Avoid Web Hosting Scams

If you are in the process of selecting a web hosting company for your business website, you need protect yourself against the numerous web hosting scams out there.

Be sure to deal only with a reputable hosting service. When you get your website hosted by a well known hosting company, you can be sure of reliable hosting. Web hosting is a highly competitive industry and only companies that offer reliable services will earn top marks from customers and rating agencies. It requires years of consistent effort to form and maintain a strong reputation, so any company that has managed to earn a good reputation and popularity is not likely to risk jeopardizing it by providing poor quality service.

Be sure you own your domain name. Some companies offer hosting service that includes domain registration, but the companies register the domain names in their own names. In such cases you do not really own your domain. You will end up losing your domain if you change your hosting service provider. Not many business owners are aware of such scams. So the next time you get some cheap hosting offers, be sure to check who’s name     the domain will be registered under.

Does the low cost last? Some companies offer cheap unlimited hosting that includes various add-ons for free. Be sure to check whether such offers are just for a limited period or for the entire period for which your website is registered with them. Sometimes, you will get low cost offers just for the first three months, then your credit cards will be billed automatically after the offer period. Remember to read the fine print because most important clauses of the offers are included under fine print.

As simple way to be find cheap, reliable hosting is to read BBB ratings and compare customer reviews of the best cheap hosting services.

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6 Responses to “Avoid Web Hosting Scams”

  1. Andrew Wooger says on November 26th, 2009 at 7:27 am :

    Great article that includes really useful advices on how to select a good hosting company.

  2. Savannah Scott says on May 24th, 2010 at 7:37 pm :

    Does anyone know of a cheap but reliable web hosting company?~-*

  3. Jose Perez says on August 2nd, 2010 at 8:10 am :

    there are many webhosting companies these days and most of them are overselling their products:“

  4. Anxiety Depression  says on October 13th, 2010 at 10:57 pm :

    the best webhosting provider should also provide 24 hour support and 99.99% uptime,”*

  5. Circuit Breaker : says on October 25th, 2010 at 8:38 am :

    when it comes to webhosting, try selecting a webhost with Directadmin rather than Webmin control panel**`

  6. managedvps says on May 4th, 2011 at 6:31 am :

    Performance is also much better because you have your own dedicated resources. This should lead to faster load times of your sites. Normally your server has a guaranteed amount of RAM available for your use. However, your server also has access to Burstable RAM. This is made available to your server whenever you are experiencing an increase of traffic over your guaranteed amounts. This is useful for handling unexpected, but temporary traffic surges.

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