Compare The Best Under $5.00 Cheap Web Hosting Services

By AM | Mar 22, 2010 | 4,268 views

I’ve been there! Comparing web hosts and trying to determine the best choice for my website… what a massive headache. Being entirely new to the Internet industry I depended on experts , but every person I asked mentioned some new angle and managed to multiply, as opposed to lessen, my problems. Limited or unlimited bandwidth and emails? A business or basic plan? Its been over a year now and learning through hard experiences, which I would wish upon no one, I have learnt that:
an extra dollar a month isn’t really worth saving when it comes to 99.9% up time versus very pi**ed off customers.

it is safer to choose a hosting company that tens of thousands of people trust their domains to (not a few thousand).

be suspicious of too many free services for an unusually low price (I mean $3.00 or below).

unless you have a successful business, don’t subscribe to that dedicated server just yet. Take some time to examine terms like ‘bandwidth’ and ‘disk space’ for a web host and match it with your needs.

don’t judge a web host by the name. Some of the largest, most successful and professional web hosts have unusual names (wait till you study the list below).

get an experienced professional website developer and designer. Utilize a reasonably priced service on the web. Trust me, it can save you a lot of time.

spend time focusing on building a brand name, traffic and lots of business. NOTHING ELSE.

Now that I’m done with my sermon, I’d like to present below an easy comparison of the best, most affordable hosting services around. The sites mentioned are popular globally including countries like USA, UK, New Zealand, Indonesia, Australia, Pakistan, India, South Africa, Canada, Philippines, Thailand, Romania, Malaysia and Mexico.

So why have I incorporated Google’s page rank and Alexa’s traffic rank in the comparison? For those of you who who are unaware of either metric (something that will change astronomically once you start your own web business soon) these statistics represent a site’s importance, popularity and the number of visitors the website receives.

Keep in mind that the higher Google’s Page Rank the more important the site in Google’s eyes (8 being better than 4) and the lower Alexa’s traffic rank, the more visitors it receives (100 would mean that Alexa ranks the website as 100th out of the millions of websites out there and is a better score than say 10,000). A great Google and Alexa rank show that the website receives hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of visitors every month.

And to make life easier, I am also including a simple online For-Ex calculator to help convert to the currency of your choice while you compare the choices. Good luck and happy hunting!!