Are You Overpaying for Web Hosting?

A lot of web designers will offer to handle your web hosting as a convenience to you (or themselves). This is fine but beware: some of them will attempt to fatten their pockets here at your expense. Do you have a simple brochure website with no streaming audio/video, databases, e-commerce or other advanced applications? Then, you shouldn’t be paying over $25/month for web hosting – and that’s even throwing in an extra $10-15/month for your web designer's trouble! Be careful not to go too cheap on web hosting, though – price isn’t everything when it comes to web hosting - reliability, support and options are most important. But even with a solid, reputable hosting company, a 300-page brochure website complete with Flash, dynamic menus, PDF downloads, and web-to-email forms costs next to nothing to host – usually under $10.

Find out more about what to look for in a web hosting company.