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Look, good webmasters know not to use free web hosting for important websites. I'd personally never use free hosting for any website I plan to spend more than 20 minutes launching. In other words, I never use free hosting. Why? Because Google has said in the past that they can ban all the sites on a web host if the an unusual percentage of sites on that server or host are spammy. What good is a website it there's a chance you won't get any visitors to it? Google could use a domain level ban, or even an IP address level ban to remove these websites from their search engine results. This was again confirmed recently. A Google employee in Search Quality named Kaspar Szymanski made this tweet: "if freehosts appear 2b massively spammed #Google reserves the right 2take action on the entire site" So Google again confirms their right to take action on all the sites on a server or at a hosting company if they feel there is too much spam present. What is there to learn from this tweet and previous Google communications on the subject? Here's my take: - Don't use free web hosting. Period. Reputable, cheap shared web hosts are easy to find. Check out website hosting reviews.
- Consider hosting your important websites on a dedicated IP address. If you're not sharing an IP address with other websites you don't control, then your site won't be harmed if Google has to take some sort of action against a spammy IP address.
Learn From Google Employee Tweet| No Free Hosting, Dedicated IP Address
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