When you’re a newbie, and you want to create only one Wordpress blog, you don’t want to pay $20-$30/month for the hosting service. It’s ok, and as a newbie you really don’t need a VPS or a dedicated server to handle your tiny Wordpress blog, that receives like 200-300 unique visitors per day. So let’s see what are the pros and cons of low cost hosting:

The myth of huge disk space
1. Pro: You get a disk space of 100 GB, 300 GB or even 1 TB!
Con: These companies oversell their resources. If you go with the cheap hosting plans, don’t even dream about creating a porn video site and hosting 90 GB of videos.

Tricky price tags
2. Pro: Yay, these webhosting packages cost only $6-$10/month.
Con: Well if you want to pay monthly or quarterly, than in 99% of the cases you have to pay more than $6-$10/month because only those customers get this discounted price ($6-$10/month) who choose the ‘annual payment’ option. If you want to pay only quarterly than the cost of the hosting plan can increase by $2-$3/month.

The myth of huge bandwidth…
3. Pro: Your account’s monthly bandwidth limit is 3000 GB…
Con: Again, they oversell their resources. Why? Because they’re sure that 99.9999999% of their customers won’t reach even 10% of the monthly bandwidth limit. But if you have a really successful site, a website that uses a lot of bandwidth, and CPU/RAM, they will suspend your account in no time.

Alright, before you ask yourself: If these companies lie about these three things, why should I choose any low cost hosting package?

The answer is simple: Well mate, when you get to the point that you need the power of a VPS for your site, you’ll probably make enough money to cover the costs of a VPS hosting service. Maybe you don’t believe what I say… if you don’t believe me, please take a look at my friend’s Jason Pereira’s blog. Over 350 people subscribed to his blog’s feed, his blog’s Alexa rank is at 60k, and he uses a cheap shared hosting plan at Hostican to host it.

written by Jeremy \\ tags: bandwidth, cheap hosting, disk space, shared hosting, webhosting

Yeah, I mean it, and this is why I wrote that in the title: As you may know, many of the web hosting companies have an affiliate program and they pay high commissions for their affiliates.

How can you trust in a stranger’s words about a web hosting company/plan? In 99.9% of the cases this website owner, this reviewer gets a nice commission after each sale.

Alright, why do I tell you things like this? This is partially a webhosting review blog… am I crazy or what? Well, honesty is one of the most important part of this business. If a company doesn’t deliver what it promises, I don’t want to be it’s business partner (in this case, I don’t want to be it’s affiliate). My ultimate goal is to write honest reviews about hosting services (no matter whether they suck, or they are good & reliable) because people have to know the truth about these companies. So stay tuned folks!

PS: I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’m not a native English speaker, sorry for the grammatical errors, I try to do my best to create quality content.

written by Jeremy \\ tags: cheap hosting, review, web hosting, webhosting review