If you search the internet for web hosting then you will find hundreds of different services offering some attractive deals. You will also come across many misleading claims. Some of these could be viewed as attempts to scam the unwary. Here are some of the most common.
Many customers will come across ‘free web hosting’ but this is never really the case as these services are almost never actually free. You may not actually have to pay money, but you will have to pay in other ways. Placing adverts on the website of customers is the main way that free web hosts make their money. This might sound like a reasonable exchange, but sometimes these ads can irritating to visitors to your website especially if they are not connected to your content in any way.
Web hosts that claim to offer unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage are usually exaggerating. This type of claim is just a gimmick that proves false after careful inspection of their service agreement.
You will also be bombarded by claims of 99 percent uptime which nine times out of ten will prove to be false. It is just so easy to make a claim like this without providing any evidence to back it up.
Some companies claim to offer a 30 day back money back guarantee, but it can be hard to actually get this money back unless you have paid by credit card.
Reviews are probably the best place to look for honest opinions of web hosts. Be careful though, because many of these services pay people to write positive reviews. These are usually easy to spot though because they are just so gushing in praise. The best way of finding out reliable reviews is to speak to people you know or join an online discussion group. And for further confirmation of a web hosts claims, make sure you fully read the service agreement to ensure the claims are here too.
Anybody thinking about venturing into internet marketing should have web hosting set up beforehand. Newbie’s can find, though, that the web hosting world can be rather confusing. An example of this could be coming across reseller web hosting or even linux web hosting when you are looking at different hosting plans.
