by Dillon K. Hoops

Errors I Made While Opting For The Cheapest Web Hosting Service

Looking for the cheapest webs hosting service, without considering other important details, was probably one of my biggest mistakes when I started an online business five years ago. Since then I have switched hosts but I thought I would take the time to let other people know about some of the key mistakes I made and the numerous problems I faced. I will not however, mention the hosting service, as I have no intention of unnecessarily defaming a company on my experiences alone.

I was a bit naïve when I started my business and having examined numerous articles on online success, I thought that attracting thousands of visitors to my website would not be a problem. Considering this, I made it my goal to find the cheapest web hosting service with the maximum number of unlimited features. So my primary concern was just price.

It was easy enough finding many such hosts and most of them provided unlimited options like space and bandwidth. I decided to check up on these services by searching the web and after reviewing many testimonials I decided on a few companies. I rarely considered the authority of the site and found myself being considered of very subjective accounts as opposed to proper details for each of the hosting services.

Another mistake I made was judge the service by its name and website appearance. I believed that companies with funny names were probably not efficient or reliable. Boy was I wrong. I later discovered that some of the best and cheapest web hosting services out there have the most uncommon names, which have nothing to do with hosting or the Internet.

The first few months passed quite smoothly. About three months into operations and having acquired further knowledge along the way I discovered that my site was frequently inaccessible to users, although for short periods, and the speed at which my pages loaded was quite slow. And then my site was offline for a few hours. It made sense. The cheapest web hosting provider I picked was taking receiving more load than it could manage.

The lessons to be learnt are that the cheapest web hosting services often scrimp on resources to lower costs. They also obtain more customers than they can comfortably manage. The hosting company had also done a great job with advertising their services. Subsequently when I switched hosts, I still went for the cheapest web hosting services but made a deliberate effort to check and compare facts in a more objective and until now it seems to be working.