You might think that you've hit the "mother lode" if you are paying $10-$12 a year for website hosting that comes with a free website builder. But not so fast! You might not be getting the deal that you thought that you have. Budget hosting comes with a lot of setbacks that you need to think about before signing up. You might think that you are getting a cheap deal when it's going to cost you on the back end.

First, the best that you can hope for with cheap website hosting is poor customer service if they offer any at all. This is because these "website hosting companies" are just resellers of web server space. They aren't going to have the staff in place to handle customer concerns, and you'd better hope that they know what they are talking about.

Next, the tech support can be lacking. You have to think about it; these budget hosters are small businesses and they can't or won't be able to service you 24/7. This means extended website downtime or loss of key functions can occur for you. This of course means a loss of visitor traffic and online purchases, with regards to an e-commerce website.

If the website experiences frequent outtages, then you are losing money, and then the price of the cheap website hosting is useless, because now it's costing you more money to keep the poor hosting service. It would do you better to pay a little more for a quality website hosting service that will be there for you, and that will offer you 24/7 tech support. This is going to in turn make sure that your clients and website visitors can reach you at any time they see fit.

Another factor for a quality website is the speed that it loads up. This factor is so important, even Google is using this as a parameter that goes into determining the page rank of a website. With regards to the speed in which a page loads, there is the architecture, the graphics, and the coding. But you also have to think about the space availability, and the tech specs of the server, with regards to how fast a website page will load up.

One of the unfortunate hallmarks of budget hosting is cramming bunches and bunches of websites on a single server. This of course will load down the server, and this will slow down the loading speed of the webpage. Of course, a bloated and crowded server will find it difficult to process request from so many websites at once. Some websites are going to suffer in the process. If this wasn't bad enough, then using the free website builder results in a site that isn't premium for browser loading. The thing then is to find a budget hosting firm that puts a cap on the number of websites that are hosted on one particular server. A step better for you is to simply pay a little more for better service, and then you can get the service that you need, will make visitors happy, and that won't embarrass you and your business name.

Let's look at another disadvantage of budget hosting. The issue is with bandwith limits (or data transfer). The reason is because users of budget service aren't expected to have high data transfer traffic. Depending on the service provider, your service could be blocked when you surpass the data limit, or you will start being charged a premium price once you go past your data transfer limit. So as you can see, when you signed up for the budget hosting service to save money, you really didn't save money at all, but you will lose money.

Do you know (or did you know that) banks have been accused of compensating for low interest rates by jacking up other rates or creating other fees? You'll find that the budget hosting companies will get their money on the back-end with other inflated cost and made up fees. The common set up cost as high as $50, so you can quickly deduce that you will end up spending more than a standard hosting service.

Another ways that these budget companies get their back-end money, is by selling a website builder that comes with a skeleton hosting service that is going to be unusable for most users. Then you are going to be asked to pay for additional features and services. You would have found that if you went with a standard hosting package, you would have obtained these things for free.

So, think about things long and hard before you sign up with a hosting company. Think about the benefits of a low annual cost compared to what it actually has. And while you are making your decision, think about a company such as Pace Work Technologies.