Hosting with Your ISP

If you are using your ISP (Internet Service Provider) as your web host you are wasting money and missing out on features and services. While hosting with your ISP may be simple, there are many pros and cons to using web hosting services provided by ISP's.

COST
ISP's overcharge for hosting, because they can. On average ISP's will provide hosting for about $20-$25 per month. $20 isn't a bad price to pay each month if you are receiving excellent features, tons of space and good service. But ISP's usually offer small amounts of web space, few features and no support. In fact, most users could get the hosting quality they get from an ISP from a FREE host! ISP's capitalize on new Internet users who don't know there are other low cost hosting options available.

FEATURES
ISP's typically offer very basic web hosting services which exclude advanced features like MySQL databases, PHP, CGI scripts, and technical support. If they do offer these features it is usually as an add-on with fees attached.

WEB SPACE
ISP's jam as many users possible on one shared server and offer minimal web space allotments to their clients. This creates server overcrowding problems for users and gives little room for website growth.

If you are still hosting with your ISP switch now. You deserve better. Check out BlueHost as an alternative. They make it easy to switch and have some of the best hosting package deals and support available at only $3.95 per month for unlimited hosting.