Cheap Internet Hosting - Get The Most For Your Money With
a Cheap Web
Hosting Package
With so many web hosting companies competing for your
web hosting dollar, the companies have had to stretch their
imagination to come up with ways to convince you that their
company is giving you the most for your money, and consequently,
the most affordable web hosting package for you. The most
typical way they've done this is to throw in a bunch of
bells and whistles to create full 'packages' so that you
get everything you need - and a lot you don't - for one
low, affordable price.
To the typical new web hosting customer just putting up
a web site of his own for the first time, all the options
available can seem like a bowl of alphabet soup: lots of
letters with very little meaning. Let's take a look at some
of the most common bells and whistles that you'll find in
web hosting packages typically labeled as affordable.
Storage and Traffic Allotments
These are expressed in MBs and GBs - megabytes and gigabytes.
They're the basic building blocks of all hosting plans.
Storage is how much room you have to store files on the
web hosting company's server. Traffic is how many bytes
of data you can transfer to visitors to your web site.
How much do you need? It depends on what you're planning
to use your web site for. Unless you'll be running a lot
of applications, doing streaming video or audio, or running
a very large, database driven web site, you don't need more
than 1 GB of transfer allotment. Likewise, you can estimate
the amount of storage space you'll need by taking a look
at how much space your files take up on your computer. Unless
you're planning to store a lot of images or large files,
20 MBs is more than sufficient for your needs.
You can find web hosting packages free that offer you 10-25
MBs of storage space, and for $5.95 and less per month that
will give you 300 to 1000 MBs.
Free Domain Name or Transfer
Registering your own domain name can cost anywhere from
$4.95 to $35 a year, depending on where you register and
what top level domain - what's after the dot - you choose.
Transferring your hosting from one web host to another will
usually cost about the same. Free domain name savings: 50
cents to a dollar a month.
Unlimited Sub-domains
A sub-domain is a lower level directory in your main directory
- except it goes at the FRONT of your web site name instead
of after the .com. Some web hosting companies charge you
to set each one up, or limit the number you can host on
your domain. With the number of otherwise identical plans
that allow you unlimited sub-domains with no setup fees,
there's no reason to pay extra for them.
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