Cheap Hosting

Sunday, November 22. 2009

Is cheap hosting worth the price you pay? If you're like me, there's a good chance you have more than one make money online website, and paying for expensive hosting just isn't an option.

I guess all hosting is different, and it's not fair to generalize, after all you might easily buy cheap hosting that isn't very good, or you could get a bargain with excellent service and uptime.

Personally I never pay more than $3-$4 per month for hosting, I just don't think it is worth paying more than that for my make money online websites. All of my websites need to make a profit. If they don't, they're no good to me.

And I think many of the people who read my blog are not rich, like me you have to struggle to make ends meet. Well, not me anymore. I use cheap hosting, and every website I own makes a profit. This is why I think cheap hosting is better than expensive hosting.

A lot of people I know tell me about special deals with unlimited domains and bandwidth for $6 per month, but in my experience these aren't worth having. Let me tell you why.

Let's say you have 5 websites, and they all make money for you. Sooner or later you're going to want to link them all together, but if they're all on just one host account they'll share the same IP address. That's not good news if you're serious about ranking in the search engines.

So, you'll probably need 5 different host accounts, and now you get it, cheap is better. Don't worry about poor service, just do your research and make sure the company you choose is big enough. I always send an email to any host company before I sign up, just to make sure someone will answer me. If they do, and I like their answer, then I use them.
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  1. Linda said,

    Wednesday, November 25. 2009 at 18:56 (Reply)

    I found your comments very interesting and thought-provoking. Don't know about your other visitors, but I'd welcome your reviews on the various cheap web hosting companies you use. For example, how do you think namecheap compares to godaddy?

  2. Carl said,

    Thursday, November 26. 2009 at 09:23 (Reply)

    Hi Linda, you're not the first to comment on this article, but I deleted the other comments for trying to spam me. However, some have agreed with me, others think webmasters should get a reseller account.

    I can review the hosts I've used, that might be a worthwhile project, but of the two you mention, Namecheap or GoDaddy, they are both a good choice for a site that isn't terribly important. Customer service from both can be frustrating, and GoDaddy have a curious way of storing databases that means it isn't easy to backup your database. I guess if you have a low traffic site in a high paying niche you're not going to be too worried about some downtime, maybe a few hours per month, and these hosts would be fine.

    And since the purpose of being an Internet Marketer is to be active in high paying or high converting niches, losing a few hours of clicks isn't going to hurt you very much. This is my reasoning. If a site is earning me $100 per month, then it isn't worth putting it on a $10 a month host plan. On the other hand if it's earning $100 a day, then it definitely is.

    The reason I don't use a reseller account is that eventually I may want to link my money sites, and that works better when they're on separate IP addresses. Using a reseller account is convenient, but it means losing the ability to put your money sites on different IP addresses.

  3. Bellamy said,

    Friday, November 27. 2009 at 09:22 (Reply)

    I'm not so sure about GoDaddy. I haven't had any problems personally, but it seems like most forum users/bloggers aren't too keen on them. For one, they claim that GoDaddy is pretty quick to abandon any whois protection you may have purchased, and for another that GoDaddy is in the habit of rapidly locking/shutting down sites that are accused of anything remotely questionable. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I see how misunderstandings could happen.

  4. Carl said,

    Friday, November 27. 2009 at 10:09 (Reply)

    My own experience of using GoDaddy was disastrous. In my opinion their website is way too difficult to use and I hated that everytime I ordered a new service I was bombarded with other offers before I could complete the transaction. And I will NEVER register a domain with GoDaddy again. Hosting might be fine for most people, but protect your domains and register them somewhere else.

  5. Rok Mejak said,

    Tuesday, December 1. 2009 at 14:31 (Reply)

    Thanks for an informative and interesting post.I have an question regarding hosting please clear it

    Q) Is webpage take more time to open (opens slowly) then this is in result of cheap webhosting? ma friend told me that this issues arises because of cheap hosing.

  6. Carl said,

    Tuesday, December 1. 2009 at 15:09 (Reply)

    Some cheap hosting can have problems with a site opening slowly, sometimes it is because there are too many websites on one server, other times it is because the host company has a bad connection.

    But even hosting that you pay $5 or $10 per month for is going to cause problems as well. The reality is that if downtime is a big concern then you should pay for business class hosting.

    However I use cheap hosting for websites because I don't care if I lose a few hours of uptime.

  7. Varna Webdesign said,

    Monday, December 7. 2009 at 16:04 (Reply)

    I think 20-25 euro for year is a reasonable price for hosting. And you can aqiure pretty decent services for this money

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