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Tricks to know when choosing a web hosting service provider
There are many tricks existing on the web hosting market. To choose a good web hosting company or plan and save your money, you have to know the tricks and check carefully with the company.
Here are some important tricks you have to know:
1. Free Domain Name ?
Many web hosting companies claim on website that there's 1 domain name included as free in their web hosting plan. But what does free mean?
- For some companies, it only free for the first year, you have to pay for the domain name start from the 2nd year.
- For some other companies, it's free for life time.
So check out carefully.
2. Domain privacy?
An big issue for domain name is Domain Privacy-- once you registered a domain name, all your personal information, including your name, family address, phone number and email address, would be exposed publicly and available to everyone on the Internet 24x7 (read the details).
You can avoid this by purchasing the Private Domain Registration service from domain name registrar or your web hosting company, which usually cost about $9.0 a year.
Some web hosting companies provide Private Domain Registration as free in their hosting plan, some companies charge you extra $9.0.
Check it out.
3. $3.95 per month ?
Some companies advertising their hosting plan only costs $3.95 per month. But when you check the details, you will find that you have to pay for 2 years, 3 years or even 5 years hosting fee at one time. For one year hosting, $7.95 per month ! Is that what you expected?
4. Unlimited ?
Some companies claim they have new unlimited web hosting plan come out-- unlimited space, unlimited network traffic-- that good, but, is that all you need? If you check carefully, you may notice that they might have a limit on database-- 1G limit ! If you host video, music, photos, 1G is definitely not big enough for you.
So check and think about it carefully.
5. Money back Gurantee
Almost all companies claim they provide 30-days Money back Gurantee, a few of them even provide "any time Money back Gurantee". If you are concern about your investment, take the "any time Money back Gurantee" plan.
6. Technical Support
Some web hosting companies only provide web and email tech support, while some other companes provide 24x7 live phone support. Are you satisfy with email support only? make sure you choose the right one.
7. Setup fee
Many companies claim their setup fee is free. If you check carefully, some of them only free for 2-year or 3-year web hosting plans. Do you want to be charged by extra setup fee for 1-year hosting plan?
There are some other tricks, but the aboves are the most important for you to know.
To save your time and your money, our team has selected and put together a list of cheap and reliable web hosting service providers, take a look here.
You may also want to know:
- Domain privacy
- How to start -- Start with registering a domain name, or purchasing a web hosting plan? Strat with free hosting or paid hosting?
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