Cheap Web Hosting for the Penny Pincher in All of Us
If there’s one thing I know, it’s the Internet. I’ve been online for many years and I have numerous websites. Each site is hosted by; you guessed it, a web hosting company.
When I began online with my first website I signed up for an account with a company and received 50 MB of space and 200 MB of bandwidth for $29.99 a month. Back then this was considered an amazing deal and this company blew the competition out of the water.
Today however, you would be crazy to pay $29.99 for such little storage space and bandwidth. I’ve been with numerous hosting companies in the past and what is more important to me than price and features is the quality of their customer service. I need to know that if I have a problem or if my site goes down, I won’t be left in the dark.
In 2001 I had several sites hosted with a company that went down because of a server crash. I received hundreds of e-mails from angry customers asking when my sites would return. I called my hosting company and they expected the problem to be fixed within 48 hours. 48 hours?! WHAT?!
I quickly signed up at another web host and changed my DNS details on all of the domains. I was up and running again within a few hours. Even though I was paid up in full for a few more months with the previous company, you can’t put a price on your reputation and customer satisfaction. Besides, I would have lost more money than I spent if I had waited 48 hours for my sites to come back up.
Many hosts tend to oversell their plans, and that’s something I’m not a fan of. Here’s an offer I just saw last week:
500 GB of space
3,400 GB of bandwidth
All of this for only $9.99/month. C’mon now… unless your site is MySpace, do you really need that much space and bandwidth?! My experience with these crazy offers is this… most hosts cap you at 10% CPU resources. Sure you can have all the bandwidth in the world, but you won’t reach your limit before they cut you off for using too many resources on their server. To the beginner website maker, this offer may look very appealing and almost too good to be true. Don’t fall for it.
The best offers from web hosts I’ve seen give you a reasonable amount of space, I said REASONABLE amount of space. Don’t buy more than you need.
I’m presently with a host that I absolutely love. It’s fairly new company out of Canada, but they’ve proven themselves early in the hosting game to be a major player. Their support desk is there whenever I need it, and I have all the features I need to run my sites.
If you’re looking for a cheap host that does not skimp on customer service and friendliness, I highly recommend TribuneHosting.com.
Chris Jacobson
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