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What if you could get free web hosting? Sounds great, right? Some companies offer you this, while stating that all they need in return is for you to post their ad in a small area of your web page. They don't tell you that unreliability might be one of the other trade-offs. Read on for more insight into what makes a good web hosting service and why you might be better off paying for one.

If you are looking for a hosting company for your business, avoid going with free web hosts. A free web host will likely place ads on your site, which causes you to lose valuable traffic. A staple of any good online business is the amount of visitors you get to your site. The last thing you want is your free web host to steal away all your traffic.

You want to ensure that you get web page hosting that has a good server. You don't want to have a lot of people coming to your site and start lagging because of all the traffic that you've been attracting to https://slashdot.org/~rachelrobinson1986 to worry about your website going offline.