Question: With so many services available that hosted for free why would anyone choose a paid one?

Answer: There are an enormous amount of benefits both short and long-term. Here are just a few.

Benefits

1. Owning your own domain name ensures your company has it's own unique identity. (i.e. www.yourdomain.com instead of www.yourdomain.someothersite.com)
2. Your visitors will more readily respect your blog/business as they will have seen that you placed a measure of investment into your prized blog/business's appearance and perception.
3. Adding to your website comes without restrictions. many free hosted services do not allow you full flexibility in adding the latest tools when your business grows beyond it's current platform.
4. Your info is backed-up every night so that you don't have to worry about loosing valuable information.
5. Less restrictions on how you use your site for your company's needs.
6. Access to hourly reports on how your website is performing.
7. Pride in knowing it's YOURS.
8. Have a piece of mind in knowing that your information is safe.
9. Unlimited email accounts with your This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it address.
10. Worry-free website  blog hosting.