Affordable low cost web hosting is great and all, but at what point does it not really matter how cheap it is? At a certain point, you have to say “Hey, I wanted a little more for my money.” Let us take for example someone who hosts an adult web site. Now, it is hard enough to find a web host that is okay with porn web hosting in the first place, so that plus a low price looks like a great deal. But let us say that the host is easily cracked, has poor security and no real firewalls in place. The result? Your customers know that their profiles are not secure, and your content is basically being put out on the web for free. That will kill an adult web site.
Finding the right host means finding one at the right price and that has all the right features. At the very least, you should look for the following in any web host that you are considering.
Now, you can add on your own “must haves” to the list, but the above items are really pretty important. A customer does not want to go to a web site that is always crashing because of low bandwidth, and you do not want to deal with a web host that never returns your emails when someone hacks into your web site.
The above is not really anything for a web host to brag about, either. This is just the basic, bare bones of what a customer should expect. Sadly, very few hosts actually offer all of this. Many will promise you a great price but then reveal that that price is for their limited, entry level package where you are stuck at so many megs. This is ridiculous. If they can give one user unlimited storage, then why do they have to cut you off at a half a gig? To get you to pay more when you have to surpass that barrier, that’s why.
Find a reliable, easy to use web host that gives you everything for the price. You do not want cheap service for a low price, you want good service for a low price.