Why Having Cheap Web Hosting Could Actually Cost You Money!
Many webmasters start up their websites on a budget, as a result many go with the cheapest hosting they can buy. This is all very well but you get what you pay for in this world, and buying cheap hosting can end up not saving you money but actually costing you money!
- Cheap hosts often have more downtime. When your website is down people can’t visit it, these visitors may have bought from you or clicked an adsense ad on your site. And by not seeing your site they are also highly unlikely to be a return visitor!
- Cheap hosts often oversell too much on servers. Overselling is what allows cheap hosts to provide hosting at such a low cost. If overselling gets out of hand the cpu and ram become overloaded and your site is down! If this happens once again you lose customers/return visitors.
- Slow performance can annoy visitors. If your website loads quite slowly (this could be down to your coding, not the server) visitors will get annoyed and probably not want to visit your site again.
- When your site expands you will then have money to move to larger/better hosting package. In the process you will need to mvoe the site to the new hosting, this can often have problems causing errors and requires the site to be offline for hours/days whilst the move is complete. Being on a quality host from the start avoids this.
- Poor customer service from the host. Cheap hosts sometimes scrimp on the support staff as well, so getting answers when you have urgent problems can take longer than on more costly hosts.
- Less customer features. Some hosts provide unique features for members, whether it is web design templates or extra cpanel features. Cheap hosts often won’t provide anything extra which may have helped your website.
In this blog post i’ve listed 6 reasons why going with a cheap host is not a good idea, Im sure those with poor experiences could list even more reasons. For the sake of an extra $4 or $5 per month I highly recommend going with a quality host! You get what you pay for!
Published on May 1, 2008
