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If you do any kind of business on the Internet, or even if you just maintain a personal or hobby site, you’re going to want decent web hosting. It’s a fine balancing act between paying for high reliability and features and, well, not paying so much that you end up being unable to afford hosting at all!
I’ve always thought that the best way of finding a good host is by word of mouth: the host I use for this site is one I was introduced to by a friend. Now that I think of it, the hosts I used for my previous sites too were also ones I was told about by people I trust.
What if you don’t have anyone who can give you a reliable recommendation though? Or what if all you’re getting from your friends is, “Don’t use my host, they’re terrible”?
4CheapWebHosting profiles over four hundred Cheap Web Hosting packages, ranging from 99 cents (US) per month to well over a hundred dollars. If you don’t want to incur foreign transaction fees you can always use the power search to find a host that operates in your local currency (and who will most likely be located in your own country too).
What about that balancing act between price and quality though? Each hosting package has a rating based on “value”. Value is assigned to each host on a sort of PageRank scale… a host is given a base value depending on the number of people linking to it, and then a further rating depending on the features offered in each particular package. While this means every host is treated the same, it would be nice to see some way for users to rate their own host depending on their experiences. Without that feature, I would be tempted to see 4cheapwebhosting as a starting point when searching for a host, rather than a definitive review site. In other words, I’d still want to see some actual user reviews before going with my chosen host.
One more annoyance is that there are a fair few spelling mistakes, or misuses of words (for instance, “Less then $20″ instead of less than). That doesn’t affect the validity of the data, obviously, but it does affect the professional image of the site.
Having said all that, this is a good place to start when looking for a web host. It’ll give you the lay of the land as to some of what’s available, an idea of prices and, with the value rating, an at-a-glance idea of which hosts are cheap but dodgy and which are actually good value for money. I would still Google some customer reviews once you’ve chosen a package, but as far as making that initial choice goes, 4CheapWebHosting is as good a help as any.
Disclosure: I will receive financial payment for posting this article. Please be aware that I will never accept offers of paid posts where I am required only to give a positive review – objectivity is important to me and you can be sure that what I write, even in paid posts, is what I really think.
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