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Free Web Hosting
Free web hosting service is a web hosting that is totally free,
generally for advertisement supported and has a limited
functionality. Free website hosting also offers a sub domain (yourname.etc.com) of
50megs, or a directory (www.etc.com/~yourname). Some free hosts allow utilizing of independently purchased domains, a free
host can also function as a domain name registrar, but their
registry services are generally more costly than others. Some of the free web
hosts have different packages for free websites and they can improve packages with more features and advantages for a cost.
Features of Free Web Hosting
A web based control panel.
File Transfer via FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
Scripting Languages PHP, ASP, Perl etc.
Relational database such as My SQL.
Scheduled Processes, Known as cronjobs.
Free email account for the domain or sub domain hosted.
Other Features such as guest books etc.
Limitations of
Free Web Hosting
Free Hosting has the following Limitations.
Each hosted file has limited size.
Very small Bandwidth (Measure of frequency range) per month
compared
to paid hosting.
Do not allow certain file types like MP3, MPEG, and ZIP etc.
Don not provides any uptime guarantee.
Placement of the Web hosts banners or popup ads into all
web pages.
Procedures of
giving free web hosting by web hosts
Instant Activation
In Free domain hosting
the Web hosts give free web hosting by instant activation method, in
this method Hosts generally give very small storage space with many limitations. Web hosts generally want
the users web pages for display their banners ads, text links ads, and for popup.
Forum Application
A very famous method
in free file hosting by web hosts, in this method web hosts can
decide that which application to deny, and which application to allow for free web hosting.
File Hosting on Web hosts
In free file hosting
some hosts depress their clients which are utilizing their services
for file and image hosting only. Hot linking is usually not allowed
on free web hosting. Some times free web hosts also not allowed
files over a certain size for example, 5 MG.
Post for Hosting
Free hosting regularly
work on a system of points where post give point to a user and can
be use as credit toward getting a hosting account, mostly the users post for advertising and get the points or
stars. In simple word we can say post for hosting is that free web hosts required a certain amount of post before getting a free
hosting account.
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