1)Overselling:

Keeping costs as low as possible, remains a full time commitment for a very cheap web host. It is by overselling technique that very cheap web host can sustain to sell at such low prices. However, no customer bothers to know that low cost support has good chances of being more limited in terms of quality.

2)Getting attracted towards huge offers:

The customer should be aware of the fact that the bigger the surprised offered by the host, the more overselling is involved.

3)Understand policy and procedures:

A potential customer should carefully read the terms of service, acceptable usuage policy etc. He must read the FAQ pages to get a better understanding of situations which may arise in the future and thus you will be able to handle it successfully. Also, check for any abnormal conditions which might not be suitable as per your requirement. The clauses in the terms of service may limit the way in which the web host account can be used . Example: a clause may say that the web host accounts must be used for regular on standard type websites and that 95% of the used space can be linked to or from a HTML webpage. However, the hosting account cannot be used for storage or backup purpose or even for file distribution related job work. The above mentioned examples will make you realize that you must carefully read the terms of service of any web hosting company before deciding to pay for the service involved. Also, avoid very cheap hosting providers who have just started recently. If you opt for well established companies, you at least can be assumed that they will not do the disappearing act by over night.

4)Customer support:

Customer support is the most important thing that every customer would look forward in a company. The very cheap hosting companies claim to maintain an acceptable level of customer satisfaction by keeping the cost low and also promising good customer support. However, to what level the customer support is affected to a potential customer should be checked and verified before falling to their tall claims.

5)Don’t become a prey for the hosting company:

Mostly, customers feel that they are enjoying some level of success with regard to their hosting provider. However, they do not realize that a particular package might have been over sold to them. The concerned web host knows that these types of customers do use very little of what is being promised by the hosts. It is understood that a customer having very limited hosting needs, is unlikely to use high levels of server resources. He is the exact type of customer that these web hosting companies are looking out for. Thus, the web hosting providers are able to earn good profits on these type of customers. Also, the potential customer must be careful when he decides to buy a particular web hosting package with regard to huge space and data transfer to store and distribute big files like audio and video files, high resolution images. You must decide on a package which is as close to your requirement. Otherwise, you will end up paying the host for what you are not going to use. So, see that your requirement matches with the web hosting plan. If you follow this rule, you will then not give a chance for the web hosting provider to make use of your unattended hosting space, which normally happens in case of a newbie web hosting customer.