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Cheap Web Hosting - Pain or Pleasure?

Why is cheap web hosting so cheap? What do you sacrifice to have this lower price? Nearly all cheap web hosting options are shared webhosting. This fact alone means that you will sacrifice a number of options in terms of reliability, speed and security.

Cheap, shared web hosting is generally placed on a server with many other users who have purchased the same package. Therefore if one of the other users does anything with their hosting that modifies the operation of the server like creating a faulty CRON job that continuously pulls resources away from the server, your site(s) and everyone elses will be effected by it. This may mean that your website could be down for an unknown amount of time due to the ignorance of a single user. Since there are often dozens of users on a single shared server, the odds of a possible crash are against you.

Sharing a web hosting server also means sharing the overall bandwidth available to the server. If a user hosts a high traffic site, and/or a website that hosts a lot of video or flash that takes a long time to load, your website will suffer as a result. If it was your intention to host one of these sites yourself, you may not want to do it on shared web hosting.

If one of the users that shares your server has security flaws within their site there is a chance that any damage that may be done will be done to the entire server, not any of that user's individual sites. The resulting crashes and limited bandwidth will be suffered by your site(s) as well.

Cheap web hosting is a great option if your intention is to host small content based sites and you are not worried about possible downtime or slow loading times. Just keep in mind that cheap webhosting is not always synonymous with affordable web hosting.

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