You know what is SATYAM’s (one of India’s IT major)punch line? It’s “our people make the difference”. Yes, their own chairman has made the difference, isn’t it?

So the moral is please don’t fall prey to stuffs like “unlimited” and “99.9″. These are nothing but marketing strategies.

If you own a company, you will sell your products by hook or crook.

My site is hosted on Web1 servers for about a year and half and believe me, whatever DEEP said in his comments, they are ALL true.

@ Deep

Thanks for the clarification.

Yes there are LOT of companies providing cheap web space, for e.g. around 10 GB web space with some 100 GB bandwidth for Rs. 2000 a year.. or some companies like dreamhost are like unlimited webspace for around Rs. 5000 a year..
and also, many of the Indian companies buy reseller accounts with other companies and sell the webspace at dirt cheap rate.. their support works fine in the begining but in the long run.. everyone knows what happens to those companies

Okay, back to big companies providing space at low rate.

Following key factors to check:

1. Their server configurations (Dreamhost has decent servers) – Most of the companies do not invest into good servers but yea, some of them do too..

2. Overselling / Over usage – You can buy account with any of these cheap hosting companies, log on to shell account or their cpanel.. check for server load.. in 90% of the cases, the load will be above 3-4.. where as in our servers, in 90% of the cases it will be below 1.

So, now the question is, how does it affect a normal user? Well, to be frank, the user with not-so-serious website, or say users with static sites, it might not affect much.. but the users with decent traffic with database driven website, they will surely see the difference in the speed.

We also provide webspace at cheap rate, 1 GB for say Rs. 1,500 a year.. but that will be on the budget servers with not so high configuration..

But the rates which are mentioned on our site, are strictly for our business servers, which run on 8 cores with 4 GB RAM and we make sure that enough of resources are free, so that everyone gets quality hosting experience.

Also, I would like to point you about, “unlimited” webspace.

There is nothing like unlimited in computers.. everything comes with a limit.. you buy a hard disk.. it comes in say.. 500 GB, 1 TB, 2 TB, 3TB but there is a limit to it..

You simply cannot have unlimited space… what I suggest is, have a unlimited account with any company… have the stuff over 1 or 2 GBs and then see what happens.. in most of the cases, support staff will ask you to move to higher priced packages as their shared hosting won’t be able to take load of the high usage websites… (If you are going to share files worth 1 – 2 GB+ on the server, then your usage of the resources also going to be high and thats where the problem starts)

I am not saying companies providing cheap hosting are bad.. but surely, most of them are not good..

That’s it I gues…

Cheers,
Deep

Warm Wishes
Rakshit

Thanks a lot for the kind words. We really love to see happy people around and help our clients / friends to grow. So we do every best possible thing we can.

cheers
Deep