Free web hosting service
As a free hosting providers are referred, ask the users free storage space on the Internet and gives users the ability to edit the source code of your pages or even entirely create and upload your own files. The user usually receives only one subdomain (for example benutzer.freehoster.de ) or a subdirectory ( for example www.freehoster.de / user ).
In order to finance the offer or to make profitable dazzle the most free hosting on users' pages advertising in the form of pop -ups or layers. In older hosters also banners are often inserted as a form of advertising or use frames.
Standard Features
Most free hosting offer FTP access to upload files to the web space can. In addition, allow some files to upload via HTTP, this feature usually means WebFTP.
Many vendors support one or more scripting languages such as PHP. In addition, there is often the possibility to create your own database with the free hosting. Supported here is mostly MySQL or PostgreSQL. Through the support of scripting languages like PHP, it is possible to create complex web pages that are based on dynamically generated pages, or to use a content management system such as Joomla. The traffic is unlimited with the most free hosters after the fair-use principle.
This means: As long as the traffic is not overly burdened by Mirror services or chats, there is no limit. Similarly, there are of course free hosting, where the traffic is normally limited. Often found in free hosters also a limitation of the file size, often called file -size limit. This limitation will usually prevent large files are available for download and as the traffic increases.
Financing
Private projects of people who rent a server at a large supplier or establish its own data center, are usually funded by advertising revenue or smaller sponsors. Often such projects be set again after some time, because they are not profitable. However, if the financing of the project well organized and the service popular, a free host may also establish as a Paid -Hoster. More user then mean more advertising and therefore more revenue. Also offer a number of commercial web hosts a greatly scaled- hosting variant even on commercial-free basis free of charge to. So they want to bring their customers to switch to a fee-based service with more features.
Performance & Availability
Normally freehoster are slower than so-called Paid - Hoster, who demand money for Server deployment. The reason is that in most cases more accounts on a server and the hardware in general is somewhat less efficient. Availability for free hosters Furthermore, is rare guaranteed, with the uptimes can vary greatly depending on the provider. Reasons for this are primarily economic, because the provider of the service makes money by advertising only display on the user pages or by sponsors and this will be repaid to the majority of maintenance and operating costs. However, it may well be exceptions where a free hosting service is faster or better availability than a paid service.
Security
One also should not be overlooked aspect is the safety of the individual deals that will depend to a large extent, how safe is the server system used in the background. This depends for example on whether the operator einspielt updates for the server software for its operating system and the other components used regularly.
Another problem is that scripting languages usually provide extensive instructions that can be used to change the server configuration, or to overload the server with complicated calculations. Therefore, most operators block many such instructions, lack of instructions, however, can cause problems and make a change to the application required.