Cheap Web Hosting is so common nowadays, there is no reason for the typical web owner to pay more than $ 1 – $ 10 per month for web hosting as complete. You need to do a little work to confirm the host you decide to go with a value, reliability, support and features you need to achieve your goals online. These are the most important things to consider when choosing a web host low monthly cost.
Disk Space
How much space will you be needing depends on what type of site you have. If your site has a lot of images or multi media on it you will use a lot more disk space than a text based site. So if you are going to create an online photo gallery, entertainment or an e-commerce website with lot’s of product images, you’ll want to be aware of how much disk space the package allows. There are good packages out on the web for as low as $1.95 per month, which offer 100 MB of disk space. This could easily support hundreds of images.
Data Transfer
Data transfer is the amount of bytes transferred from your site to visitors while browsing. This is also known as “traffic” or “bandwidth”. For most web sites you will not need much bandwidth. Most websites need less than 2GB of data transfer monthly. For example a web site getting 2000 visitors a month transferring pages with lots of images uses about 1.4 GB of data transfer monthly. If you intend to have a lot of downloads of software, audio or video, then you may end up using a lot more bandwidth, maybe 50 GB. Adult sites typically use a lot of bandwidth. Sites like mp3.com require an enormous amount of bandwidth, but for the average site – a low level will be enough in almost all cases. There are packages for as low as $6.95 that offer a whopping 250GB data transfer, more than enough for most websites.
Add On Domains
Say you launch a site that is really successful, you’re getting plenty of traffic and sales and are making money. You may want to replicate the idea within that niche. An “Add On Domain” would allow you to host multiple sites on the same account. All you would do is purchase another domain name, and upload your files to a different folder within your account with the same hosting company. This is great for affiliate marketers because you wont need to pay for another hosting account if you suddenly get any idea for a profitable niche and want to quickly get a website up and running. Many cheap hosting companies offer this great feature.
Scripting
Depending on who is developing your site, script support is something you may need to consider. Many low cost hosts will support either ASP or PHP, but probably not both. A little planning is necessary to avoid problems, potentially big problems down the road!
Make sure you check with whomever is developing the dynamic content for your website before you sign up with any host. What you’ll want to know from the developer is what language they use for scripting dynamic content (usually ASP or PHP) and what kind of database they are using (MS Access, SQL, MySql etc..).