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.

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

Yesterday I was checking out some threads on Webhostingtalk.com, and I bumped into this thread. According to the original poster, some scumbag (probably the owner of ResellerUnlimitedHosting.com, henceforth referred to as RUH) copied the design of Downtownhost.com which is a reliable web hosting company.

Here are two screenshots about the too sites:

Some of the members of Webhostingtalk forum thought that it’s interesting that a ‘company’ steals the design of another company, and that’s why they contacted RUH via live chat, to ask what the hell is ResellerUnlimitedHosting.com doing, why did RUH steal the design of another hosting company’s website etc. As you can read in the chat logs, the support guy at RUH stated that they are the child company of Downtown host. Don’t worry, the story gets better… why? Because the owner (his nickname is: Jedito) of Downtown host is a (respected) member of the WHT community and the other members of WHT sent him a pm about this copyright infringement. After that Jedito sent a DMCA letter to RUH, and now he is waiting for a response (I doubt that RUH will respond to that letter…).

Here is the log of the chat between Jedito (in this conversation: ‘you’) and the support guy at RUH (Kevin):

you: Hi
you: when do you plan to remove the current design?
you: my name is Jorge Catena, and I own DowntownHost LLC
Kevin: remove what?
you: I prefer to not send DCMA letter to Gnax, but not answering my email you’re forcing me to do it
you: remove the design, it’s ripped off from our
Kevin: what are you talking about?
you: downtownhost.com
you: rings you a bell?
Kevin: oh you stolen our design man
you: are you stupid?
you: or pretending to be?
Kevin: pls remove it…other wise ill take legal action against you…
you: do you really want to have legal issues?
you: Ok, I see, you’re an idiot
you: I’m sending at this moment a DCMA letter to Gnax
Kevin: ill send letter to DCMA
you: to DCMA? you don’t even know what’s that
you: what a waste of time
Kevin: stop ********..ill definitly take an actions against you

As you can see Kevin the RUH support guy was so stupid that he didn’t even know what DMCA is… (I know…Jedito was the one who mispelled it twice, but this guy at RUH was so stupid, that he just copied and pasted the mispelled word). The fun part of this chat is that Jedito (you know, the owner of Downtownhost.com) got threatened with a DMCA counterclaim. It’s ridiculous that a scumbag can steal and lie without any consequences. I hope Jedito will ‘win this war’.

For further information about this ‘case’, visit this thread.

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written by Jeremy \\ tags: company, scam, web hosting, web hosting scam, webhosting

Webhosting is an essential part of a successful website. You can’t create a successful site without a reliable webhost. That’s why I wanted to create a blog about it, because there are so many mysteries in the world of webhosting, people know too little about the big hosting companies etc. My goal is to create a blog that covers the following topics:

-infos about hosting companies

-webhosting plan reviews

-interviews with A-list bloggers about the their history with hosting companies

and the list goes on…

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written by Jeremy \\ tags: blog, company, webhosting