While most of us would easily go for freebies, you have to remember that such “free” options may actually offer more disincentives than benefits in the long run. You next best option is to find the most affordable web hosting solution that matches your requirements.

Off hand, you tend to look at the price and you may end up buying the hosting plan with the lowest tag price. This buying decision is akin to going for the cheapest house or car on sale. For the informed buyer, this is not the most propitious thing to do. This is also true with web hosting solutions, and it is not wise to pick the cheapest hosting solution.

If you have a hosting provider that offers the best of both worlds, then it is a strong signal that it is not the right option for you. You will encounter a hosting provider that offers hosting plans at rock bottom prices with incredible claims about global coverage, redundant cisco networks, 100% uptime, dedicated technical support staff and so on. Their offer becomes suspect considering the fact that they don’t generate enough revenues from hosting to support all these equipment, infrastructure and resources.

Your main concern when deciding on the right hosting provider is the speed, not the disk space or bandwidth, since you can get more of them when the situation calls for it. However, when it comes to server speed, this is not something that you can get with more money, and the situation becomes much worse especially when your server gets filled up. Thus, when a hosting provider offers you unlimited features with low price tags, then you can be sure that they need to fill up the their servers with a lot of sites in order to generate a decent profit, and this translates to slow speed which will never improve.