Whether you are looking for a web developer or want to build your own website, there are myriads of pricing plans available for website hosting.

Before making your decision, you need to have deeper insights into the cost-effectiveness of your website, whilst aiming to get exceptional performance. With comprehensive hosting information, you will be able to pick your best-suited web host.

Let’s see what the average prices of different web hosting services are and what you can expect in the plan:

• Costs of Starting a New Website

When wanting to build your own website, you need to consider a few aspects and their related costs. You can launch your site from scratch. If you opt for an open-source web development software solution such as WordPress, it won’t cost you anything. Yet, you need to consider the following factors:

• Domain Name: Domain pricing varies a lot, depending upon what name you’re planning to get. Standard “.com” names can cost you around $10 to $50 a year.

• Premium plugins: If you want better user control over the different functionalities of your website, you need to consider investing in premium plugins and themes. This will allow you to stay ahead of the competition, seeing how the market is dominated by seamless, faster-loading, intuitive websites.
• Web hosting: Web hosting will get your site up and running over the internet, and it requires a monthly hosting fee.

Apart from this, there are additional expenses related to content creation, web development, marketing, graphic design, and more. But in this post, we are particularly going to look at the costs related to web hosting.

• Web Hosting Pricing

Web developers help you with secure web hosting, but often this fee is not included in the development fees. Below given are different types of web hosting methods along with their pricing details.

• Shared Web Hosting 

In this type of hosting, different websites are hosted on the same server. Each website gets its own web address and space but they have to share the resources. It is one of the cheapest options to host a website and it will cost you anywhere from $3 to $7 per month.

The downside about such type of hosting is that if another website on the server experiences a traffic spike or a hacking attack, it will affect the speed and load time of your site.

• Virtual Private Server (VPS) Hosting

Again in this type of hosting, various websites are hosted on the same server, but the number is lesser than shared hosting. Each website gets its own dedicated virtual server, leading to higher uptimes, better traffic volume, and faster load speeds as compared to shared hosting.

Another difference is that it provides better user control to each account. This is somewhat similar to dedicated server hosting. Accounts will share the server, but you will have the freedom to control the hosting environment.

VPS hosting is slightly more expensive than shared hosting and it costs around $20 to $30 or above per month.

• Dedicated Server Hosting

This is a premium type of web hosting where you get your own server and full control over the server environment. Users get to choose the number of websites to host, what software to run, and so on. Websites with higher traffic spikes and those who seek top-notch security can opt for dedicated servers. It is the most expensive out of all the web hosting types and you can expect to pay up to $100 or above per month.

• Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting is one of the modern ways of web hosting. It provides you access to various remote servers, instead of a single dedicated or shared server. This approach provides excellent scalability, as you can add or reduce resources on-demand and only pay for the resources you use. This solution is the best for websites with inconsistent spikes in traffic.

Cloud hosting can either be cheap or expensive, depending upon your business needs.

To conclude, web hosting can approximately cost you anywhere from $45 to $1200 per year, depending upon which type of web hosting you choose.

• PBN Hosting

If you are looking to host several WordPress websites then you should get cheap PBN hosting plans for your private blog networks. Such plans offer specific features that other web hosting plans do not offer such as unique multiple IP hosting with different server locations and without footprints. Such features are vital to ensure that all your websites that are part of a network do run smoothly and are not connected with each other for better SEO. You can find the most affordable PBN hosting options starting at $0.95 per month for 1 website and IP. Make sure you compare different plans and their features to choose the best option for your PBNs.

• Hidden Costs of Web Hosting

A web host is one of the crucial factors that affect the website’s expenses. A web hosting server is a place where your website practically lives. Different factors influence the costs of web hosting and they are as follows:

• Types of web hosting
• Security
• Website traffic
• Servers
• Renewal and configuration fees
• Operational costs

There’s no one-size-fits-all approach when it comes to a web host. As your enterprise scales with time, your web host must be able to scale as well and this again means increased costs.

• Cheap Web Hosting vs. Premium Web Hosting

•  Speed

If you choose the cheaper web hosting options such as shared hosting, you will get what you pay for.

Your business might want to expand its size in the future, and shared web hosting might slow down the speed of the site in such cases. This slowdown is often referred to as “bandwidth throttling”, which is done to limit the incoming and outgoing data flow of your website to prevent the slow-down of other websites on the server. This in turn may cause poor customer experiences, error messages, increased page load time, high bounce rates, and page abandonment.

• Security and Customer Support

Premium web hosting solutions are often more reliable and secure, especially when it comes to 24*7 one-on-one customer support. Security and higher uptimes directly affect a company’s data, reputation, and customer loyalty to your brand.

Premium web hosting offers you high-end features such as security audits, firewall configurations, regular scans of viruses and malware, spam filtering, network protocols, multi-factor authentication, user controls, and so on. All of these are generally included in the subscription plan of your premium web hosting service.

At last, paying higher is much better than compromising the security and performance of your website. Besides, many cheap web hosting plans often have hidden costs whilst also cutting off security features.

• Servers

Premium web hosting will leverage servers that feature 24*7 monitoring, updated software, automatic updates, and regular maintenance. Most of the VPS, cloud, or high-quality shared web hosts will offer this. But, dedicated servers usually do not offer such managed options to provide you more control over the server.

We recommend going for dedicated servers only if your site has over 100,000 visitors per month.

• Conclusion

Pick a reliable hosting provider that will take care of your business-critical hosting needs. Hosting a site on your own demands higher operational costs and eat up plenty of your time. Instead, find the best and reliable hosting provider at the start itself, so you can focus on other critical operations of your business, and avoid paying hidden hosting costs.

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