Free or Premium - What is the best choice for a given situation?

[test-user]

Free hosting is good for some website that gets very light traffic, like a small church website. On the other hand, something demanding more muscle would need a paid solution. However, luckily, shared hosting ranges from 50 cents to 10 dollars a month in some cases. What excuses could people have?

 

[amanwaa]

See, you have a small business or personal portfolio website then you choose any best and reputed free web hosting provider, but if you run a serious website then we recommend going with any free web hosting provider. due to some limited resource on the free server, you never get rank in search engines. one word always keep in mind "Nothing is Free in the Word"

 

[test-user]

Well, one thing I didn't bring up, regards the fact that not all shared hosting is the same. I mean, if I wanted shared hosting, then I'd probably go for a reseller plan - which is a form of shared hosting - though not advertised as such. It's because the resources are much larger.

Well, actually, I do such a thing in real life. I have a reseller plan for one website, mainly because the VPS offered doesn't have cPanel. Anyway, I don't use it to resell hosting - but only for the advanced hosting features.

O.K. who has ventured into reseller hosting before or just ventured in it - for the resources only?