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We all look at the price first. We do it for different reasons, either we have a limited budget and look for something that will just suit us financially, or, we want to see if the company is reliable or not, judging by the price. When you see a webhost that gives away massive bandwidth for a few measly dollars per month, you have all the reasons in the world to assume that this is an oversold crap host that won’t be here tomorrow, will go offline or… whatever. On the other hand, looking at a cheekily overpriced hosting that gives away a measly space for nice and round sum, you tell yourself that this is obviously a respectable company that holds responsibility for the provided hosting service. (Or, like me, you just tell yourself that they are arrogant and inconsiderate towards the stingy (aka “budget”) users).

Either way, expensive hosting companies get less clients and automatically save themselves the hassle of checking up on the accounts, filtering spammers and hackers, as there is no better filter against abusers than a big price. If you want to get a temporarily account just to be able to send away spam mass mail, you wont sign up for 99$/month host, simply because your spammy intentions won’t cover the costs. This may also guarantee that your website won’t go down due to server dis stability – the less users, the smaller are the chances for  hacking attempts, downloads timeouts, etc.

Cheap hosts, naturally, have less staff, consequently technical support takes longer and some other issues you would start complaining. Instead of fighting with the support team you end up telling yourself that getting a website running for a few dollars a month, without ads and with reasonable uptime is already a great achievement, so be it, as long as it’s online and you didn’t get scammed.

Yes, when a host seems too cheap to be true, I’d strongly recommend to do a little checking on teh company and see how long were they online, what sites are they hosting, and ask in big forums if anyone would recommend them or not. Remember that hosting service is a very competitive area, new companies pop out like mushrooms after the rain and the worst part is – some of them wont be here after the next rain.

Bottom line is, price may not reflect the actual quality of the hosting service (as some artificially rise the price to adjust to “high quality standard”), but it will definitely refelect the qualiy of the company in customer’s eyes. The vast majority of buyers, both online and offline,  is “trained” to think that expensive equals to “good”, and cheap equals to “bad”. Nonetheless, not all the cheap hosting services are “bad”, some are just lowering the price to attract clients and plan to higher it later once they get some accounts hosted, other just managed to find a dead cheap reseller that allows them to provide low cost, or even free hosting while still putting something in their pocket. In case of expensive hosts though, the likelihood of scam is smaller, and the chances of getting a top level host with 24/7 support are bigger.

Well, you are the one who has to pay for it, so you decide…

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