Free vs. paid websites:
Which is right for you?

Advertising

Free:

Your pages may have advertisements -- even irritating, distracting flashing ads.

Your content may be limited. For instance, directNIC won't allow users of their almost-free hosting to link to an anchor (a particular place in the middle of a webpage) because that would let viewers bypass the ads.

Paid:

The only content on your pages will be what you put there. (That can include ads that are supplied by companies like Google, as well as ads from more-specialized companies like InfoHub, that pay you to put ads on your pages.)