By Jonathan Baldwin
In life, most things that are cheaper, suffer a lack of quality. Yet it is not always so, and indeed often expensive things are just repackaged garbage that is over-hyped. The web hosting industry is full of this as well.
Among the shared web hosting companies, Netfirms for example, seems to have no monthly billing options, and requires, for the cheapest web hosting that allows more than 1 domain, minimally at least $120 upfront for a year's worth of service, (which comes out to $9.95/mo). The only shorter billing cycle is for the more expensive plan and involves a $25 setup fee which to most is unacceptable. One might expect with such a stringent, inflexible pricing system and a comparatively high cost that it would be a great service loaded full of features. However, the mentioned $9.95 plan only allows a meager 30 MYSQL databases and only 10 FTP accounts. So if you've got 10 or more employees or friends you want to hand out uploading ability to, you'll have to upgrade to the $14.95 racket which still allows at most 50. Compare to any other
Whereas Hostgator seems to offer a comparative plan, that allows monthly billing at the same rate, or significantly cheaper if one purchases it in larger cycles. Yet Hostgator is hailed around the web as one of the best, if not the most, customer friendly web hosting service around. As for features, Hostgator has many, with "unlimited" bandwidth, hard disk space, pop3 accounts, sub domains, even unlimtied ftp accounts and MySQL accounts, which are both quite rare offerings as well. Hostgator also offers more advanced features such as various e-commerce features, such as Private SSL, and software such as Agora cart, osCommerce, ZenCart, and Cub cart. Hostgator also offers Fantastico and the instant creation of various Content Management Systems, blogging systems, forums and other important tools directly from their control panel.
While both services offer the ability to submit tickets on issues, as well as support phone numbers to call, which may or may not have a waiting time, Hostgator shines out above and beyond in that it has 24/7 online chat support. This holds a twofold benefit over the competition which doesn't have it, such as Netfirms. First, most of the time, due to the ability to multi-task, wait for written out questions, and answer them quickly, there is far less waiting time to get an answer to your web hosting problem. Secondly, this reduces significantly the burden on the telephone support system should a customer decide to call there, so in that respect Hostgator wins again.
The comparison between the two has shown a stark contrast, and surely has dispelled the myth and shown that sometimes, cheaper can be better.
Jonathan Baldwin runs a web hosting comparison website, where you can find this article, Cheap Web Hosting isn't Always Bad, and reviews of cheap web hosting services.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jonathan_Baldwin
In life, most things that are cheaper, suffer a lack of quality. Yet it is not always so, and indeed often expensive things are just repackaged garbage that is over-hyped. The web hosting industry is full of this as well.
Among the shared web hosting companies, Netfirms for example, seems to have no monthly billing options, and requires, for the cheapest web hosting that allows more than 1 domain, minimally at least $120 upfront for a year's worth of service, (which comes out to $9.95/mo). The only shorter billing cycle is for the more expensive plan and involves a $25 setup fee which to most is unacceptable. One might expect with such a stringent, inflexible pricing system and a comparatively high cost that it would be a great service loaded full of features. However, the mentioned $9.95 plan only allows a meager 30 MYSQL databases and only 10 FTP accounts. So if you've got 10 or more employees or friends you want to hand out uploading ability to, you'll have to upgrade to the $14.95 racket which still allows at most 50. Compare to any other
Whereas Hostgator seems to offer a comparative plan, that allows monthly billing at the same rate, or significantly cheaper if one purchases it in larger cycles. Yet Hostgator is hailed around the web as one of the best, if not the most, customer friendly web hosting service around. As for features, Hostgator has many, with "unlimited" bandwidth, hard disk space, pop3 accounts, sub domains, even unlimtied ftp accounts and MySQL accounts, which are both quite rare offerings as well. Hostgator also offers more advanced features such as various e-commerce features, such as Private SSL, and software such as Agora cart, osCommerce, ZenCart, and Cub cart. Hostgator also offers Fantastico and the instant creation of various Content Management Systems, blogging systems, forums and other important tools directly from their control panel.
While both services offer the ability to submit tickets on issues, as well as support phone numbers to call, which may or may not have a waiting time, Hostgator shines out above and beyond in that it has 24/7 online chat support. This holds a twofold benefit over the competition which doesn't have it, such as Netfirms. First, most of the time, due to the ability to multi-task, wait for written out questions, and answer them quickly, there is far less waiting time to get an answer to your web hosting problem. Secondly, this reduces significantly the burden on the telephone support system should a customer decide to call there, so in that respect Hostgator wins again.
The comparison between the two has shown a stark contrast, and surely has dispelled the myth and shown that sometimes, cheaper can be better.
Jonathan Baldwin runs a web hosting comparison website, where you can find this article, Cheap Web Hosting isn't Always Bad, and reviews of cheap web hosting services.
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jonathan_Baldwin
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