Monday, October 13, 2008

Inexpensive Web Hosting

Inexpensive web hosting is great. Inexpensive web hosts are not. There are a ton of cheap/budget/inexpensive web hosts in the industry and they all follow the golden rule, YOU PAY FOR WHAT YOU GET. Web hosting is an extremely competitive field and this has been good for people like me and you who are trying to buy web hosting because it has driven prices down. Prices can be as low as $2 per month. The problem with that is along with the prices the service from the web hosts has also been driven down.

There are thousands of web hosts out there and they offer all different levels of web hosting that all cost different amounts. Shared hosting is the least expensive and therefore most popular type of hosting. Most web hosts in the industry offer this type of hosting for very cheap. These web hosts are companies trying to make a profit. In order for them to make a profit when they are selling such a cheap product they have to sell it to a lot of people in order to make a good profit. This means their servers have to handle more people, their support staff and system has to handle more people, you share the space on the servers with more people, and more than likely their IT staff has to handle more hardware and software problems because of the overload of people. This can all cause major problems and plenty of headaches for website owners. This is why many small web hosts fail because they simply do not have a big enough business structure to handle the load they would have to in order to be profitable business. It takes a big time web host to handle the load of customers they would have to have, but even they can still have some of the same problems.

So How Do You Get Inexpensive Web Hosting?


Fortunately there are ways to get inexpensive web hosting without resorting to going with low quality web hosts. You have to be a smart shopper in order to do this. The highest priority when you are looking for a web host is finding an all around quality web host. Second to that is price. Two strategies for getting high quality web hosting while at the same time getting inexpensive web hosting is to use web hosting rebates from sites like http://www.rebaterabbit.com/ or coupons from sites like www.couponcraze.com. You can get a lot of money off the cost of web hosting by using these sites. Getting money off gives you more options. If a web host costs $15/month they more than likely have higher quality web hosting than a web host that costs $2/month but, the $15 web host is just out of your budget. If you go to one of the sites above it can be in your budget after you get the money off. A Rebate would make it so you could get the quality of the $15 web host for the price of the $15 web host. Getting the best quality web host while also getting inexpensive web hosting is the best of both worlds and it is possible if you are a smart shopper and you shop around before you buy too quickly. Good Luck and Get Started!