| A: The services that free web hosting providers offer vary greatly by
company. The one constant between companies is that the services are limited. Some
common services offered include:
- Shared web hosting
- Limited diskspace and bandwidth - diskspace is usually less than 25Mb, frequently less than 5 or 10 Mb
- Some email support - you may be able to receive messages, but often you will not be able to send them from your account
- Subdomain - Many free web hosting companies will offer you a subdomain of the form: <yourdomain>.hostingcompany.com. This is different from the more common <yourdomain>.com.
- Registration or transfer of your domain name - for an additional fee
You will not usually find these services provided by a free web hosting company:
- Dedicated hosting (All free web hosting is shared hosting)
- Database support
- Large diskspace or bandwidth
- Support for server-side technologies (.ASP, PHP, ColdFusion, etc.)
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