Cheap affiliate web hosting companies

So, you bought a domain name and wrote your sales copy and chosen your affiliate program and created your affiliate website. Now you need to host your affiliate website but you are working on a budget, there’s no money coming in! you need to host it cheaply but also know it’s with a good hosting company.

Finding decent web hosting can be a complete nightmare, no kidding, there is so much competition and so many “good deals” it’s a total nightmare.

Don’t believe all you see!

There are many hosting companies that offer unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains and a ton of other stuff for just $1.99 a month, it may sound good but trust me, you won’t be doing yourself any favours buying this crap!

Forget FREE hosting providers! All these free hosting providers need to pay for bandwidth somehow, and they do it by adding a ton of adverts to your sites content, plus you will have limited control of what you can do with your own website…..forget it…free hosting sucks!

These hosting providers that offer you unlimited bandwidth (there’s no such thing!) at a really low price are ripping you off, if it sounds too good to be true, it is!

The way cheap hosting works

OK, you find a really “good deal” and spend your $1.99 a month, and sit there all smug that you’ve found the best hosting company on the planet at the fraction of the price everyone else is paying, but did you know, you are sharing your bandwidth with a stack of other people? No? Oh heck..

You see, every domain name is actually an IP address, now what these hosting providers do is rent these IP’s off, to you, and to dozens of other people, now you can have your own dedicated IP address which means you are the ONLY person/website that has that IP, BUT these “good deals” are sharing your hosting IP, “so what?” you may think.

Well, you don’t know who you are sharing your hosting with do ya? you might have a great website, great content, and don’t do any spam or black hat techniques (dodgy stuff!), but the people you are sharing with might!

Also, and this is the more common problem, there is only so much bandwidth to go around, you may not ever use all your bandwidth in any given month, but the people you are sharing with might use over their monthly allowance, guess what happens? Your site goes down!! Yup, that’s right, you may be playing ball, but the people you are sharing with ain’t, it’s your business that suffers.

I really hope that you see my point, yes there is plenty of cheap hosting about, but you have to be careful, there’s “cheap”, and there’s “too good to be true cheap”.

I use Hostgator.com, others I would recommend hostnine.com and lunarpages.com, I have NEVER used the later two hosting providers but I have had good reports and seen alot of good reviews about them.