subject: How To Choose The Best Cheap Hosting Service [print this page] There are a plethora of cheap hosting companies out on the market today. In fact, almost every single one tells you that they are the best, and you will get the most bang for your buck with them. There are a number of things you need to consider prior to picking out the best cheap hosting company; they will need meet your requirements for your website or websites. I would invite you to fully digest this article prior to making decisions on what hosting company is right for you.
First, it is important that the hosting company is compatible with what you are trying to accomplish with your website. What do I mean by this? You can't build a website if they do not allow you do certain things. Well, believe it or not, not all cheap hosting companies support the same kinds of scripts. In fact, some do not support MySQL or you have to pay extra so that they allow these databases on your site.
Next, a lot of cheap hosting companies will really limit you on certain areas that are very important. For instance, a lot of hosting companies will limit you to a certain specified number of domains per hosting account. The will be protected with fine print and ask for more money if you wish to upgrade. While others will set a cap on the amount of sub domains you can have.
With the limits to your domains and sub-domains cheap web hosting companies will also limit you to the amount of bandwidth, email accounts, and space you can have on your hosting space. You should carefully consider doing research prior to handing you money over to a cheap hosting provider.
So what a lot of smart "hosting seekers" are doing is checking around before they decide to go with a hosting company. You can always Google a hosting companies name with "consumer reviews" after it to see what people are saying. However, do keep in mind where you get the information from.
Believe it or not cheap hosting services will actually pay people to go around and praise their service. What I typically do is go around and read 10-15 reviews on one hosting company to make sure that all the reviews agree with each other prior to going with there service.
These tips should really help you in finding a good hosting service to go with. Remember to investigate them, just to make sure you are making a good decision.
