Ever heard the saying? enny-wise and Dollar-foolish?Well bargain priced website hosting may just represent the

perfect example of watching a jar full of pennies while

bucket loads of dollars fly out the window!When I launched my first website way back in the? ark ages?of 1997 I paid almost $150 a month in hosting and data

transfer charges. My web host watched how many files I uploaded like a hawk

and always seemed to send their hefty invoices earlier with

each passing month. I? obviously not the only one who felt that way, because

suddenly a whole industry of? argain?web hosts sprang up

all over the web. On the surface they all sound great, especially when you

think you can go from $150 a month down to $4. 95 a month!Five bucks a month sounds great, until you realize the

amount of data transfer (number of page views) and bandwidth

(the amount of data transfer your host allows in a 24 hour

period) you get for that low price severely limits your

ability to do business. This realization - along with a panic attack and a quick

lesson in how data transfer and bandwidth get calculated -

usually comes at the least convenient time. When you exceed your limits, a bargain host usually just

shuts you down with no warning. Most webmasters realize they?e made a mistake by choosing a

bargain host when their site suddenly gets shut down in the

middle of a big promotion because of a traffic spike.

Believe me, everything just stops!Here are a few bargain hosts that provide good service, but

you really need to really check the fine print for how much

bandwidth they allow. www. FeaturePrice. comFor $24. 95 a month you get to host up to six independent

websites with a single account. You get unlimited data

storage, unlimited email and a variety of other higher end

services, but their bandwidth policy seems hard to

understand. www. HostSave. comHost Save is another low price hosting company that delivers

a wide range of services for only $6. 95 per month. They

recently raised their allowable data transfer, but their

policy on how much bandwidth you can use at a given time

seems non-existent. www. DotEasy. comFor $25 DotEasy offers a domain name purchase along with one

year? hosting. Sounds incredible until you read the fine

print to discover they limit you to 1 Gigabyte of data

transfer a month. Not much data once you start getting

reasonable site traffic. The moral here? Either be prepared to have your business

shut down mid-stream if you get successful, or pay a few

extra bucks each month to ensure you have enough bandwidth

and data transfer. At a minimum, specifically ask and read the fine print about

the host? bandwidth and data transfer policies before it?

too late!?Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved - http://www. thenetreporter. comJim Edwards is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the

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