Why Cheap Web Hosting is Not Always the Best

June 10, 2009 by Butterfly Filed under: Web Hosting

There have always been debates discussing the role that cheap hosting plays in the web hosting world. While cheap hosting may save you a few bucks annually, a low cost web host might not be the best and I am going to show you why in this article.

The first problem that might occur with a cheap web host is the hosting server. A hosting server is often a rushed server. This means the server hosting your website is shared by a lot of other websites. With the overloading of users, the server is not able to support the high number of websites. Although the company may have hundreds of servers, it really depends on your luck on which server your website lands into. If you are lucky, you will get a good one and if not vice versa.

By being in a shared hosting environment, you will not know who your neighbours are and what sort of website they are running. Therefore, you would not know whether you are in a good or bad location in the server. Any slight disturbance from your neighbour could cause a serious problem to your website and it will be like you are hit by a deadly virus. The poor thing is, there is nothing you can do to stop it.

Next, there are also the problems regarding the emails for your account. Cheap hosting is like magnets that attracts spammers and have more possibility of being blacklisted. This will cause a serious problem to your emails if the company that you are using gets blacklisted.

Cheap hosting also has a reputation of not having a clear terms of service (TOS) when it some to revealing their service. However, we are not refereeing to all the companies but most of them do not provide a clear TOS. SO, it could be difficult dealing with them because everything seems unclear. Therefore, before you sign up with any hosting, make sure you are willing to accept their TOS. Whether they are transparent with it or not, we can’t determine but what we can do is choose whether we want to use their service or not.

Another ultimate drawback that really sums up cheap hosting is their lack of support or should I say bad support. With too many users using their services, companies take a long time to respond. It would take days for them to attend to you and this could be very troublesome when you have a problem with your website.

In conclusion, many cheap hosting has been receiving bad reviews and we can say that they deserve it. Many users sign blindly with cheap hosting but return to give them bad reviews because they do not get what they expect. There are some cheap hosting that delivers good service but we must all understand that what e pay for often reflects on the quality of service we will receive.

Therefore, if you decide to go for it, make sure you understand their TOS and accept what they are offering. If not, then you will amongst the huge community that say cheap hosting sucks.