Cheap hosting is one of the important causes behind the failure of one’s web site. Cheap hosting company can serve its user for short period, but cheap hosting is not a permanent solution. At present countless number of cheap hosting services are available in the market, but user should act very wisely while choosing any of the service. Before selecting the service, user should make a clear picture in his/her mind about his/her total requirement.

Choosing one among the number of services is a damn difficult job, as user gets totally confused how to select the best one.

Following are the five important things one should know before choosing a cheap hosting package:

1) Amount of bandwidth required.

User should know well in advance the quantity he/she requires in his/her business and the amount of Bandwidth Company is providing. Many times it happens that user did not check the amount of Bandwidth a company is providing and exceeds the limit then the result that occurs is shutting down of site without any warning. This will raise complications for the user so to avoid all this circumstances user should check out all this before.

User in addition must do all the calculations prior to finalizing any host using the formula: Total bandwidth = page views * visits per day * page size

If one’s site get 100 visits per day, 2 page views per visit and site size of 35 Kilobytes:

Total bandwidth = 100 * 2 * 35 = 7000 KB = 7 MB (Megabytes)

Per month: 30 * 7 MB = 210 MB (2.1 GByte)

One can host his/her site with a 5 GBytes cheap web hosting package, There is no problem to host a small site as the available bandwidth is enough and if more is required then it can easily expanded to 10GByte package. But, it will not be a good deal to pay for only 10 GB, while one can get 250GB for the same price, with a multiple domain name hosting plan.

Here we are talking about the transfer bandwidth so don’t get confuse that with storage.

2) Multiple Domain Names

This is also an important area where the web-hosting providers offer a cheap hosting package and they used to add multiple domain names to the deal. The users who are not having any experience about this will be very pleased to see this, but actually by this method the providers use to trap their customers. In this case the user goes and divides up his/her hosting, and then suffers with the problem afterwards as his/her account exceeds bandwidth.

If user wants to save him/her self from this situation then he/she should go for the hosting packages that have over 100 GB of transfer bandwidth to be able to host a minimum of 5 domains. For more domains user needs a much bigger package.

3) Unlimited Domain Names

Often there are several companies attracting customers by offering unlimited domain names however one should note that there is really no need for such thing when the bandwidth is just 10 or 50 GB.

4) Unlimited Bandwidth

This is not possible for any of the web-hosting provider to run his/her business by offering to his/her every client an unlimited cheap hosting package like for just $7.95 per month. With this price he/she is not in the position to provide unlimited bandwidth in cheap hosting package.

These hosting providers only wishes for more sign-ups, just to balance the distribution, but if the user’s web site used to consume more bandwidth, then the provider will at once shut down his/her user’s site and that too without any warning him/her as it costs them money.

5) Storage

Generally no user exceeds the available storage for any hosting account, if his/her website is not having any video or mp3. If user’s website contains any video or mp3 then only he/she requires much amount of storage space.

Every one knows that experience is the best teacher; it used to teach everything very clearly such as what works, and what not. The one who is having the proper experience can easily escape him/her self from the bad deal. So one should not go for any of the service without having its proper knowledge rather he/she should make the decision only after having its complete knowledge and that is possible only by doing proper research.

Thus to conclude one can say that one should take his/her precious time and must look on all the pros and cons before going for a cheap web hosting.



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