why people buy expensive hosting

[vijayshetty]

almost all shared hosting are same in features
many has good offers like 1usd/month
still why people go for expensive hosting with more price?

 

[MD32]

Many reasons. A few off the top of my head would be if you get high volumes of traffic then shared hosting is often capped at no. of visitors per month.
It's also usually faster for the user to load a site with dedicated hosting meaning better customer experience. Also considerations such as technical support from the sites, if you are getting millions of views a month it is very costly to have downtime for even a few hours. Sure there are many other reasons. As you say though shared hosting is more than adequate for most people just starting out.

 

[TheVigilante]

Because no one wants their business to be at stake!

Because majority of them are resellers

 

[Mr Schneebly]

Some are first time hosting buyers so they wouldn’t know the difference between snake oil and real value, easy for hosting providers to capitalize on this by having big, exciting, confusing copy

 

[awesomewebsites]

Sometimes they are not aware of options. Sometimes it is needed like in cases where their site is getting huge traffic.

 

[vijayshetty]

Some are first time hosting buyers so they wouldn’t know the difference between snake oil and real value, easy for hosting providers to capitalize on this by having big, exciting, confusing copy

fatcow,hostmantis are good one with low price

 

[Lamuks]

From my experience. Brand recognition. A person who has little knowledge about it will just opt for the same registrar's hosting, which could be way more expensive and with fewer features, i.e GoDaddy.

 

[Mr Positive]

Fast loading speed

 

[Deleted member 15724]

You pretty much get what you pay for. One of my first media buy campaigns, I was on a really tight budget at the time and settled with some cheap $2/mo hosting. The campaign blew up and eventually I ran out of bandwidth in a few days and had to upgrade.

In another case, I had an SEO campaign I was playing around with, but since it was adult I decided to put it on my hostgator server. I'm an SEO noob, but the site starting ranking pretty quickly and I started seeing leads on a daily basis. A few weeks later, I never realized but hostgator kicked me off that server for using too many resources. Those leads ended up turning into sales weeks later and I still get checks in the mail for that campaign (lifetime revshare). Had I shelled out a few more bucks, those checks would've been 3 - 4x bigger right now.

Cheap hosting is fine if you're just starting out and don't have the budget, but ALWAYS upgrade whenever you decide to start taking your projects more seriously.

 

[bartosimpsonio]

Once you've used something like Rackspace you'll know why.

Expensive! But lightning fast, support is amazing (personal and concerned about your biz) and so on.

Only worth it if you got the traffic and $.

 

[naaz aniqua]

You need to host the site if you want to get a website live on the internet. ... Web hosting is generally the space you buy on the web server so you can save the file on your website. When you purchase a web hosting, you essentially rent server space on a server where all your web files will be present.

 

[Sizus]

Almost any 1$ / month hosting I have tried got my website(s) getting hacked at least once, also their system always have some bug(s) which irritates me, and shit customer support. This is why.

 

[MisterXYZ]

Speed, security, support, availability...

All these things matter...

 

[vijayshetty]

Fast loading speed

features r same like ssd etc

 

[vijayshetty]

Almost any 1$ / month hosting I have tried got my website(s) getting hacked at least once, also their system always have some bug(s) which irritates me, and shit customer support. This is why.

when I tried fatcow or hostmantis it did not got hacked

 

[SEOMadHatter]

Because cheap hosting means slow speeds which loses a lot more money than you'd save. People don't have the patience to wait for a loading screen.

 

[pauliakas]

Do you buy the cheapest food/car/phone/clothes/condoms?

The main reasons why people spend money on better hosting is:

• Stability and availability -basically uptime.
• Site loading speed. Has SSD disks, good fast network, LiteSpeed, LSCache and stuff like that.
  
• Security ( https://techcrunch.com/2019/08/25/web-host-hostinger-data-breach/ ; https://www.reddit.com/r/webhosting/comments/e27lc8/every_single_site_hacked_on_fastcomet/ ).
  
• Support.
• Daily/weekly/monthly backups
  
• Other services company can provide CDN, SSL, Dedicated Ip, DDoS Protection, MailChannels etc.

 

[xcodes]

you can split 1 dedicated server to 1000 shared hosting then price will be 1$ , if 500 price will be 2$ if 100 price will be 3$ to 5$
So matter is the less resource dedicated server consume the better speed your website have. Based on that only prices are based. protection , cloud, speed are based on how smart company is they are open source to try.
good luck.

 

[tubeboost]

Resources, traffic, control, security and safety.

 

[aurim]

Because better safe than sorry. You pay more as your websites are of more importance to you. Bigger price most of the time means more quality product.