3 Common Mistakes For Choosing A Web Hosting Plan

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Nowadays, Choosing a web hosting is an easy thing. The cost of web hosting services is much lower than few years before. Many web hosts offer special price, coupon code, bonus hosting features, free domain name, unlimited space and bandwidth, money back guarantee, etc. to attract your business.

Because the price is affordable and the process of signing up an account is very easy, more and more people join into webmaster crowed. There are some mistakes that you need to pay attention when you choose a web hosting plan.

1. Don’t know what kind of website you are going to build
The best web hosting plan should be a plan that is most suit for your website’s need. Before you start to choose a web hosting plan, you should clearly understand what website you are going to have, a personal blog, online shop, music download, and so on.

2. Don’t do any research on a web hosting provider
Many people sign up a web hosting package haphazardly. They may like the website of the web host; they may happen to see the ads of the web host, or they may just got a coupon. You need to do some research on the prospective web host, such as network uptime, customer support, users’ comments, reputation, etc. Do you think 99% uptime is good enough? If I tell you that the downtime will be 3 days and 15.6 hours in a year, you probably don’t choose the web host that offers 99% uptime guarantee.

3. Pay things they don’t need
Is an expensive hosting plan better than a cheaper one? It depends what you need. If you just need to host your personal blog, a $3.95/mo shared cheap hosting plan, like ixwebhosting expert plan, is good enough. You don’t need to pay $21.95/mo to get a plan that is designed for a ecommerce website. If you have a small business website that only got 100 visitors a day, you absolutely don’t need a dedicated server.

Changing a hosting plan or switching to other web hosting providers are not easy. Avoiding above 3 common mistakes will avoid getting into web hosting trouble.

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  1. merchant account, on July 24th, 2009 at 7:41 am

    This is a great story also posted it to twitter. Thanks!

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  3. CheapHostingChoice, on July 24th, 2009 at 4:08 pm

    Hi Zoran,

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