When setting up a website for the first time it is understandable many people just go for the cheapest web hosting they can find, raterh the going for the best web hosting possible. This can be ok early on, but long-term it can actually cost your more money than just going for the best hosting package in the first place!

Here are 6 reasons why:

• Cheap hosts usually have more downtime - When your website isn’t online visitors obviously can’t visit it, this will instantly lose you money from lost advertising. These visitors could also have become loyal users of your site so the long-term loss is much more significant. It isn’t confidence boosting knowing your website could be offline at any time.
• Cheap web hosts often oversell servers - In order to still make money cheap hosts often overload their servers. If overselling at the host gets out of control the CPU & RAM become overloaded and your website will be down! If this happens you once again lose customers and potential return visitors.
• Poor customer service - Once again the lack of revenue means these sorts of hosts have to scrimp on customer service, they don’t have the money to pay qualified techies who can solve your problems. Getting very quick answers from your host is vitally important, if you have made an error on your site which you can’t sort out you need your hosts help, and quick!
• Slow website performance annoys visitors - Users hate slow websites and quickly reach for the big red X in the corner of their screen. Cheap web hosts often provide slower servers (for various reasons), if your visitors are quickly retreating from your website once again you lose revenue and potential loyal users.
• Less customer features provided by host - Some hosts now provide special features for members built into your members area, unsurprisingly these are provided by the hosts who don’t charge a few cents per month for hosting! Less features mean less help for your website and ultimately the chance of a lower level of success or a much slower path to success.
• Moving the website once it expands to a new host - As your website grows there is no doubt you will need to move it to a bigger hosting package, if you have a crappy little cheap host provider you are going to need to move it someone else, this virtually never goes without a hitch. Save yourself the time and pain of moving your website by getting a good host in the first place.

If you are serious about your website then for the sake of $4 or $5 per month you should get yourself some proper hosting which will help your website become a success!