How to Find a Really Cheap Web Hosting

The webhosting industry is a ferociously competitive business arena. In a survival-in-the-fittest atmosphere, some webhosts, sad to say, are playing dirty in the game. I am speaking from my experience in which one active forum site of mine was shut down, without giving me the courtesy of advance notice, by my previous webhost. Indeed that cruel webhost I had with last year was flaunting in its marketing strategies that it is cheap, offering a wide range of the so-called “unlimited” space and bandwidth.

Nothing can be farther from the truth. There is no such thing as unlimited. I used to think that way that unlimited is real, but the truth of the matter is that it is just a marketing ploy. But why are most webhosts offering unlimited offers? As has been pointed out in the opening of this article, the competition is so intense that everybody is jumping into the bandwagon of “unlimited” without realizing that they can’t fool all people all the time. At some point, the truth sticks out, and the world will know the real deal that you can’t really pay for unlimited resources for, say, $10 a month.

So, how do we find a real cheap web hosting? How do we know that a webhost is not tricking us into buying a service that is unrealistic, or shall we say “too good to be true”? I suggest that you shop around, as I often do, and study the offers presented by a particular webhost. If its webhosting package is too good to be true, then you know it can’t be true. One way of unveiling the truth is by comparing a webhost’s shared and VPS plans. Have you ever asked why would you pay for such a low price for an unlimited hosting but pay thrice as much price for a limited hosting such as a VPS plan? Now, I happen to stumble one webhost in the UK that appears to be realistic. Knethosting.co.uk is offering a basic hosting package of 14.95 (British pound) a year for a 20GB bandwidth and 500MB of web space. I would rather throw my trust to this kind of webhost that shows its real color than expect too much from an unrealistic webhost that won’t deliver what it promised and advertised.

You should also remember that you don’t really need that much web space. A blogsite powered by Wordpress requires 10,000 pages for a database of 100MB size to be used up. I have a forum site that now has 225,000 posts and it only uses more than 200MB of database space.

Again, when choosing a really cheap web hosting, learn to differentiate between a realistic offer and an unrealistic offer, and you will be spared from unwanted trouble in the future.