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What Makes a Good Cheap Web Hosting Plan

Cheap hosting plans come in all shapes and sizes, packed with different features that are sometimes even better than those of expensive web hosting. It is hard to tell which host is good just from the technical features because in reality, most of your experiences will be determined by other factors. What makes a good cheap web hosting plan is the ability of the host to maintain their quality of service even when the customer numbers are seemingly overwhelming.

A good cheap web hosting plan is one with great technical support. This is something that is hardly emphasized in bad hosts as it is where they usually lose profits, but they fail to think in the long term and rarely do their clients stay long enough due to the bad experiences they get while patronizing their services. When you have a problem, you want to have someone there that will help you solve it quickly and efficiently. The good companies who choose to offer cheap web hosting will know that with the number of customers they get, they need to hire more support people as a simple action of responsibility to ensure that their customers have a good experience.

Another factor that comes into play is the number of people the web hosting company places in each server. Call the web host using the hotline they provide or send them an e-mail enquiring how saturated each server is. At the same time, you can use their speed of response and quality of the answer as a gauge for the competence of their technical support. If the numbers are within the hundreds, it is acceptable and you should take it up. Too many people on each server will only mean slower loading times for your website and a higher chance of someone jeopardizing the whole server with their unscrupulous activities.

A good cheap web hosting plan usually does not have the seemingly ‘best’ features because they know where they should invest the money in for a better experience. Most web hosts put many features but miss out on the other factors that create a good service. These features are usually redundant for the most part, since your website will probably use only a tiny fraction of what they provide. Trust me when I say that you would much rather sacrifice hardware benefts pay for the non-technical aspects such as technical support.

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The Woes of Cheap Web Hosting

It is 10:15am and you are uploading your new product, ready for the most explosive launch you will ever have due in an hours time. Suddenly, the server stops responding and your file upload is interrupted. In a state of panic, you try to call the web host using the hotline they provided when you first bought the cheap $10 a month hosting plan. No one picks up.

The next best option was the 24-hour online chat helpdesk, but you navigated through the slow-loading website for 10 gruelling minutes - only to find that the chat room has no one to respond to you.

You only have one hour, and the ticket system they have usually takes 24 hours for a response, but you try anyways, in desperation to solve the problem before your whole business is jeopardized.

The clock ticks - it is 10:50am. If no one responds within a minute, there won’t even be enough time to even upload the files.

Do you want to be in this situation?

Getting cheap web hosting for your business can be bad, and in some cases, catastrophic. This however, does not have to happen. Cheap web hosting can be good if you know how to look for it, and it can even be better than more expensive hosts.

When looking for cheap web hosting, think realistically. Web hosts that offer unlimited disk pace, unlimited bandwidth and extremely low prices that seem impossible ARE impossible. Web hosts such as these will only end up having problems later when one or two clients abuse these features, causing the whole server to break down for everyone and causing you problems.

Cheap web hosting services that are easy to find are usually problematic too, since everybody usually finds these and the servers end up being extremely congested. In this case, everyone shares the same data line and it gets clogged up, resulting in slow loading speeds for all your websites.

Support is also a common problem with cheap web hosting. When you already pay so little, it is hard for the company to want to put in money to hire a good and technically brilliant support person, and you will be helpless when you really need assistance with any problems that arise.

Cheap web hosting has many downsides, but that is only if you do not know what the good web hosts are. It is possible to find cheap web hosting that is good.

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Cheap Web Hosting - How Cheap is Cheap

Insanely low prices are what you see nowadays when it comes to the world of hosting and just when you thought you’ve found something really low, another cheaper hosting plan appears. It is hard to gauge what is considered cheap hosting, especially when you consider the quality, which should be compromised if they offer such low prices, right?

So, how cheap is cheap when you take quality into account?

Cheap is subjective. Some would say cheap is when you pay less than the value you are getting - such as the most amazing technical support guy that you think deserve more of your money. Others would say cheap is simply lower prices, meaning the lower the better, and usually these people would accept the disadvantages that come with it. When looking for a web host, it is better to go for the former, but the latter comes into play in certain situations.

