Putting the words low cost and reliable together doesn’t always mesh, but in the case of web hosting there are many services available now that are indeed both low cost and reliable. Low cost web hosting services are now an abundant thing on the Internet and you can find reliable service at a number of companies for under $10 per month.
While low cost is always a good thing you will still want to know what ‘reliable’ means. Here is what you should look for in a low cost and reliable web hosting company:
• Customer Service: This is the most important factor in reliability. Almost every web hosting company out today says that they offer 24/7 support, but some only offer this support by way of e mail or an automated phone service. When something goes wrong with your website you need it fixed immediately. Be sure that the web hosting service you choose has actual phone service with ‘live’ people taking the calls 24/7. At the very least, be sure that the web hosting service has live support via chat 24/7 if phone support is out.
• High Uptime: Uptime is how often you can expect your site to be running at full capacity. Now ideally, 100 percent uptime would be perfect, but that just isn’t going to happen no matter how much money you pay. However, you can find a number of low cost web hosting services that will have an uptime of 99.9 percent and really you shouldn’t look at those that have any less than 99.5 percent. The reason is simple; when your site is down, you lose money. But with a 99.9 percent uptime if your site does go down, it will be fast and painless and you probably won’t even know that it was out.
• Transfer Speed: It used to be that low cost web hosting meant low page loading because of a slow transfer speeds. These days however, the low cost web hosting services usually offer page loads via transfer speeds as good, if not better that their more expensive counterparts. Test this out by finding another website that is hosted with the web hosting service you are considering and see how fast their pages load for you.
• Disk Space: This is how much you are allowed to have on your website. A good website will always have content constantly being added. If you have a limit to your disk space then eventually you will be either out of luck, or charged a high amount of money because you go over your disk space allowance. There is no need for this scenario to ever happen as many low cost web hoisting companies now offer unlimited disk space.
It may sound too good to be true but there are low cost web hosting services that are just as reliable as the most expensive ones that are out today. But the fact is that it is true and as long as the low cost web hosting company you are considering has good customer service, high uptime, fast transfer speeds, and unlimited disk space then there is no reason to pay more for it; unless you simply like to throw your money away.
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