Whats the difference between free and paid website hosts?
With free hosts such as Geocities and Angelfire anyone visiting your web page will encounter pop-up or banner ads. These ads can cause a slower site load time and may freeze up slower/older computers and browsers. Many search engines frown upon free hosted sites and will usually not rank them well. Many of the free hosts use editing programs to publish and create websites. These programs often have trouble being browser compatible, creating visual and navigational problems with the sites. Many free hosts offer little bandwidth, so when your limit has been reached, they will shut your site down for an extended period of time. As well, many free hosts are converting to minimal space, high cost web hosting. You never know when your site’s host will make these changes. It is difficult and inconvenient to move an already established site, not to mention, bad for business. For these reasons and more, I do not like free web hosts.
