Why Cheap Web Hostings are Bad for your Website?

Why Cheap Web Hostings are Bad for your Website?

Why Cheap Web Hostings are Bad for Your Website

The webmasters have a wide range of choices regarding the web hosting plans. The factors such as the Customer Care Service, Special Features, Server Backup, Cost, Safety and Security from both viruses and hackers, and respective Control Panel are taken into consideration before opting for any hosting plan. Often, the site owners, especially a newbie, fall prey to the low cost web hosting plans and end up with the failure of site’s performance in some or the other way! It largely affects commercial and business sites.

Cheap Web Hostings

Note that, not all the cheap web hostings are bad for all the websites. Some of the web hosts asking for low fees are best suitable for the personal sites. However, you must check out the websites that have already chosen the particular web host you are looking for. You will then get to know how successfully the features; it mentions and promises to give, are provided by the respective company.

The very basic reason as to why this question is being raised is the harm caused to the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) process of your sites due to cheap web hostings plans. How? Take a look:

The Drawback of Cheap Shared Hosting

This can be considered as the biggest drawback of cheap shared hosting plan. You very well know that in the shared hosting plans, the website’s data is stored on the shared server, i.e. the server that stores other sites’ data too, who chose this particular plan, and IP address. You never know the other websites sharing the server space along with yours come out to be a spam. Consequently, your site may also be reported as a spam and that will be awful. Also, note that, if any other website on the shared server receives huge traffic, it may be kind of a loss to the other sites on the same server, since there are chances of getting their performance affected.So, before you select a cheap shared hosting plan, it is recommended to enquire about the sites sharing the server or its far more better not to take risk by choosing this cheap plan.

Non-Satisfactory Service

Generally, the web hosts company offering cheap plans are the newcomers in the web hosting market. They tend to apply the strategy of cheap plans in order to attract more and more customers to have a successful start up. These are unaware about the experience of the company and hence, suffer problems with the customer care services. Due to lack of experience, company sometimes fails in the quality of service they must intend to provide, as per the expectations of their clients. Another interesting part is the less revenue of cheap web hosts. As the plans are of low rates, their earning isn’t much high and thus, they can’t afford to spend plenty on the service issues. The web servers are not monitored and examined periodically and thus, the chances of hacking the site increases. Hence, not only the customer care, but, also the safety and security service issues are undoubtedly compromised.

Slow Page Loading

When you take a glance over the websites using cheap host plans, you will experience slow loading of the web pages. Google considers the website loading time and accordingly assigns position in its SERP. This will definitely affect your ranking. It mainly causes since you are unaware about the speed of loading web pages as, usually, the provided bandwidth is mentioned as unlimited. Moreover, it annoys the visitors and they don’t prefer to visit or interact with it again! Hence, all this negatively affects your SEO ranking.

Less Traffic Support

The cheap web hosts even promise you unlimited disk space. It may so happen that, if your site receives traffic in high amount, the host may not be capable to handle the hike in visits and ultimately makes you to upgrade to other hosting plan. Hence, instead of switching to other host plan, later, which supports huge traffic, it’s better not to opt for cheap plans by simply getting fooled by their defined terms, such as the aforementioned “unlimited” features. You need to keep a keen eye at its limitations. You have no way to extend the disk space or the bandwidth limit.

Server Downtime

‘Server could not find the requested web page’; this is what you come across when the server is down. As per the survey, the shared hosting offering low cost plans give negative result about the server downtime. Thus, a wrong impression is generated in the visitor’s mind and they assume this same state of your site the next time they surf the web world.

The concluding part just suggests choosing a web host that will provide SEO aid for your site. This will not only bring a hike in your site traffic, but also simultaneously improve your site ranking. Remember, things might turn costly for choosing the cheapest!

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Ryan Jacob

Ryan Jacob has 9 years of rich experience in Integrated Marketing Communications and Server Management. He has lead teams of professionals in his career and built online and offline reputation of organizations.

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