Annual Hosting-Why Pay Once a Year?

There is a new breed of smart consumers today. Whether they are shopping online for an electronics item or a new gadget they like to shop around to compare prices and get the service that is worth their money and time. When it comes to looking around for a web hosting provider it is a must to find the best one available. If they learn of an affordable web hosting provider who can charge them less than what the other web hosts ask for, and yet provide them a good web hosting solution they will likely grab this chance with both hands.

Web hosting is the basis of all web sites.  You can't have a domain without a hosting plan. It helps you survive the internet business world. Subscribing to a once a year annual host provider is wiser since they charge much less than those who offer monthly charges. Some yearly plans can be paid through monthly payments.  The danger lies in being tied down to a yearly plan when you don’t like the service that your web host provides.

Affordable web hosting is different from cheap web hosting. They may charge a little higher but the best part is that they are charge with fewer fees in addition to the regular monthly payments that they need to make. Cheap website hosting may offer themselves as cheaper than most web host providers, but ultimately they do have limited resources to offer their clients such as barely no customer service or technical support.

 If ever the consumer decides to add a domain name the cost that they offer will be less than the one offered by domain registration service providers. Some other benefits that this affordable web hosting provider offers include free plugins, database or y basic customer management software and web publishing software such as WordPress. They also provide easy template based web page creation services to help the customer get started.  In addition to this they can provide good customer service and technical support that are available 24/7.

A good web hosting provider gives ready to apply website templates, website builder, search traffic builder, secure billing systems, video tutorials that helps you with your way around your site, mail setup and an easy to understand control panel to make you more efficent.  A good website host should have the following:

    •    Reliability and dedicated web server with 99.99 uptime connectivity. Some web host providers offer discounts if they fall below this percentage to assure their consumers that they mean business.
    •    Data transfer/ Bandwidth. Look for details on how much traffic your package allows you since you may not be aware that web site hosts can charge an exorbitant fee if you exceed their allowable bandwidth.
    •    Disk space. Most sites only need less than 100MB of web space so if your provider offers you more space do not be entice with this offer.
    •    Customer and Technical Support Availability so that in case you encounter any problems they are there to immediately help you.
    •    Provider should offer FTP, PHP, Perl, SSI, .htaccess, telnet, SSH, MySQL, cron jobs since you need all of this to maintain your site.
    •    Secured Shopping Cart. If you want to collect payments through credit cards you need this feature.
    •    Personal email  and autoresponder that has your own domain name. It is more convenient to have an email software which can forward all emails to your current email address.
    •    Server with an available backup
    •    Annual Payment Plan with monthly installments

If you are on a budget like a lot of webmasters are I would pay your hosting bill yearly or every six months.  This way you can save money and spend your money elsewhere on SEO work or other features you want to integrate on your website.  One of my favorite web hosting providers for sites that are just starting out is Fatcow because they have deal where you can pay once a year for under 50 dollars.  However, it is only shared hosting packages, so if you need more resources you will have to go with a good VPS provider.