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can I find Cheap
Web Hosting and still get Quality Service?
Web
hosting is a competitive business. Just because the web hosting
is cheap, does not mean that it is not a quality service. Like
name-brand clothing, sometimes when you pay more for a big name,
you are paying mostly for the name and not for the quality. Most
of us want to find the best deal for our money, so it is worth
investigating. Look for the following requirements to ensure you
have chosen a quality cheap
web host.
Disk Space and Applications
First you’ll need to find how much space you will need for
your website. The computer language for space is Megabytes (MB).
Most websites (about 90%) need less than 100 MB's (megabytes)
to handle the files and images with ease. A good rule of thumb,
the average website shouldn’t cost anymore than $0.10 per
MB. If the cheap web host fits within this rule, than you can
know you are getting a good deal. Just
5 Bucks Hosting is a great example of a site that easily meets
the cost per MB requirement.
Next, you’ll
want to examine the bandwidth. Bandwidth has to do with the data
transfer (how fast your pictures and files can be sent to others)
and the computer term for this is Gigabytes (GB). An average web
site shouldn’t cost more than $3 per GB. Again Just 5 Bucks
Hosting is a low
cost web site host that fits the GB requirements.
Avoid long-term
contracts
Look for a low
cost web site hosting company that offers monthly contracts
so you can test the waters to see if the web host is as good as
it seems. Just5BuckHosting.com is a good example of a low cost
host that offers monthly contracts. Some inexpensive
hosting sites want you to sign a yearly contract to use their
hosting services. These cheap
hosting sites may offer discounts for signing up long term.
However, these web hosts can go out of business or want you to
move to another web hosting site and then you may lose out on
many months of hosting fees.
Support
Some people think that the more money you pay to a host company
the better service you're going to get, which isn't always the
case. Cheap
web hosts can have great support though it is something you
will want to check. A good way to find out if the low-cost host
you are investigating has good support is to sign up for a month
and then use their support services often and see what kind of
response you receive. Just 5 Bucks Hosting is one of those companies
that has an online ticketing system (kind of like email except
you enter the question right on their site) so you get fast almost
immediate response to your questions.
Many of us
are afraid to try things that we don’t know. We will often
choose a name brand and pay more just because we don’t know
any better. It is definitely worth the time and money to investigate
cheap web
hosting companies. Who knows, you may just find something
that really is “too good to be true.”
Catherine
Duke, B.S.
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