If you are looking for cheap dedicated hosting, you will need to give some thought to what your hosting plan will cover. Under some circumstances, you may find that you will need to purchase web hosting space from another provider, or pay for a more robust package. As you may be aware, it will be difficult, if not impossible to run an e-commerce site without dedicated hosting. Therefore, you need to be very careful about choosing your hosting service and package type.
Even though you may be getting a dedicated IP address for your website, the hosting service may still limit the bandwidth and the amount of space that you can have. As a result, if you have pages with a lot of graphics, or various kinds of scripts, they may use up your allotted bandwidth very quickly. Under these circumstances, individuals visiting your website will only see an error page. On the other hand, it is very hard to find cheap dedicated hosting plans that also offer unlimited bandwidth.
You will also find that dedicated hosting plans will also curtail the amount of information you can store. Do you have a lot of catalog images? Are you planning to have a flash header or other large files on the site? If so, you may find that you need to do something other than host all of the pages on the same plan.
If you want the best of both worlds, you can use cheap dedicated hosting just for your sales processing page. From there, you can try putting your catalog pages and other information on a cheaper hosting plan with larger bandwidth privileges. In most cases, this can easily save you several hundred dollars per year. In addition, when you use two different web hosting services, you can always transfer files in case one goes down.
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Great post. It is possible to used two web hosting plan at same time?
I’m wondering if that can be. And probably the company that you will use is so expensive because your going to use two at same time.
Alfred
Hi Alfred,
Yes you could. You could host different parts of the same site on different hosts. However, it would be more expensive than using just one host.