How to select a cheap web hosting provider.
Selecting your web host can be a daunting task if you have no experience with hosting a web site. And so you'll find that many web masters do happily pay US$10 or more for a low budget web hosting package that other reliable cheap web hosting providers offer for no more than US$5.00. The only way to know that you are being overcharged is to try other cheap hosting providers with low budget plans, but that may turn out to be just too much of an effort. Hence, many web masters pay more than is needed because they are afraid that cheap web hosting will not be reliable.
My family went through a phase that they were looking for the cheapest web hosting provider that would still offer reliable web hosting and good support. While we encountered many problems, we just considered this to be a learning experience. At least we now have a few cheap reliable web hosting providers that we can choose from when we set up a new web site, although some times we still try a new cheap web hosting provider if we get good feedback from other web masters.
Selecting your low cost web host.
When I look at cheap web hosting providers only a few features are really important: