They offer the ability to send large amounts of traffic
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Written by Atila on August 13, 2008 – 6:45 am
Some Web hosting providers offer free hosting. Free Web hosting should be avoided if you are looking to build a large-scale Web site with e-commerce functionality, or if you expect to use a significant amount of bandwidth.
Free hosting has bandwidth limits that greatly restrict your ability to send large amounts of traffic through your Web site. Free hosting also tends to be advertisement-supported, which can be a real problem especially if you cannot control the advertisements.
However, if you are interested only in publishing a blog, you can use free versions of leading blog software such as WordPress, Blogger, or TypePad and even have them host the blog for free.
Companies like Rapidswitch, located at http://www.rapidswitch.com provides solutions for all types of online businesses: dedicated servers, co-location servers and more.
Their other services includes:
Private datacentre
Free KVMoIP
Freephone support
Free IP addresses
24/7 Staff Onsite
Free monitoring
For example, WordPress allows you to either create a blog and host it for free on WordPress.com, or for ultimate flexibility, set up the WordPress software on your own unique paid Web host. For search-engine optimization purposes, you should host your own Web site.
Many of the free services limit your ability to control the domain that your Web site points to, resulting in a poor-quality domain name. Moreover, major search engines are unlikely to attribute authority to Web sites hosted on free hosting services
