Find Inexpensive Web Hosting

November 8th, 2008

How would a small business or church go about finding inexpensive web hosting? It’s not as easy as you think. Just because a hosting provider advertises affordable and cheap shared web hosting packages , you need to really be an informed shopper to determine if they really offer inexpensive web hosting.

Any reseller can offer inexpensive web hosting starting at say, $3.95 per month, but following “inexpensive web hosting” tips may help you avoid the duds as you look for a place to host your small business, realty or church site.

A reputable web hosting site should include the following-

Inexpensive web hosting means just that, and you shouldn’t have to search far for the bottom line prices. Sometimes so called discount and inexpensive web hosting providers slip in hidden fees for services the average person would have thought were part of the total deal. Therefore, make sure you check the site carefully for what is included and what is not. If you have any questions, just ask the sales representative.

They should not have to sacrifice quality in terms of things like up time on the servers, professional technical assistance, storage space, email accounts and monthly bandwidth transfer.

The company that is honest will try to keep your business, but not hold you hostage if you choose to leave. For example, once I wanted to transfer my domain to a different host, and the “inexpensive we hosting company would not allow me to point my name servers to the new host. Imagine that! So make sure your host will allow you to do if you outgrow it (as in my case) or you just choose to leave.

On a personal note, I was really impressed with Bluehost.com in this regard, because after I wanted to leave, their tech staff even helped me switch the DNS name servers on my domain to my new host. Was that great of them or what?

Finally, a reputable company will come with a full money back guarantee after 30 days, and will also pro rate your money back on the remaining portion of your contract as a sign of good will. Anything less than that is a little bit shady in my book.

Overall, this is not an exhaustive list of things to look for in decent inexpensive web hosting. However, thinking about these issues before signing a contract may help ensure you get a good host for your business and save you time and money to boot.

Finding the Right Web Hosting

November 8th, 2008

Many web hosting companies out there provide the sane features but require different price for their service. This is really a headache for webmasters who are looking for a web hosting company. No matter how experience a webmaster may be, he or she will have a hard time in choosing but there is a way to handle his situation.

Firstly, to find something that really works for us, we must know what we really want. Therefore, we must set the motive of our approach in finding the web hosting company to host our website. If I am looking to build a professional website, I must find one that has great reliability. If I am going to build a website that will have a high traffic of visitors, I will need a web hosting that gives me a big bandwidth. On the other hand, if I am new and would like to try things out for the first time, a free web hosting would probably be good enough.

Once we are clear of what we want, we need to find a web hosting company that has a good reputation. We can start off by searching from a web hosting related forum. An example of a forum like this would be SitePoint. Searching from a forum is a good start because many members would post their experience with the web hosting companies that they have used. This gives us a good idea on the service provided by the companies. Then we can compare the reliability. Searching a web hosting company from a search engine like Google is an option but we have to be cautious because although those companies are listed, they still might turn out to be fraud. So, it is always better to be safe than sorry. We could also ask around the people that we know regarding their experience with web hosting companies if they have.

So, the next step is to choose the company of our choice. Then, there comes the payment procedures which includes credit card details. Therefore, we must be very sure that the company is legit before revealing our credit details. The best way is to go for reputable companies that have been around for some time. With that we are more confident that they are legit. Therefore, the possibility of being cheated is minimized.

For beginners, the most important thing is to be able to get reliable source on web hosting companies and they will be able to choose without any difficulties. In the end of the day, a choice must be made and the right choice for different people is different. All we can say is to choose depending on ones intuition.