Cheap Web Hosting is No Bargain

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Ever heard the saying "Penny-wise and Dollar-foolish"?



Well bargain priced website hosting may just represent the

perfect example of watching a jar full of pennies while

bucket loads of dollars fly out the window!



When I launched my first website way back in the "dark ages"

of 1997 I paid almost $150 a month in hosting and data

transfer charges.



My web host watched how many files I uploaded like a hawk

and always seemed to send their hefty invoices earlier with

each passing month.



I'm obviously not the only one who felt that way, because

suddenly a whole industry of "bargain" web hosts sprang up

all over the web.



On the surface they all sound great, especially when you

think you can go from $150 a month down to $4.95 a month!



Five bucks a month sounds great, until you realize the

amount of data transfer (number of page views) and bandwidth

(the amount of data transfer your host allows in a 24 hour

period) you get for that low price severely limits your

ability to do business.



This realization - along with a panic attack and a quick

lesson in how data transfer and bandwidth get calculated -

usually comes at the least convenient time.



When you exceed your limits, a bargain host usually just

shuts you down with no warning.



Most webmasters realize they've made a mistake by choosing a

bargain host when their site suddenly gets shut down in the

middle of a big promotion because of a traffic spike.

Believe me, everything just stops!



Here are a few bargain hosts that provide good service, but

you really need to really check the fine print for how much

bandwidth they allow.



www.FeaturePrice.com



For $24.95 a month you get to host up to six independent

websites with a single account. You get unlimited data

storage, unlimited email and a variety of other higher end

services, but their bandwidth policy seems hard to

understand.



www.HostSave.com



Host Save is another low price hosting company that delivers

a wide range of services for only $6.95 per month. They

recently raised their allowable data transfer, but their

policy on how much bandwidth you can use at a given time

seems non-existent.



www.DotEasy.com



For $25 DotEasy offers a domain name purchase along with one

year's hosting. Sounds incredible until you read the fine

print to discover they limit you to 1 Gigabyte of data

transfer a month. Not much data once you start getting

reasonable site traffic.



The moral here? Either be prepared to have your business

shut down mid-stream if you get successful, or pay a few

extra bucks each month to ensure you have enough bandwidth

and data transfer.



At a minimum, specifically ask and read the fine print about

the host's bandwidth and data transfer policies before it's

too late!



About the Author:



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