If you are literally counting pennies these days, don’t take it as a reflection on yourself.\u00a0 Everyone at every economic level is doing everything they can to tighten their belts.\u00a0 If this means that you are looking for good, cheap web hosting, then this is nothing to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n
It also doesn’t mean that you have to settle for an inferior product.\u00a0 There is a major quality fight going on in the web hosting world among inexpensive web hosts.\u00a0 Believe it or not this is a buyer’s market, or perhaps more accurately a user’s market.\u00a0 They want your business bad, and are willing to do what they can to get it.\u00a0 These are some of the common features and strengths you should look for when browsing among potential hosts:<\/p>\n
Customer service still reigns supreme<\/strong><\/p>\n The tech world may like to sometimes think that it exists somewhere outside of universal economic laws.\u00a0 It doesn’t, though.\u00a0 All of the same principles that apply to the rest of the business world apply to it as well.\u00a0 This includes the necessity of having a good customer service team.<\/p>\n With our world moving to a more service-oriented economy this in itself is now an entire industry, which means that everywhere you look you will at least see claims of strong customer service.\u00a0 But how do you know if you’ll get it?<\/p>\n There are a few things to check.\u00a0 See if they offer 24\/7 chat support: most places offer 24\/7 phone, but you will honestly prefer chat to phone service: it’s not as easy to copy and paste something someone says to you (not to mention, as much as it is considered a bit uncouth to say so, that you don’t need to worry about understanding the person on the other end).<\/p>\n Ignore the \u201cunlimited\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n One thing to not get caught up in are cheap plans that offer \u201cunlimited\u201d anything.\u00a0 It’s a weird statement on the web hosting world that this is considered something of a norm when any can tell you that nothing can ever be unlimited.\u00a0 Usually that means that the host won’t, for example, restrict your bandwidth unless your really naughty: but then, how do you know exactly how naughty you can be?<\/p>\n How cheap is \u201ccheap\u201d?<\/strong><\/p>\n Prices have come down since the early days of web hosting.\u00a0 This is a reflection of how much more technology has advanced than the average user has needed.\u00a0 This means that what was once dirt cheap is now commonplace.<\/p>\n Right now, if you are looking for something inexpensive but good, you probably don’t want to spend any more than $12\/month, and that’s near the high end.\u00a0 More common are packages for under $8\/month, and they go lower from there.\u00a0 Steer away from free accounts: you are generally better off paying even $4\/month (also a common offer) than you would be dealing with the drawbacks of a \u201cfree\u201d host.\u00a0 And keep an eye out for specials, though do note that some providers live in a constant state of \u201cspecials\u201d, meaning that you don’t have to drop everything when you see one.<\/p>\n Cheap web hosting is probably here to stay.\u00a0 This means that good and cheap web hosting is as well.\u00a0 Follow a few simple tips as you compare possible companies to work with, and a good one will not be hard to find.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you are literally counting pennies these days, don’t take it as a reflection on yourself.\u00a0 Everyone at every economic level is doing everything they can to tighten their belts.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,291],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-stuff","tag-cheap-hosting","tag-customer-service"],"views":139,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webhostinggeeks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}