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Free hosting is for those who can really take a lot of risk and not for those who wanted a secured website that can last for a long time.
Then again, it can be a good stepping stone to invest on a fully operational site later on.
From my awareness, the latest Google updates tend to focus more on sites with more contents on their pages. I think this is very valuable if your page can have the right amount of keywords within a specific phrase (but not too much that it looks obvious that you want to increase your page ranking).