If you are looking for a server to run your website than you will definitely need a Web Hosting provider for this purpose. Web Hosting providers provide servers to the clients so that they can run website or websites on the internet. So the Web Hosting providers play a very important role in providing the server. Also, make sure that you will find Web hosting providers of two types. Some of the Web Hosting providers charge money for hosting sites (Paid Web Hosting) and some of them do this for free (Free Web Hosting).

Free Web Hosting:-

You can host your site for free on a server and your website will be seen on the internet. You will definately feel that this is a better option than to pay for the website hosting. But, free web hosting is not a very good option when it comes to hosting a professional website. The reason for this is you will be given only limited resources for your website. These resources are so less that you can only host a personal or a small website which has merely any visitors on it. The disk space and the bandwidth which is offered with free web hosting are very less and only a small personal website can be hosted with these resources. Also, you can never expect any kind of support given to you if you are hosting a website with a free web hosting provider. Free web hosting providers will not give you any kind of support if you face any problem, either with your website or the server on which your website is hosted. Also, make sure, it might be possible that the free web hosting provider will ask you to place a banner on your website for all or any of his businesses. Free web hosting can only benefit you if you are new, when it comes to creating web pages and also you do not have any knowledge about it. You do not have to pay any charge for hosting your site if you have a free web hosting provider hosting your site. But, you will have to pay for the Domain name you have to register for your website.

Paid Web Hosting:-

Paid website hosting will provide you with the benefits that you will never get with free website hosting. The very first benefit is the options for the plans offered by the paid web hosting providers. You will find the desired server package with the configurations you require if you are willing to pay some charge for hosting your website. You might get the server package you need at an affordable cost. Also, the packages which are available with the paid web hosting provider allow more resources. These resources include the disk space and bandwidth which will be required if you want to host a website. As you will get more disk space and bandwidth with paid hosting it will be possible for you to add more files to your website and the website will handle more traffic. You will also get features such as free sub-domains and unlimited email accounts including some of the advanced features such as MySQL databases, Microsoft FrontPage extensions and CGI-Bin with the server packages. You will also get high level of customer support available 24×7 in cases of problems with the website or the server on which your site is hosted. If you go with paid web hosting then you will not be asked to place any kind of banner ads on your website which might be required if you select free hosting for your website. The above features and reliability which is guaranteed with paid website hosting makes it better than free website hosting.