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Many people around the globe are willing to create a website and eager to host it. Some people go for free hosting services like Geocities offered by Yahoo. Some buy a hosting package and host it. Most of us first try to host a website in a free hosting service and after monitoring the success of the website, we shift for a paid hosting service. In this post I would like to explain you about the free web hosting services.

The most important thing you must remember is that there are no charity oriented services in the internet. There are many free services. But these free service providers don’t offer a free service if they don’t receive an income from the service by some other way. Therefore you must not think that even though they are free, they don’t have commercial purposes. For an example, when you host a website in Geocities, you will see advertisements in your web pages added by Yahoo. Some free web hosting services don’t put advertisements in your web page. But they show an advertisement page, before your web site appears.

Another thing is that you won’t get a desired URL for your web address. For an example if you host with Geocities, you will get a URL like www.geocities.com/<your website name>. And you won’t get a domain name you like. There are space restrictions also. If you are hosting a commercial or professional website, I don’t recommend a free web hosting service. If you are hosting a website for an experimental purpose or just for fun, it is ok to host in free web hosting service.