Sooner or later, as everyone finds out, nothing in this world is free. Although there are literally hundreds of free hosts appearing on the Internet, no one can stay in business long by giving them away. So how can hosting services offer free hosting?

Easy.

One way is to make some of your money by registering your domain name. Domain registration is a necessary step for any future website owner (some low cost hosts play a numbers game between your monthly cost and your annual domain registration fee, for example:
$5/mo and $30 sign up fee, or $7/mo and just $6 to sign up, or… you get the idea).

Another way to earn money is to add advertising to your web page. They will get paid each time the banner is displayed or each time someone clicks on the ad.
Some will offer additional add-ons like spam or virus protection, domain theft protection, or other services at an additional cost. Of course, if you think you need these services, you have to buy them.

There are also limitations such as storage space, bandwidth, number of email accounts and
so on, hoping you’ll need more later and decide to upgrade.

So, are so-called Free Hosting Services worth considering?

They sure are! There are situations where someone may not need tons of storage, bandwidth, email, etc. just find a
host that offers what you need without too many compromises. One such server that I use quite frequently is doteasy.com. No banners, just an annual domain registration. And for me, they always have
responded to my questions within 24 hours via email.

So if you’re new to web page development, just want your own personal web page, etc., and don’t really have that intensive system requirements, then free hosting is the way to go.