Many website hosting companies still offer an “unlimited” plan to draw in new clients, an limit-less hosting plan for a couple of buck?! Shut up and take my money you say!, well hold on to your couple of bucks because it may be something you regret doing.
Website playground for newbies
Many web creators start with a basic hosting plan for creating their first websites, for testing the system and learning by creating multiple websites and experimenting with different plugins, code and systems that you can install on the server. An unlimited plan that let’s you build as many websites as you want, with an an unlimited amount of traffic, sounds like a dream. But that’s not the only things you need to consider when choosing a hosting provider.
What they don’t tell you when they sell you the couple-bucks plan
The price will go up after the first year, sometimes the first year will be much cheaper than the next. Having to pay a few times over what you paid the year before could make your blood boil and you’ll eventually give in and pay or transfer your websites elsewhere. To avoid this you can – for once – read the small letters when purchasing the hosting. And the second thing you can do is choose a hosting provider that doesn’t surge the prices after the first year, which will mostly cost more than a few bucks for the first year, but with no surprises later on – which is much more crucial since you want your websites to be hosted for years and decades to come.
While you’re “not limited” by some aspects of the web hosting, like the amount of websites you can create, you are in fact very limited by the resources the servers provide your websites, and when exceeding those limits your websites might crash or even be-shut-down by the hosting provider, or become really slow.
Choosing the right hosting provider for your current needs
If you only need to play around with websites, and they won’t get much traffic mostly, you can go for the low-dollar hosting providers, most of them are “alright”, but many nowadays cave in because of the resources a modern site needs and the low-budget plan need to be updated with resources of they won’t hold a website built with a page builder or one that has a lot of images, videos and animations.
A web shop or a dynamic website will also suffer from a low-cost website hosting. Simple website, and perhaps most websites in the far past, were “static”, they didn’t have to communicate instantly with the servers on every user click. Nowadays with AJAX and dynamic filters and conditions you might use on a modern website require a lot of resources and can’t work as a static webpage as before.
No Bueno For Online Store Websites
If you’re building a shopping website you’ll really have to consider NOT taking the low-cost hosting because of what stated above, you will eventually lose money just because you didn’t want to go the extra mile. Modern shops should be quick as lightening for the modern online shopping to not leave as soon as he enters.
Bottom Line
Don’t hurry with choosing the hosting provider by the price tag, try to consider other aspects and user experiences before you commit. But keep in mind that you can always transfer to another hosting provider with ease, so if a hosting provider gives you trouble, leave them on the double.