There are plenty of places that will offer you free web hosting. A lot of people think that’s a great deal. Why should they pay for hosting when they can get it for free? While that’s a logical question, free hosting generally isn’t as good as paid hosting. You have to share bandwidth with a lot of people, and that can make your site quite unreliable. If all you’re doing is creating a family site where people can see what you’re up to, that’s not a big deal. For a business, though, it’s very important to have reliability in your web presence. If someone goes to your site and can’t get on it because you’re out of bandwidth or there’s some other problem, it’s quite likely that they won’t keep coming back. They may try again later, but they might just as easily go to another site and buy from your competitor.
To avoid that kind of problem, don’t go with free web hosting if you use a lot of bandwidth, have a large and complex web site, and/or run a business where reliability of your site is very important to you. You might have a lot of luck with it, but you also might find that you have a lot of problems and it can be difficult to switch hosting sometimes. It’s always best to get a good host right from the start, so you aren’t worried about how to switch your site over later. You’ll avoid a lot of stress that way, too, and you can focus on building your business and making things easier for your company and your customers. That way everyone will be as happy as possible, and you’ll be able to get on with running your company and making a profit.