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A: Free web hosting is simply that, its web server space provided to you at no cost. This usually has some form of mandatory advertising attached. Since the hosting is free, the features offered are limited compared with those of paid hosting.

A: Select free web hosting if you're looking for a no-cost solution. You can use free hosting to host a personal web site or a non-profit organization web site, but not a serious business web site.

A: With free hosting, you pay no cost. It's a perfect solution for a personal web site. If you aren't going to make money from your web site, free hosting is the perfect solution.

1. Students can learn a lot by hosting a free website to understand the basics of how to design, develop and maintain websites on the internet. They can become familiar with website design and development tools, file management and file upload issues, website maintenance and site monitoring. For instance boinc.ch offer free shell accounts on their server, primarily for people interested in the UNIX environment, for students and for developers, and for people who want a personal homepage on the internet. Their goal is "to allow everybody to use a UNIX account on a real server. Or maybe you want to start using UNIX/Linux, but you simply don't have a computer to play with, or maybe you had problems installing the Operating System, and you simply want to familiarize with the common commands and environment to see if it is worth your time to install it locally?"

2. Free websites are also useful in sharing web content among groups having similar interests but not able to spend money for one reason or the other. By posting useful information and providing mutual links these sites may gain search engine visibility as well.

3. Voluntary organizations and non-profit organizations with low capital can use these services to set up a basic website to publish information about news and events or communicate with participants.

4. Good for family websites, sharing photographs and important family events of general importance. While I see a limited use here, I would be concerned about privacy issues and placing family information on a website that is freely accessible to every one especially the scam artists. If at all used, please ensure that the are made accessible to authorized users only, which means you have to put in place a proper authentication (login) model for your website.

A: Most providers will require you to place their ads on your web pages, so they can continue giving the space for free. Mostly, you will be getting support via the Web. It's almost impossible to get a phone support. Features that come with free hosting services are also limited.