Magics said:
Webhosting should be free or for some charge still stay as unanswered question. Some people think that webhosting is better to be freebies and others prefer hosting only money. I think that answer on that question depends under the circumstances. If somebody want to use webhosting for social communication and exchanging points of view on various themes than free hosting in any case will support peoples free expression, mutual understanding and progress. So, in such cases webhosting is most preferable to be granted for free. However, if somebody is in a business and wants to use webhosting for business purposes and its advertizing than definitely he should invest in his business web presence. But I think that on the business start up stage webhosting is better given by hosting provider on the low costs.
Sometimes when one is in the developing stage of a website, it is best to use the free services, especially if you are not using a lot of databases. This enables you to get your basic framework set and published on the web, and work out any problems with the page. Even after you get the page going, it is great to allow the page to stay on the free service until the number of hits or customers causes a need to move to a paid service. This is what many free services actually expect. They expect that you will eventually need their paid services. When it comes time to switch to a paid service, it is much easier to stay with the current hosting provider than downloading, uploading and configuring your site on another host. So, free hosting services act as a way of marketing paid hosting services. There are those who would never need to upgrade, and that is fine, too. I am sure that hosting services figure in the cost and turnover rate, and allow for a percentage that never switch to paid hosting.
strokerace said:
The only difference between free and paid hosting in most case is the support and some features. For an example, its hard to find free host that offers SSL and Curl
Many times free hosting is a lot slower than paid hosting, even slower that shared paid hosting. I hear that Gigarank is one of the best free hosting services.
I hope to determine if that is true.