1) You can choose your own name for the site. Free hosting providers usually provide third-level domain names within a domain. In this case, the name of your site will be illegible, hard to remember, or even be “folk”, such as www.firma.narod.ru. And only using the services of a paid hosting provider, you can create a positive impression of your company.
Agree that the name www.vasya.narod.ru will cause your potential partners much less trust.
2) The place on your site you will manage at your discretion, that is, if you want to place any ads and get paid for it. And the amount of free space for information will depend solely on your desire and capabilities.
3) You will receive a wide range of services:
Unlimited traffic (the ability to send and download the necessary information), the provision of mailboxes, free registration of domains second and third level, protection from spam (unnecessary information “garbage” in the network).
4) Upload information to the resource does not have to use various web forms, extremely inconvenient for users, as is often the case with free hosting. You will be able to take advantage of FTP login (a special protocol for transferring files) as well as support for PHP, SSI, Perl,GGI, databases, etc.
5) If the server fails, the site will be protected from loss: virtually all hosting providers provide a service of periodic data backup (archiving). This is especially important if the site contains guest books and forums and frequently updated price lists.
6) If you choose the right provider, you will get support 24 hours a day, seven days a week, reducing to a minimum the number of situations where your site will not be available to visitors without your knowledge.
7) You will remain the owner of the site address on the Internet, even if you change your ISP. You can constantly engage in promotion of the site on the Internet, improving the position of the site in search engines and thereby increasing its attendance by the target audience. You will not have to part with the promoted name of the website, indicated in the links in the network, on business cards, brochures and other information about your company, as it would be in the case of a free provider.
8) Search engines on the Internet prefer sites located on a paid hosting. Therefore, under equal conditions, the site, which is on paid hosting, will be on request in the search engines on higher positions, and on free hosting – in the last row, becoming invisible to potential visitors.
