Web Hosting List has collected cheap web hosting plans from around the net and collected them into an easy to review list. Depending on how familiar you are with discount hosting you will also want to take the time to read our guides below. Our cheap web hosting guides can save you a lot of time and money. They will also help you understand what you might expect from a discount provider versus a business oriented provider.

What is the Right Price for Cheap Web Hosting?
When considering discount web hosting you need to know how to spot plans that are simply too good to be true. For example, a cheap hosting red flag is the word “Unlimited”. As we all know, there is no such thing as unlimited and a company that advertises it may be hiding something else. Take a little extra time with that hosting provider – they may be perfectly fine and they may not be.

With that being said, you should typically find a good non business web hosting account in the range of 7 to 10 dollars per month. Cheap web hosting for businesses will usually come in at about 10 to 20 dollars per month. The difference is almost always in the support level and in the overall reliability of the hosting platform.

Choosing a Cheap Web Hosting Provider that values your business
There are literally thousands of hosting providers that offer discount hosting services. Many of them are behemoth companies with hundreds of thousands of clients and many more only service a few hundred cheap web hosting clients. The problem you will run into with a huge provider is they will have no investment in you as an individual client. The small cheap host will have a personal investment in you as a client but will not have the resources to properly support you.

The best cheap web hosting is typically from the medium sized provider. Look for a company that has more than a thousand clients and less than about forty thousand. You will then deal with several of the same people for support and still have round the clock help.

Is Cheap Web Hosting right for me?
This is probably the most important question you can ask yourself about a discount hosting choice. If you depend on your site for your business or your livelihood, the answer is no. You should be buying a business web hosting account with top support, guaranteed uptime, and a provider that will be involved with you at any point. You should not buy a cheap web hosting plan if the monetary cost of being down for 1 day out of a year is more than $20. Go to the business hosting plan.

Cheap web hosting is right for you if you are not running a business and do not depend on the site for your livelihood. Showing pictures of your family outing, new baby, or hobbies is perfect for a discount hosting account. If you are running a small business on the side and just need basic email services then a cheap hosting plan should be fine, but a couple extra dollars gets better support.

Searching for a Reliable Cheap Web Hosting Provider
The most difficult task ahead of you is sorting through the numerous medium sized affordable hosting providers out there today. A couple key items to look for when reviewing your potential cheap web host:

Reliable Uptime – Check with some of the uptime tracking web sites out there – Click Here
Competent Support Staff – Try their tech support prior to purchasing the hosting plan
Helpful Sales Staff – Ask them what type of account they recommend and see if they only try to get you to purchase the top end package.

Cheap Web Hosting Outlook
Driven by lower costs for the web hosting provider and increased competition, cheap web hosting has exploded on the net in the last 4 years. The cost of commercial web hosting servers has dropped dramatically. For example, in 2000, a web server running on a $20,000 Sun machine could handle 600 to 800 hosting accounts. Now those same accounts (even adjusted for growth in disk usage and general popularity of hosting) can be hosted on a $4000 discount web hosting machine from Dell.

The cost of carrying the data on the Internet itself (bandwidth/data transfer) has also fallen dramatically. It is not unusual to see a cheap web hosting provider offering 100 GB of transfer today for about 1000% less then in 2000. The overcapacity built out during the Internet bubble has provided a great backbone for an incredibly cheap price.