Free web hosting services are extremely limited. If you get a free hosting service you will found ads on the top and the bottom of your web-site and depending on what your web-site is all about, it may not fit at all but for people starting out on the internet it may be the best option if you don't have a lot of traffic or just a small site.

Generally the type of web domain name that you receive when you get a free web hosting is a subdomain with the name that you choose or a name in a directory.

As stated before, if you are a novice and just want to learn, this is the type of hosting account that you would probably want to get but there are some drawbacks to free web hosting if you are looking for more options on the account.

First, many free web hosting accounts do not support database management or what you would call in simple terms, putting data structures on the free web host side of their server. Databases are usually used for online data retrieval routines. Many of these free web hosting sites do not support a common package called mySQL which allows you to program queries into your web sites.

They also don't support multiple e-mail accounts. Most free web hosting service only gives you one email account and it's usually a web based internet account. The host does not include modules for Flash Programming, PHP and Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHMTL).

Free web space provider also has low bandwidth on the internet because of so many people using the free service instead of the paid service. Basically, you also get a free web email account with free hosting services.

Bandwidth is also very important for sites as bandwidth determines how much traffic your site can handle.

Then there is hosting that you pay for that you have more control over when you load and host your web site. You get POP3 mail id and can create as many emails as you want to which depends on the type of account that you pay for.

Every company has special packages for each and every need. From personal to business servers, even servers for special kinds of operating systems (UNIX, Windows, Linux and Apple) the choices vary depending on what you want to do.

The chances are you will not get any server side script support in free hosting, only html pages will be supported. If you need to run php pages, or asp or .net pages you will have to pay the charges.

The prices depend on how much space you need on the server to load your applications so you have to take into consideration what you want to put on the server through your web-site.

In summary, free web hosting is for starter who want an easy hosting option without many hosting features.

If you want to use professional hosting with reliable service and quality support, good uptime, then you should always go for paid hosting provider.