Every good thing has its good cost. However due to cut throat competition companies use different
strategies to lower their price which is surprisingly much below the cost incurred to
provide that standard service. In Web Hosting, the
price war has been even more intense.
The total cost of acquiring a domain, web space and
its administration has its own significant cost.
Volume Card
However big companies play on the volume card providing few standard features which are
common to everybody and anybody. They thus avoid personalised services which helps
reduce their administration cost.
Overloaded Servers
The servers are quite overloaded and have more web spaces alloted than the standard mark.
The various websites of clients are left to struggle for resources (like bandwidth etc.)
on their own.
Key features locked
The companies often lock several key features just to reduce load on the Server, for e.g.
FTP is locked and all the uploading is expected to be done through Web Interface which
is a painstaking task.
Avoid Burstible Bandwidth
Companies avoid giving burstible bandwidth i.e. they fix upper limit of the bandwidth that
can be used for a particular site. This can cause unavailability of your site during high-load
periods to most of the visitors.
Ill-administered Servers
Some even go to the extent of buying a high capacity hard disk and a leased line and
setting it as a server with no proper administration. In such cases, the standard of the
support is below than expected. Well such a move is basically to befool the people
and to earn money in a fraudulent way.
So finally ....
With these behind-the-scene facts it becomes neccessary for the clients not to get lured
by the temptation of low price. It may prove to be a very risky deal for long term. It is therefore
advisable to analyse the price chart of a company in the light of the quality of service
being provided by the them.
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