Cheap Web Hosting Recommendations

One of the more common questions I get asked is “Who should I get to host my site?”

It’s a good question – there are a ton of hosts out there all promising the world. Some hosts are great, some are absolute rubbish and it’s sometimes hard to tell them apart.

A poor host can cost your business a ton of money in a variety of ways:

• no backups = big trouble if the server crashes
• no support = big trouble when you need something fixed
• slow support = big trouble because you need your site up and working now….not in 3 days

Over the years I’ve used probably 50 different web hosting companies and in that time you get to learn a few tricks of the trade.

Let’s take a look at the tricks and a couple of recommendations for terrific hosts.

The Inside Information

Let’s start off with a bit of insider information.

Two main things you need to be aware of:

1. There are what I call “Ignorance Hosts”

These are the type of hosts who charge absolute top dollar for not much space, not much bandwidth and not much service.

These guys simply rely on their customers not understanding what options are really available to them.

2. Many ‘hosting companies’ are simply hosting resellers

That is, they buy a big chunk of space and bandwidth at wholesale prices and sell off the space and bandwidth in little bits at retail prices and pocket the difference.

There’s nothing wrong with that of course.

Many web developers, including us, do this.

It equates to terrific control and ease of work for us as the web developers, makes us a little extra profit to keep our businesses going and the customer gets a great service because we take care of all the technical issues that arise.

With the above in mind, I’d like to recommend 2 hosting services for you:

Number 1 Cheap Web Host Recommendation

Blue Host has what I consider the 3 essentials of a great host:

1. Great hosting – tons of space, tons of bandwidth and heaps of features
2. Great support – super quick, reliable and effective. This is critical
3. Great price – in my experience you simply won’t get better value for money

These are the ones we recommend if you have a good web site and currently have a lot of visitors or expect a lot of web visitors in the future.

At a measly $6.95 per m onth you get unbelievable value for money.

We use Blue Host for sites that we expect will use a ton of multimedia – video, audio and the like.

Click here to sign up for Blue Host now.

Number 2 Cheap Web Host Recommendation

Now this second host is a little different to Blue Host in that we use these guys for our reseller hosting.

That is, we buy a Reseller Hosting package from them and onsell hosting to our clients.

You see, with Hostgator we sign up for a Reseller Plan starting from $24.95 US per month.

For that we get an amazing amount of space, bandwidth and features including:

• 24 gb of disk space
• 250 gb of bandwidth
• Unlimited domains on the account
• Much, much more

Perfect For Web Developers Reselling Hosting

I highly recommend Hostgator for those with absolutely massive sites or for web developers looking to provide hosting services for their clients.

We host up to 60 clients (you can host more if you want) on a Hostgator Reseller Account – the $24.95 per month deal – and the speed and service is exceptional.

Web Hosting – Superb Value

Whilst both of the above are cheap web hosting services, the great price in no way means lower service. The service we’ve received from both has been exceptional.

That’s not just once or twice – that’s with hundreds of sites over a number of years.

Hope that helps you find a solid cheap web hosting service – like I said, we use these 2 and they’re absolutely exceptional.

Cheers

Brendon

P.S: Check out a couple of other product reviews here.
P.P.S: If you’d like us to host your site it is $220 + GST (Australian clients pay this) pa. For that we take care of the set up, configuring and getting your site going.