Getting Hosted:
"What to look out for?"

As more and more webhosts emerge, it has become increasingly difficult to differentiate the true hosts from the scams. A webhost can promise you the sky, but are they able to fufill that promise?

Getting hosted is similar to renting a house. You want to make sure that you get what you are promised. However, unlike renting a house, it is not easy to find out if you have been short changed until you have moved in.

Fortunately, there are certain tell-tale signs of fly-by-operations that you can look out for before you get hosted.

1. Scammers are only after one thing. Your money. Their only aim is to get as many clients as possible, collect as much cash as they can, and then make a fast exit. After that they will probably shut down their site and open a new one under a different name and the cycle starts all over again.

These scammers do not invest any time or effort in getting their site professionally designed. They don't need to. They attract people with ridiculously low pricing promising whatever it takes to achieve their aims.

2. Accountability. Many of these sites uses free third party payment systems so that they hope they can get the money transferred to them fast and with minimal verification of their personal details. And again, free payment systems mean that they scam more money with minimal capital outlay.

3. Last but not least, trust your instincts. If anything seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Good luck on your search for a web host!