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Cheap Website Hosting
- $7.95 / month
Cheap hosting plan:
- 1500,000 MB of storage
- 15000 GB of transfer
- e-Commerce Software
- CGI, Ruby, Perl
- $30 Google AdWords
Included: Free Domain

If you ever Google’d for web-hosting, you will come accross many such too good to be true offers. Lets try to analyze them:

Yearly expenditure = 7.95 x 12= 95.4 USD (Thus, the host earns 95.4 USD from your account yearly)

Google Adwords coupon = 30 USD. That leaves 65.4 USD with your host

One domain(.com, .net, .org) = 9 USD. That leaves 56.4 USD with your host.

Others like ecommerce software, perl, cgi, PHP, MySQL, etc. open source products are free of cost.

So where is the THE catch? The catch is that any website that require so many GB’s of disk-space storage and monthly data transfer will also require considerable resources like CPU time and RAM that your host will send you a ‘Too big for a shared hosting package’ email and ask you to move your site to a VPS or dedicated server.

Apart from this, a site that requires 10 GB disk space and 10 TB monthly transfer will be such a popular one that they must opt for the security of a VPS or a dedicated server!

And above all this, it still leaves $ 56.4(less other shared expenses) with your webhost. Yes, you can argue for the ‘quality of customer support’. But a person who manages websites with GBs of disk-space and TBs of data-transfer already has such ample experience that he will rarely need to ask for support, except in serious issues.

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