Web Hosting Cost Analysis
By: john.z.stephen | Posted: 18th May 2009
A lot of people tend to spend a lot of time to compare the price and features of different web hosting to find a cheapest one. But do you feel a web hosting used you $3.95/month is a cheap one? Today, we will talk about the 3 key areas you should know about your web hosting so that you can make better decision when looking for a web host.
In general, the cost of web hosting comes from 3 areas::
1) Time to look for a web hosting
This is the part of cost you might not calculate for web hosting and actually it's quite high. A lot of people spend hours and hours to look for a perfect solution. But there is really nothing perfect, you need to balance your time and your cost to purchase a hosting. Usually, our suggestion on it is that once you know a hosting fit your all requirement from feature to support, and the price is within your budget, you should make a decision.
2) Fee charged by web hosting vendor.
People are usually very sensitive to the money have paid out, and very care about the price of web hosting, but if you consider your time cost, you will find the hosting price actually doesn't occupy a lot in your total cost. For most personal web site, blog, or small home business web site, the price of a web hosting is usually lower than $10/month, and you even can get a very nice one be as low as $3.95/month (such as bluehost.com, a leading web hosting company in the industry, will allow you to get its service with a price of $3.95/month by using a promotion link). So, from above you will know that your regular web hosting cost from vendor is actually not big deal, in most case, it's less than the cost of a lunch.
3) Potential maintenance cost for your web host
After setting up a web site, you will need to spend some effort to make sure the whole hosting environment works well, and sometimes you even need to work with your hosting service provider on your needs. Your business will be risk if the vendor cannot provide you with the appropriate and timely support and give you a feeling of hopeless. And then you might start looking for another web hosting service provider and transfer all your web site to the new place. During it, you might lost the sale or the reputation of your business due to the down of your site, and you also have to spend a lot of time to find a better. Consider the potential huge cost in this one, when finding a web hosting, you should only work with the reliable web hosting provider to put your business in safe.
A easy-to-use control panel will reduce your maintenance cost a lot. There are some routine tasks you might want to do your site, such as check the traffic, create email, etc. If all those are done by shell, it might need some technical knowledge to maintenance a site, but if well-designed control panel, such as cPanel will make this task very easily and save you huge time.
According to my consult experience in the past few year, I feel that a beginner tends to too care about the fee charged by the web hosting vendor, and forget the other two. This is very danger as analyzed in above, a cheap but not reliable web hosting will bring risk to your business.
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