When you are on a budget and have decided to start your own online business or expand
your business to the Internet choosing a good cheap hosting provider can be a hard decision. There a are million hosting providers out there. Sometimes it can seem overwhelming to choose a company that will come with all the features you need. More importantly, you will want to make sure that they are a cheap hosting service, because we are not all made of money.
So of course when you go to a cheap hosting providers site, they are going to tell you all their testimonials and reasons why you should choose their service. But, you have to use your head in order to make a good decision. Personally I have never been a fan of testimonials. No company is going to tell you all the negative experiences people have had with them. It is up to you to check on these services to see what other users are saying about their service.
Case and point, they can say anything about their cheap hosting company that they want. "Excellent customer service with loads of features". However, other people might be reporting very long wait times on the phone, and their hosting service is outsourced to a third world country. So just remember that there are two sides to every story.
Another tidbit you should keep in mind when choosing a cheap hosting company is how much bandwidth do they offer their customers. Bandwidth simply just determines how many people can view your site per month or how much traffic your site can handle per month. You run out of bandwidth and your users will get an error message when going to your site.
Most cheap web hosting companies will allow you to host a limited or unlimited amount of domains with your package. In case, they only allow a certain amount of domains under your hosting account you need to make sure that you have the freedom to upgrade at anytime you want more.
Last but not least you need to make sure that the cheap hosting provider you go with is reliable. A good host will promise that your site will be up for at least 99% of the time. A lot of good hosting providers even backup your data on a regular basis so just incase something happens you have it backed up.