spikes, paying customers are given a priority, thereby leaving you in the lurch. This means you can expect to see lower uptime and load speeds than what you’ll get from a paid hosting plan.

2. You Get a Subdomain (Not Your Own Domain Name)
When registering for free web hosting, you’ll need to be aware that your website will be a subdomain of the host. A subdomain means your website is on someone else’s (your host) real estate. And visitors will know because it’ll show in your domain name (which doesn’t make your website feel as trustworthy in the long run). It’ll look something like this: yourblogname.freewebhost.com.

3. No Customer Support
When it comes to customer support, it’s one of the features you’ll rarely find in a free web hosting plan (with the exception of Weebly). This is because customer support is an expense that the web hosting service can’t often afford to give for free. So if anything goes wrong, you’re on your own.

4. Poor SEO and Ranking Opportunities
Because your website will be on a subdomain of the company you’re getting free hosting from, ranking in search engines won’t be a realistic prospect. Search engines (like Google) give preference to websites that are built on their own domains, not those that live on subdomains of other (larger) sites.