Budget web hosting

Web hosting can be found at budget rates, but as in most areas of life you will get what you pay for. Here are some essential tips to consider while you are looking at what the budget web hosts have to offer.

What you want to avoid in your search for budget web hosting are the following –

1. Hosting sites that have been recently set up, by resellers hoping to make a quick profit, but with no long-term commitment to their business

2. Hosts who oversell (put too many sites on each server). This will impact on the speed web pages will be served.

3. Hosts who don't provide adequate customer support. You need to have help available at all times of the day or night.

All of these issues will impact on the quality of the web hosting you will receive.

Hosting services whose web sites use customer testimonials are suspicious too, particularly if there is no way of contacting the people who have given the testimonial.

Another warning sign is an offer of huge or unlimited bandwidth or disk space, at rates that are well below what other hosting services are currently offering. Many hosts like this will be swamped by the take-up by music, video or image download customers, so the service will be rapidly degraded for other customers like yourself.

Another tactic used by some budget web hosts or hosting resellers is to offer hosting at a cheap rate, but hide that fact that features you may expect in a hosting plan require you to pay more. One common area used like this is site stats. Try to look at demo examples of the stats which come with the hosting package before you sign up.

This is not to say that good, cheap, budget web hosting is not available. We use and also Site5.com, and have been happy with them.