Ahhh, the word "free", used so often and abused even more. Why would anyone give away free hosting? In most cases, your site is required to display some banner ads and generate revenue for the host provider. That is fine and many customers, especially customers with personal Websites who can live with that sacrifice.
However in some cases, signing up for free hosting is like selling your soul to the devil (ok maybe not that bad) and here is why. Your personal information and your e-mail address is sold to many, sometimeshundreds of "opt in" spammers. You have essentially opted in to receive all their spam when you signed up for the free hosting and pretended you read the host provider's 26 page of terms and conditions.
At times, the service is so poor it actually costs businesses large amounts of money in loss revenues. The same can be said for very cheap hosting.
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