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Cheap Webhosting - Pain or Pleasure?

What is it about cheap web hosting that makes it so cheap? What sacrifice do you make to get a lower price Almost all cheap web hosting packages are shared webhosting. This fact alone means that you are sacrificing several options in terms of reliability, security and speed.

Users who purchase cheap, shared hosting packages are lumped together on the same server. Therefore when any of the other users does anything with their hosting that modifies the operation of your server like creating an incorrectly programmed CRON job that continues to pull resources away from the server, your site(s) will be effected by it. This could mean that your website(s) could be down for an undetermined amount of time because of the negligence of a single user. Since there could be dozens of users sharing hosting on one server the odds are against you when it comes to possible crashes.

Sharing web hosting with a number of other users also means that your speed will be greatly diminished as you are sharing the overall bandwidth with every other user. If one of the other users hosts a high traffic site, and/or a website that contains a lot of video or flash that takes a long time to load, your website will suffer the consequences. If it was your intention to host one of these sites yourself, you will 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 their sites alone. The resulting limited bandwidth and crashes will be suffered by your site(s) as well.

Cheap web hosting is an alright option if your plan is to host small content based sites and slow loading or downtimes will not affect your plans. Just keep in mind that cheap webhosting is not always synonymous with affordable web hosting.

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