Support
Do not join a host without testing out their support first. The best way to test out a hosts support is calling in. Youll be surprised how many hosts with an 800 number never answer their phones, or have long hold times.
E-mailing a hosting company or submitting a ticket to their sales department is not the way to test a host! Many of the companies have incredible response times when contacting their sales department, very few have good times when contacting support. After all they dont make money by supporting you. They only make money by selling to you.
Scam Plans
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If it sounds too good too be true it usually is! All hosts have the same basic limitations when it comes to server resources and specs. There is no magic server that has a never ending supply of RAM and CPU.
If a host ever claims to give unlimited space or bandwidth DO NOT JOIN THEM. The thing to remember is that the average web site uses about 50 Megs space and less then 1 gig bandwidth a month.
So what hosting companies do is they lie! They make up scam plans with tons of space and bandwidth for around $8 bucks a month. Its a numbers game... Only one or two of every 100 people that signup on the plan are going to use all the bandwidth advertised. So what do they do? They usually terminate the sites that use it saying your site is using too many resources. They arent lying about the resource usage. ITS the truth! Most people dont realize that bandwidth and space used have nothing to do with the server resources being used.
Resource usage has to do with the amount of CPU and RAM a site uses. If a site uses a lot of bandwidth they arent kicked for using their bandwidth they are kicked for using up most of the servers cpu and ram. Another thing to remember is that the cheaper the plan is, and the more space / bandwidth included the more sites per server the host will have to pack in to make their money back.
So the lesson here is dont shop for a host based on their plans! You should shop based on recommendations and experience!
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About Paying Yearly
Another thing youll notice is that most of these incredible scam plans force you to pay for a year up front to get the good pricing.
Why would a hosting company care if you pay monthly or yearly? After all if youre happy with them youre going to end up staying much longer than a year.
Merchant fees arent that much so why? Its because most have horrible support, slow servers, or even tons of downtime. If you were paying month to month youre not going to stick around, but if you paid for a year up front what are you going to do? You wont get your money back so you have no choice but to stay with them.
ONLY PAY MONTHLY! We have one plan that requires a year payment up front (hatchling) why? Because most hosts advertise a low monthly fee if paid yearly and a much higher price if monthly. We still need to be competitive so we made one plan showing this option. We would however prefer you sign up for a monthly plan.
Remember paying yearly to anyone is always a bad idea, but the choice is yours. We would do everything in our power to honor the year but anything can happen to anyone. The state of Texas where our servers are located could be wiped off the face of the earth. If this happened we would most likely be out of business instantly and have no way to honor your payment.
All were saying is no matter how good a company is anything can come up, and you could lose your upfront payment.
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