A web hosting can be both free and paid. But why you should buy solution if you can get one for free online? The answer is quite simple.
A free hosting solution usually provides with very limited resources: this can be useful as a training for your skills but not enough fulfilling for a professional website. The free hosting solutions are not reliable in terms of security and resources. A free hosting does not provide you with the opportunity to use several plugins online and does not offer any guarantee in terms of backup in case of hacking attacks.
Usually, a free hosting solutions provides you with limited web space, limited bandwidth, an obligation in terms of displaying banners on the website, at least one mailbox and occasionally the support for the most popular technologies online, such as Apache servers, PHP and MySQL database. Sometimes a free hosting allows to use Wordpress or to host only static websites using HTML and CSS style files. These solutions are provided by Internet Service Provider (ISP), such as Tiscali and Libero, or hoster such as Altervista.
A paid hosting solution will provide you with different plans both for static and dynamic websites and a wider range of resources, possibilities and security.
In case of a static website (only HTML+CSS) a basic paid hosting offers:
- domain registration
- domain transfer
- one mailbox;
- antispam and antivirus;
- limited web space;
- several tools to manage your website's pages (such as file manager, graphic templates, FTP, etc);
In case of a dynamic website a basic paid hosting provides in addition:
- database support (usually MySQL or PostgreSQL)
- statistics and traffic analysis (such as Webalizer or Piwik)
- scripting languages support
- custom additional services
Keliweb provides you with extremely high-performing hosting solutions to manage your website at its best and to lead your professional business on the way to success. There are several plans depending on the use of the website, languages and products you want to promote.
