Free vs Paid hosting

[shield]

Paid hosting is obviously better, well in my view it is anyway but Im just interested to see how many people have got each....

Cast your vote and post your opinions...

[mate_pl]

paid... 24/7 free telephone and e-mail support...

[shield]

Are they based in your country?

[james.uk]

its mine, all mine muhahahah! ok yea i pay. but everything else is free.. i think the court order is still against me though :(

^^ thats a joke btw ;)

[martian2k4]

Paid 4, Wish it was free :D

[CannonBallGuy]

Paid. But I can host a load of small sites, and random stuff like pics, etc for just $3.50/month. Which my brother pays anyway, in return for me doing his site...

[mate_pl]

Are they based in your country?

Aha...

[Nuvo]

I can't afford to fork out for paid hosting when I'm not going to use it for anything that's likely to make me anything in return.
If I developed a product I could sell, or something I knew would be popular enough to draw people to my site which I could have ads on, fair enough, but for a blog or something simple like that, I'm quite happy with free hosting so long as it's decent.
My current free hosting account isn't great, but I'm only using it for testing stuff.

[gilly]

PAID - I can't understand why you wouldn't want it, the benefits like support and control with good stats!!

Plus quite a few free hosts dont allow php pages on there sites for security reasons!

Gilly

[shield]

Most people probably do want it but either cant afford it or dont see the need.

[FixItMan]

We host our own sites.

[shield]

So you own your own host?

[tony]

i pay for mine however you can get good hosting for free
usually only something like 50mb and 1gb bandwidth or something but its possible to get i was hosted for free on websiteunited.com for about 12months until the guy started taking yearly payments and ripped everyone off then vanished but i never lost a penny :D

[ododd]

free cause i haven't got the cash to fork over.....but i search around for good ones, and my sites never get that much traffic or anything really.......