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It seems as if all anyone looks for when they seek a good web hosting plan is cheap web hosting. While it makes sense in this day and age to economize at every turn possible, you may well want to consider the ramifications of choosing a bargain basement price on your hosting, and what it can really cost you. Here are some things to bear in mind when considering a really cheap web hosting plan.
First of all, you are usually very limited in the number of domains (typically one) and space you get to use to host your site on. This, coupled with bandwidth limitations, can hamper your efforts. If you plan to use this site as nothing more than a landing page, or opt in page, you may be able to get away with it. However, should you become somewhat successful with this site, you may find that your host is slowing you down, or cutting you off entirely when you reach your meager space and bandwidth limits. This would obviously not be a good thing!
The features and benefits you get for a cheap hosting plan are of necessity going to be less, so you may find that you are unable to do many of the things you envisioned for your site. You certainly won’t have much ecommerce capability, and your email accounts and services will be very limited. If you have any databases, you’ll likely only have one, and it will be small.
You may in fact be a subdomain on the main hosting site, (This is not always the case) and have very little to say about the configuration and services you can use for your site.
One of the worst disadvantages of cheap web hosting is that when you are on a server with a lot of other people utilizing this low cost hosting, you are much more likely to be exposed to the consequences when these sites use their email services to send spam. You will soon find that every site on that server will be blocked by anti-spam filters, and yours will be among them, even though none of it came from you. Guilt by association!
Consider very carefully whether or not you should indeed opt for this kind of web hosting. A very good hosting plan with all the bells and whistles you could ever want is only a few dollars a month more and it would take so many headaches out of the equation!
Typically you can find a plan that will allow you to host unlimited domains with unlimited server space and bandwidth for less than $10 a month. If you need even more services, or want unique IP addresses or other goodies, a decent reseller plan can be had for around $24 a month. Many times it’s very much worth the extra dollars if you need anything at all beyond hosting a simple page or site.
Take some time to decide if cheap web hosting is for you. It may well end up costing you a lot more in the long run!
