| Affordable webhosting is a term that is | | | | contention ratios or load times. This means that your |
| misunderstood because you have to understand the | | | | website will simply not load quickly and looking at the |
| difference between providers costs versus reliability. | | | | statistics that the average time a person will wait is 5 |
| Most of us want the cheapest hosting available but | | | | seconds for a page to load this is not a desirable |
| this usually will shoot you in the foot so to speak so | | | | outcome. Cheap fees usually mean that there is little |
| I will show you what to look for when choosing an | | | | to no maintenance being done on a server. That |
| affordable hosting provider. | | | | leads to a common problem of a website being |
| I like to relate webhosting to your mobile (or cell) | | | | unavailable because the server is down. Finally if the |
| phone provider. In all honesty I will not go with the | | | | provider does not care about their customers they |
| cheapest provider because I will simply be throwing | | | | will usually try and 'cram' as many users onto 1 server |
| my money away. There is a provider in Australia | | | | as possible because this saves their costs. This |
| known as vodaphone in its network is not the best... | | | | obviously leads to limited disk space, load time and |
| that is for sure! They are the cheapest but if I pay a | | | | your website not having proper capacity support. |
| little bit more and go with ta different provider then I | | | | So why do these cheap hosting providers take such |
| have the peace of mind that my phone will have | | | | risks with their customers? The answer is simple, |
| reception where ever I might be. Therefore you can | | | | they rely on new sign ups to replace the customers |
| start to see the ratio of cost versus reliability that I | | | | who leave and are unhappy. This is one of the oldest |
| use. | | | | tricks in the book where a low price will continue to |
| So how do we measure a webhosting providers | | | | attract new customers who will replace the old |
| reliability? The company profile is obviously the first | | | | customers. It is unfortunate but that is the way the |
| thing to look at but what next. The next step is to | | | | world works. |
| look into the servers that they use, the maintenance | | | | So to get to the point of you reading this article, |
| on the servers and the amount of users that are | | | | which webhosting provider should you choose? My |
| limited to each server. This can be achieved through | | | | personal recommendation is a provider called 2ip who |
| a simple email to the company or even checking their | | | | are based out of Canada. They have 300 servers |
| FAQ section. So the reason that most cheap | | | | and an extensive client base Internationally. They are |
| providers can charge so little is because they use | | | | actually having a one time payment offer. |
| basic servers that cost little but have very slow | | | | |