In a market, there are different forms of offers. Some expensive, others free and all have their characteristics.
You must have already been lucky enough to come across a completely free hosting offer for your website.
Respect for personal data
Most free hosting offers offers that seem attractive at first but are not really so if you are looking to promote your business via a showcase site or an e-commerce site.
You no longer fully own your personal and commercial data and these hosts are happy to reuse this data, resell it and thus harm your customers , your prospects and especially yourself.
Pay attention to the conditions of use if you have subscribed to so-called “free” hosting, carefully read the categories relating to the protection of your data.
Quality of service
You may be hoping for a nice surprise by hosting your WordPress site for free, but we guarantee that will never be the case. The financing capacities of these hosts are limited and rely on additional income, which does not allow them to provide a quality service.
Forget about supporting, maintaining and updating your website.
Also, these are pre-existing platforms that do not offer any possibility of customization.
The security of your site can very quickly be called into question since numerous updates are necessary almost daily to keep your site secure.
So of course, you will have found free hosting for your site but you will not be able to do much with it.
The bandwidth is limited , the amount of data circulating is restricted and you sometimes do not even have the possibility of transferring your data if you want to change host.
These offers never include a professional email or custom domain name.
You will therefore necessarily have costs to pay for the additional services that you will necessarily need, whether in the short, medium or long term.
Unwanted advertisements
You’ve probably heard the adage: if it’s free, you’re the product.
And these free hosting offers are no exception to the rule.
Your website, in addition to having a limited traffic capacity, risks displaying unwanted advertisements which will ruin all the work done in the user experience and the tree structure of your site.
Advertisements over which you will have no control and no financial compensation.
In short, you will be able to host your WordPress site for free .
But is it really hosting if you don’t have any of the benefits of hosting your website, other than being able to access it via a URL?
Hosting your WordPress site for free ignoring its ownership , its performance, your personal data, its security, its maintenance and all the support services linked to the very notion of hosting.
It is obviously a choice that is up to you, but a choice that is very quickly made for anyone who wants a website worthy of the name.