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5 reasons why cheap hosting sucks
Cheap hosting does not always suck, but unfortunately in most of my experience it does. There’re tons of reasons why a cheap hosting is not recommended for serious webmaster and here are couple of the common ones...
Overselling hosting resources - a recipee for disaster.
The battle for new customers has turned web hosting companies into warriors furiously abusing the well known trick of overselling hosting resources. But exploiting this technique has many dangers. Unfortunately the tendances of the market are leading to self destruction since overselling has a limit too.
Overselling bandwidth
Overselling disk space is a risky business, so most hosting companies try to do it responsibly. The situation could turn into a disaster when everyone decides to use all of the disk space they have purchased. However, overselling bandwidth is a different story.
All about overselling
Overselling is a well known marketing trick that most web hosting companies are using to sell more hosting accounts. It basically means to sell beyond the limits of delivery. In other words - selling something they don't have. Let's have an example:
The myth of "unlimited"
Recently many hosting companies started offering "unlimited" packages providing unlimited amount of disk space and bandwidth/monthly transfer. We will try to have this explained in this article and make it clear why this is just not possible. "Unlimited" is just an advertising trick.
How to avoid being cheated
Web hosting companies these days offer more and more disk space and bandwidth to attract customers. But this "war" for new customers has turned into a disaster where hosting companies forgot what is possible and what isn't. So unbelievable offers appeared on the market seeking for easy targets, such as newbie webmasters.
The myth of 99.9% uptime
Statistics advertised by hosting companies concerning their uptime don't lie, but they just don't tell the whole truth. Imagine your chosen hosting company advertises 99.9% uptime. This makes no more than 40 minutes of downtime for the past month. But what they are not telling you is when did that downtime occur.
Cheap hosting does not always suck, but unfortunately in most of my experience it does. There’re tons of reasons why a cheap hosting is not recommended for serious webmaster and here are couple of the common ones...
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Overselling hosting resources - a recipee for disaster.
The battle for new customers has turned web hosting companies into warriors furiously abusing the well known trick of overselling hosting resources. But exploiting this technique has many dangers. Unfortunately the tendances of the market are leading to self destruction since overselling has a limit too.
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Overselling bandwidth
Overselling disk space is a risky business, so most hosting companies try to do it responsibly. The situation could turn into a disaster when everyone decides to use all of the disk space they have purchased. However, overselling bandwidth is a different story.
| |
All about overselling
Overselling is a well known marketing trick that most web hosting companies are using to sell more hosting accounts. It basically means to sell beyond the limits of delivery. In other words - selling something they don't have. Let's have an example:
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The myth of "unlimited"
Recently many hosting companies started offering "unlimited" packages providing unlimited amount of disk space and bandwidth/monthly transfer. We will try to have this explained in this article and make it clear why this is just not possible. "Unlimited" is just an advertising trick.
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How to avoid being cheated
Web hosting companies these days offer more and more disk space and bandwidth to attract customers. But this "war" for new customers has turned into a disaster where hosting companies forgot what is possible and what isn't. So unbelievable offers appeared on the market seeking for easy targets, such as newbie webmasters.
| |
The myth of 99.9% uptime
Statistics advertised by hosting companies concerning their uptime don't lie, but they just don't tell the whole truth. Imagine your chosen hosting company advertises 99.9% uptime. This makes no more than 40 minutes of downtime for the past month. But what they are not telling you is when did that downtime occur.
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