When choosing web hosting service, make sure you stay away from these 3 mistakes most people make, or your business will suffer and you'll murder your bottom line.
Cheap Web Hosting is Good?
Generally, low price means low reliability. If it costs you $1 - $4 per month, then you need to stay alert and avoid choosing the web hosting service. Bear in mind, good things come at a price.
But good news is, due to fierce competition nowadays, some very reputable and reliable web hosts are willing to step down their prices yet continue to offer unmatched hosting service that leaves their competitors in the dust.
That means, you don't have to pay more for a quality service. Buying a reliable web hosting service at an affordable rate is feasible now. But again, not too cheap as in $1 - $4 per month that could result in quality tradeoff.
Should You Opt for Free or Paid Web Hosting?
The second mistake most people make when choosing web hosting service - once they sign up for a free hosting plan, and if they wanted to get more features and resources, they'll upgrade to become a paid user with the same company.
If you want to get better features and more resources, I don't recommend you to upgrade with the free hosting provider because they tend to give you low reliability and poor quality service. Here's why.
Yes, you get relatively more bandwidth, disk space, domain etc because you've paid them. But don't forget that you're sharing your resources with so many free users in there.
Typically, a free hosting plan will squeeze as many as 1000 users (mixture of free and paid users with free users generally outnumbering paid users by 10 - 50 times) in a shared server to cut cost. Can you imagine you're sharing a unit with so many free tenants who might hog the resources and cause a system malfunction, which in turn affect your website operation?
It only takes a few free users to abuse the resources and pull down your business. And you can imagine how much money you would have lost if you were running several moneymaking websites with that hosting company.
What's worse is that, if you compare their prices against companies providing only paid hosting plans, you would have found that these paid web hosting companies actually cost lesser yet offer more powerful features, greater resources and robust server.
The main reason is because this type of company does not allow for any free hosting, and the few good ones carry only 50 - 150 users per server (others may house 100 - 250 users per server). By doing so, they're able to buy in more powerful server to ensure optimal server operation without raising the hosting fee.
Having said all that, from the standpoint of a businessperson, it's just not wise and lucrative to choose a web hosting service that also offers free hosting plan besides its paid plan.
Monthly or Yearly Hosting Plan?
No matter how solid a review for a hosting company is, bear this in mind, don't barge straight into a yearly plan. Pretty risky.
Yes, yearly hosting plan will save you some money up front. But if you don't test drive the service via monthly hosting plan first, you can easily get stuck with the provider that gives you chronic migraine for the rest of the remaining period before the contract ends.
Although monthly hosting costs you a few bucks more, it's best to test drive for two months before you commit yearly, so that you can quickly switch a web host without paying too dearly. The best review is your personal experience.
Don't rely solely on other reviews (even though they're genuine) to make your decision. Be rational. Even if it's a Ferrari, it's still wise to test drive before you buy.
My overall advice is, do spend a little more time and effort in choosing a reliable web hosting service, because done right, your business will thrive. Done wrong, you die an ugly death. Period.
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