If you have high ambitions with your website, then I don’t think you should read this article. When you are expecting something big from your website, don’t expect it cheap. Cheap web hosting services will not give you great services. If you want to start up your online business and test your skills, then it is not a bad idea hiring the cheaper company. But the problem with cheap companies is, most of them are too bad. They can’t satisfy their customers by any means. Still there are some good companies who will be able to fulfill your smaller expectations quite successfully. You need to find those companies if your budget is low.
Is It Possible to Get Good Services With a Small Budget?
This is quite tricky question. First of all, small budget is a relative thing. For someone $100 is a small budget, while some people consider $1000 as small budget. However, there are lots of examples of getting really bad results from hosting companies even after paying them large amounts of money. On the other hand there are examples of getting extra-ordinary service even after paying less. Sit depends a lot on how you choose your service. But if you want to know a straight forward answer to the question, then I would say yes, it is possible to get good services with limited budgets.
Seven Tips
I would like to share seven suggestions for choosing a good, but cheap web hosting service:
- What do you want to do with your website? Do you have plans to expand the website in the future? How much downtime you can tolerate? Ask these basic questions to yourself. After answering these questions, you will understand what you expect from your website and whether it is possible to fulfill those expectations in cheap rates realistically.
- Cheaper services most probably won’t help you with developers when you need to make changes to your website. You might need to make the changes yourself or hire a developer for it. You can maintain your website all by yourself without web development knowledge if you the control panel is easy to understand. Take a look at the control panel and try to use it before you hire your hosting company.
- Sometimes a web hosting service may look quite cheap from the outside; the offers are represented in that way. But some hidden costs can appear. For example, there are many web hosting services which will let you purchase a domain for almost nothing. But when you will need to renew the domain the following year, they will get into your pocket. At this point, you don’t have a second option as you don’t want to sacrifice the domain that you have used almost a year. Gain proper knowledge about all the pricing policies of a hosting service before you hire them.
- Suppose one morning you have found that your account has been suspended. After investigating, you have discovered that you slightly used a bit extra disk space. You didn’t even know that using extra disk space will directly result into account suspension without any warning. Read the policies and conditions of your hosting service before hiring. Otherwise you won’t have anyone but yourself to blame for such a situation.
- Customer service is a very important matter. You need to make sure the hosting service you are considering offer 24/7 live chat option. If they ensure that, you will be able to contact them anytime you face an issue with the hosting options.
- Some hosting services offer money back options after using the demo and not deciding to continue. If you want to use a demo, check the refund policy more than once. You should be very clear of the conditions under which you are going to get your money back. Otherwise you may find yourself wasting both your time and money.
- Finally, you should take a look what the others say about the hosting service you are considering. If you find that the other people are quite positive about their services, then you can have faith on them and give it a go.
Author Bio
David Brown, the author of this article is an experienced writer in web hosting industry. Before writing this article he researched on various companies and also thinks about his own site webhosting company. He used Fatcow hosting and thought that why I still use FatCow? Because, he tried to find out why he choose it for his own website? By researching in various ways he wrote this article and hope that it will help others to choose cheap but reliable web hosting services in budget.