Welcome to Web Hosting HQ, a comprehensive guide to Internet web hosting companies offering competitive web hosting plans for your websites.
Web Hosting HQ covers three general types of web hosting plans: shared hosting, reseller hosting and virtual private server hosting.
Beware of ultra-cheap hosting, if you value your site you should expect to pay more than the absolute minimum. Is it really worth saving a few dollars if your site is plagued by downtime, slow response and poor support? It is usually a false economy to go for the absolute cheapest product on the market - "buy cheap, buy twice" is my experience, and with web hosting you don't want the inconvenience and potential downtime involved in moving your site to another host.
When choosing a web hosting company, you should be looking beyond the features offered for the price. Reliability and support usually turn out to the be the real differences between companies. As a rule of thumb, it is not wise to believe any claims of unlimited bandwidth or unlimited storage space. All hosting companies use standard servers, whose resources will be limited in some way at some point. Many companies business plans rely on that fact that most customers will not use all their allocated transfer or disk space, so they cram on more customers to use up this capacity. This practice, known as over-selling, results in lower prices, but can increase the risk of the server being destabilised. It's a balancing act between low prices and reliability. With this in mind, it is better to go for a company that isn't excessively over-selling, so this means paying more than the absolute minimum. As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for. Expect to pay about around $10 per month for a basic hosting plan from a reliable web host.