Hello. I wanted to ask a question, what distinguishes a paid hosting from a free one. Why do you need to pay extra money if the site and there is good?)) Which option to choose for a site with a attendance of 1000 people? And why might need a dedicated server.

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    Free hosting is most often used for training, code testing, for temporary placement of part of the project. The list of sites of companies providing free hosting services:

    • 000webhost.com
    • 500mb.ru
    • ucoz.ru
    • narod.ru
    • webservis.ru
    • ho.ua
    • hut.ru
    • wallst.ru
    • litehosting.ru
    • awardspace.com
    • eomy.net
    • holm.ru
    • ayola.net
    • freehostia.com
    • hostland.su

    Possible disadvantages of free hosting:

    • The presence of advertising.
    • Server imbalance.
    • More stringent restrictions on server resources (processor time, available RAM, read-only memory, number of queries to the database, etc.).
    • Critical limit on the number of FTP, SMTP, DataBase (MySQL / MSSQL / postgreSQL) accounts, or even their absence.
    • No support for server-side PL (PHP, ASP.NET, Java, Python, etc.) or their components / add-ons (including CMS like Joompla, Wordpress, Drupal, DLE, not to mention less popular)
    • Limited download size.
    • Some file extensions are not allowed.
    • Those. support is most often missing or does not work at full strength.
    • Often the lack of a normal control panel, job schedulers and other goodies.
    • The inability to bind an external domain.
    • Not solidity.
    • Most often, you can say goodbye to your site, if it does not please the hoster. Nobody owes you anything. You will not be asked to disconnect the site or not. At best, they will give a warning or offer to order paid services.

    Paid virtual hosting usually does not have the above disadvantages. It is quite economical and is ideal for small and medium-sized projects. Choose a hosting company here . If your site: is very resource intensive / has a large attendance / requires additional administration or fine-tuning of the server, then you can use a virtual dedicated server or
    dedicated server or even cloud hosting. The latter is much more expensive than virtual hosting.

    You yourself must decide whether to transfer the site to a paid hosting. I just pointed out the possible disadvantages of working with free hosting. If you found a free hosting service without the above shortcomings, then please let us know in the comments to the answer, I will be glad to use it from time to time.

      Of course, paid hosting is better, but proven, for example Agave. On a paid hosting service, 24-hour-a-day technical support is always ready to help you, usually they have free communication with them. Not all free hosting has a domain connection. Plus, free hosting requests are required to find your copyright on the site.

        service, the lack of advertising and probably the most pleasant - domain. In general, I have not seen free hosts only =)

        • and the IP address of all different or all hang on one?)) - alex_90
        • all of them are free from one, domain access, but for a fee you can take the allocated one - Gorets