What are the disadvantages of free webhosting?

1.Free website hosting comes with the very limited amount of storage, bandwidth and processing power. 2.You may wonder how a provider can afford to offer it for free.There could be many reasons like advertisement promotion on your free website or enlargement of their web presence.These advertisements could be very annoying for your website visitors and also can slow down your website. 3.Some of the webhosts provide subdomain URL like yourwebsitename.example.com or directory like www.example.com/~username). Such URL’s causes bad impression to your visitors.However, some webhosts allows you to host domainnames like yourdomain.com that you own.