How good is cheap web hosting

A guide to cheap web hosting

People are often confused whether to purchase a highly priced hosting packages or low priced hosting packages.
Its human tendency to assume that expensive services are always better than inexpensive ones.

However this is not always true as we at hosterio also provide you cheap web hosting packages with top notch support and excellent quality services. We treat your site like a baby on our Server.

Its not advisable to purchase hosting from those companies who offers you to pay $1 per month for unlimited web space and unlimited bandwidth as no one can provide you the same. Its advisable to talk to the hosting companies on phone first so that you can atleast be sure that they really exist and all the contact information as given on their site is not bogus. They must have some office and staff to manage the day to day activities and not just a one man running business from his home.

To test you may drop emails to them and see how fast they reply to you as its an plus point for you if you get fast responses from that company.

You may even ask few references of their existing customers so that you can get a clear picture of that hosting company.

Read their terms and condition clearly as many a time cheap web hosting provers have lot of uncommon hidden terms and conditions which may lead to termination of your account in future.

You may also like to read the tips on choosing a right hosting company so that you can take a better decision.

Shared vs Dedicated Hosting

Shared or dedicated. Which one is better for me?
In very simple terms Shared hosting also known as Virual hosting is one where your hosting company hosts lot of websites on one Server ie your site as well as your neighbour’s website may be hosted on the same server.
By the name itself you can think that in shared hosting server space is shared between many users.

While in dedicated hosting, your site alone is hosted on server, you own all the space on web server and space is not shared with any other user. The whole server is dedicated to your sites.

Shared hosting is cheap where as dedicated hosting is costly.
The reason why shared is cheap is simple. Suppose a web hosting company purchsed a web server with 80 GB web space then the company can sell it to 80 users with 1 gb space for each user and this brings the profit to the hosting company. Wher as in dedicated hosting you have to pay alone for that 80 Gb web space.

You must have seen offers where hosting company provides you hosting as low as $6.95 per month, this is shared hosting.
Where as dedicated hosting costs you more than $75 per month.

Most of the people go with shared hosting as its cheap in comparison to dedicated hosting.

LINUX HOSTING OR WINDOWS HOSTING ?

People are often confused over Windows and Linux hosting.

Most of the hosters are unclear on those two types of hosting.

They think that if they will host on linux Server than their visitors using windows operating system will not be able to see their site. But the truth is that your site is platform independant, means visitors on any operating system can surf your site very smoothly be it windows xp or windows 98 or windows 95 or windows vista or linux or mac or bsd or any other OS.

This applies for both windows as well as linux hosting.

Now the questions comes which hosting platform shall i choose ?

The answer for this is :

1 – Requirements – It all depends on your requirements. Most of the windows hosting provider will provide you support for scripting langauage like ASP and database like MsSql whereas most of the linux hosting providers will provide you support for scripting language like PHP and database like MySql.
So if you want to use ASP than choose windows server whereas if you want to use PHP than use linux server. If you don’t want to use any scripting language than you may use any of the hosting platform. Our preference is always linux hosting due to its extensive features and worldwide popularity.

You can use html, dhtml, javascript, flash, real audio, video, cgi, pop mail ids, ftp, frontpage etc on both servers.

2 – Budget – Linux hosting is always cheaper as compared to windows hosting coz most of the sofwtares used on linux servers are open source that is free whereas on windows server most of the softwares are paid and need to be licensed by Microsoft.