Adtastic Client Services > Knowledgebase > Pre-Sales Questions > Why should I order your hosting when I can get it cheaper elsewhere?
Granted, there are plenty of companies out there offering cheap web hosting from $1.99 a month and up. And most of them offer you the cheap web hosting with "unlimited" bandwidth and even "unlimited" storage space in some instances. However, try and use unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage space and see what happens. You'll find in the fine print they have a system to throttle your website based upon "CPU" usage and when your bandwidth exceeds a certain level the CPU usage will kick in. Just think about it. How can a company truly offer such a deal and survive? Bandwidth and storage space costs real dollars. At worst, the company you have entrusted with hosting your website will be out of business tomorrow and at best you will have a rather low grade service because no company really can profitably offer so much for so little.
There is a huge difference between those cheap web hosting packages and our hosting packages. Unless you are purchasing a "dedicated server" hosting package, all hosting companies host your website under what is called "virtual web hosting". What this means is that they configure the server that is hosting your website to be able to host many websites under the same IP address. According to research we have conducted, the average virtual hosting system hosts around 1,000 websites under one ip address. There are many technical reasons why this might be bad. But the biggest reason is that means there are potentially 999 other individual websites hosted under one central processing system. This means your website being delivered to large amounts of traffic at any given time might be unreliable at best.
Now, if you are a small business and you never hope to be really successful and have lots of traffic, have a dynamic website that loads quickly in your visitors browser, be concerned about what the other 999 individuals might be doing under that same IP address (they could be spammers, pornographers, schemers or who knows what) and so forth, cheap hosting might be the way to go for you.
You get what you pay for.
On the other hand, if you want your website hosted in a virtual hosting configuration that will never oversell the server and will always limit the number of accounts under one virtual hosting configuration to less than 100 accounts (all of which will be other legitimate businesses), has very fast delivery of your web pages to the visitors browser and provides exceptional support to help you grow your business, then perhaps you will consider paying just a little bit more for the service. Our limit of less than 100 accounts per virtual hosting environment is virtually unheard of in this industry which wants to squeeze as much profit as possible out of each server however our service is predicated upon providing our customers with the very best possible server environment at the lowest possible cost. Although we are a hosting company, our profit center is not driven by hosting but by the other services we provide to help our customers succeed such as low cost search engine marketing, web analytics and Internet marketing services.