If you plan to make a profitable website for a business, or simply for yourself to gain a little extra spending power, you should look for a host that can provide great service at qualities that are able to sustain your website and ensure that is online most of the time to maximise your profits. In this case, you would not want to consider getting a host based on price alone, but also at the value you get for the amount you put in. Generally, you can get such value from prices as low as $15/month and it is well worth it.

For personal websites where uptime is not as important, you can choose the path of price alone and get the cheapest. The only reason you would get this is if you wanted to reduce expenses as much as possible, and just enough for you to sustain your hobbyist activity at low prices. It can go to as low as $1/month and it will leave hardly any marks on your bank statement.

Depending on your needs, the definition of cheap for a web hosting plan changes and you will want to make sure you switch to the right one when deciding on which cheap web hosting to use.

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Cheap Web Hosting - The Signs of a Bad Host

It is hard to tell if a host a bad, and it is especially so for someone without enough technical knowledge. This article was written to assist those people and open their eyes to some things that they could not see before - and be able to tell a good host from a bad host. We will talk about the areas where a host can fail badly in to reveal its incompetency.

1. Support

The web host that does not get to your support tickets within 24-hours or return your calls is a bad one. This is one of the biggest factors that you should take into account when looking for a web host, even if it is cheap web hosting you are looking for. A web hosting provider that does not have support might just be run by someone from his own bedroom and this leaves your website vulnerable to many things including theft of confidential information. A web host that does not have good support is usually not a proper business, because someone experienced in this industry will know that it is essential.

2. Outdated Testimonials with Broken Client Websites

It is surprising, but most of these web hosting companies do not even bother to remove testimonials that do not contain valid links anymore. This only goes to show how incompetent they are in running the business that they not even put any effort to settle a small problem. Often, these companies start out well when the servers are not as congested, and receive good testimonials from the few clients that they could pay more attention to. As they grow bigger, the flaws start surfacing as they realize that they do not know how to handle a larger customer base.

3. Complaints on External Forums

Search google for the web host you want to find out about and reviews are more than likely to surface. You may even see complaints that they censor on their own forums in an attempt to preserve their image to the oblivious prospects who visit their website. Finding these are a good way to determine if a host is bad due to the unbiased nature of these kind of opinions. If someone goes out of their way just to post a complaint, it has to be bad.

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Cheap Web Hosting Benefits

Cheap web hosting is definitely something that everyone looks for, especially for people who are just starting out and are uncertain of what the internet can bring. A cheap web hosting plan is not necessarily bad. In fact, it will suffice for most people’s needs and saves a lot of extra trouble that more expensive plans will cause. Here, we will talk about a few of them.

1. Price

Cheap web hosting is definitely better in terms of price, as the word cheap already implies. At prices like these, it allows you to have a website using just the extra spare change you have. This means there are hardly any significant expenses involved, and you can actually set up a full-fledged business with this hosting account that actually makes money. At almost zero overhead, this has got to be the best way to start a business. If you’re getting it for personal use, no harm losing a few dollars each month for the amount you can do with a website.

2. Huge Value

This has a huge value most of the time because the hosting company can split the overhead of setting up a server between a few thousand people. In the past, when servers had too little power to accomodate people even in the hundreds, hosting companies were charging fees to set it up, which is essentially to cover the cost of the hardware since they can only host a small amount of people on the server. You probably won’t need anything close to the power of a whole server, so this is a great option as you truly only pay for what you need.

3. Almost no-risk

As I have mentioned a few times earlier, cheap web hosting reduces your risk by many folds. It does not matter if the business you try to set up fails because the loss is hardly anything significant at all. It is great to trial businesses and see if they work out. Never has this opportunity ever existed where you can afford to fail at hundreds of businesses without any significant loss.

Cheap web hosting has been on the rise recently, and it is only because of how much the internet has grown and evolved. This is an amazing opportunity to take advantage of.

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