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Free Host
A free host is a hosting service that allows a costumer to place his web-site on the hosting provider server for free. Almost always the service quality of such hosts is lower comparing with paid hosting. That's why it's better to use such type of hosting for customers' homepages. A traditional advantage of free hosts is the lack of the necessity to spend money for any service. The disadvantage is the need to pick out some area on the site to provider advertisement (a banner or a text link) or a domain of third level. Besides this, free hosting providers often propose paid hosting without any limitations with a second level domain. Usually such services are proposed to customers that with time are not satisfied with all providers' restrictions. Free hosting may have the following limitations:
- Limitation on the size of each hosted file
- Very small bandwidth per month compared to paid hosting
- Prevent hotlinking of files
- Do not allow certain file types (for example MP3, MPEG, ZIP etc.)
- Compulsory placement of the Webhosts' Banner or Popup ads into all web pages
- Do not provide any uptime guarantee
Some free host may provide these extra features:
- A web based control panel
- File transfer via FTP
- Scripting languages: PHP, ASP, Perl etc.
- Relational databases such as MySQL
- Scheduled processes, known as cronjobs
- Free email accounts for the domain or subdomain hosted
- Other features such as guestbooks.