Cheap Web Hosting is No Bargain!

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of dollars fly out t Ever heard the saying "Penny-wise and Dollar-foolish"?Well bargain priced website hosting may just represent theperfect example of watching a jar full of pennies while bucketloads 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 datatransfer charges. My web host watched how many files Iuploaded like a hawk and always seemed to send their heftyinvoices earlier with each passing month.I'm obviously not the only one who felt that way, becausesuddenly a whole industry of "bargain" web hosts sprang up allover the web.On the surface they all sound great, especially when you thinkyou can go from $150 a month down to $4.95 a month!Five bucks a month sounds great, until you realize the amountof data transfer (number of page views) and bandwidth (theamount of data transfer your host allows in a given period)you get for that low price potentially hampers your ability todo business.This realization - along with a panic attack and a quicklesson in calculating data transfer and bandwidth - usuallycomes at the least convenient time.When you exceed your limits, a bargain host usually just shutsyou down with no warning.
Most webmasters realize they've madea mistake choosing a bargain host when their site suddenlyloads a blank page in the middle of a big promotion trafficspike.Believe me, everything just stops!Here are a few bargain hosts that provide good service, butyou need to carefully check the fine print for how muchbandwidth they allow.www.FeaturePrice.com For about $24.95 a month you get to hostup to six independent websites with a single account. You getunlimited data storage, unlimited email and a variety of otherhigher end services, but their bandwidth policy seems hard tounderstand.They did shut me down when we had a moderate level of successeven though I paid them an extra $300 to get what they called"maximum" bandwidth.
I was NOT pleased and promptly moved thesite (http://www.7dayebook.com) to another host.www.HostSave.com Host Save is another low price hostingcompany that delivers a wide range of services for only $6.95per month. They recently raised their allowable data transfer,but their policy on how much bandwidth you can use at a giventime seems non-existent.www.DotEasy.com For $25 DotEasy offers a domain name purchasealong with one year's hosting.
Sounds incredible until youread the fine print to discover they limit you to 1 Gigabyteof data transfer a month. Not much data once you start gettingreasonable site traffic.The moral here?Either prepare to have your business shut down mid-stream ifyou get successful, or pay a few extra bucks each month toensure you have enough bandwidth and data transfer to operatewithout any service interruptions.At a minimum, specifically ask about and read the fine printregarding the host's policies before it's too late!Jim Edwards is the co-author of the best selling ebook: "33 Days to Online Profits" Article Tags: Data Transfer Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com .