The web hosting company who provides you with free web hosting services often makes their money from the ads. They strategically place these ads in your website, either at the top or at the bottom of your website. In this way, if by any chance someone is visiting your website and clicking the ads, the web hosting company would make money from the click itself or from the purchased goods that been done by the visitors.

Free web hosting services usually have more limited features if you compare it with the other premium plans. The web hosting company probably will give you about 5MB – 100MB disk space to begin with. You could take advantage of this offer by building your website and sell some products or services, and eventually purchase the premium plan to access more features and benefits. Some of them are a bigger disk space and bandwidth, free website templates, able to manage your database, additional scripts, and so on.

The domain name that you’ll get for this free web hosting service is the subdomain. For example, if the web hosting company has a domain name called www.myhosting.com, yours will be yourname.myhosting.com. If you have some cash to start, you could invest it by building your own domain name, and linked it to your website that you host in this free web hosting.

There are so many advantages and disadvantages for this free web hosting service. The advantages are you could start building your website without spending any money, you’ll get your own subdomain name, and you could manage your own website. The disadvantages are, your website will be penetrated by the web hosting company ads, usually you’ll get no database and no multiple email accounts, and sometimes you can’t included the modules like PHP, DHTML, and Flash in your website.

Even though there are several advantages and disadvantages of this free web hosting services, you could use this service to build your own website, and work your way out to purchase a bigger plan.