Anyone who wants to can build a website on their own today. There are hosting services for this, both paid and free. They differ in quality, and that applies to both. But let's focus on the free ones.
What free website options are there
Free websites can be created on popular hosting services such as hostinger.com, 000webhost.com, wordpress.com and many others, whose number keeps growing.
What website builders exist
For those who don't want to build a site from scratch or want to save a few hours at first, website builders were created. They include Wix, Weblium, Webflow, Squarespace, Ucraft and WordPress.com.
Why people create websites
There can be countless reasons to create a website. Someone wants to write down interesting notes and share them with friends. Others simply want to collect jokes, poems or toasts.
Many users launch sites on free hosting as a test, to see whether the topic interests an audience. If it succeeds, the site has to move to paid hosting, because performance becomes the priority, and free platforms can't always deliver it.
Launching a site on free hosting is also useful for those just deciding to run a website. It lets them learn the basics.
The pros
The advantage of building your own site on free hosting is that the information you need will be ready within a few hours, and you can show it, for example, to a potential client. And you don't have to pay, which isn't possible with good paid hosting.
The cons of a site on a free platform
If you use free platforms for a personal website, there's a chance they will quite often be infected with viruses.
The storage space such platforms give users for content may also be significantly limited.
In practice, some free hosting providers quite often stop serving clients for free after a certain period (2–3 months) and ask them to pay whatever amount they consider appropriate.
Such sites may also be cluttered with ads on topics completely unrelated to what the owner wants to work in.
There's also a chance that one "fine" day all the information stored on free hosting will end up in the hands of its administrators. By agreeing to use such sites, the user is left in limbo from the start.
When one of these companies suddenly decides it's time to shut down one or several clients, in less than two seconds all the content collected over months or years will be irretrievably lost. It won't happen to everyone, but the risk is still there.
Another drawback is that you can't edit the page code. This matters especially when the owner has gained several thousand daily visitors and wants to place the ads they consider most suitable. Without editing the code, you also can't add a visitor counter to your pages.
Free builders don't offer every feature: some are locked by default and only unlock once the site owner pays the company that owns the hosting.
Social networks and reputable websites treat free sites with caution, warning users who want to visit one that they might run into a virus. Those who know what to expect may follow the link. Less informed users will most likely get scared and won't visit such a "suspicious" resource.
You won't be able to give such a site a short, memorable name: it will be fairly long, contain unwanted characters and therefore look unattractive.
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