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Our list of the best cheap web hosting companies focuses on monthly cost, term lengths and overall value. You should keep a few factors in mind when you’re choosing the best web host for your website, cheap or otherwise.

Unlimited vs Unmetered

Web hosting services seem to shift between unlimited and unmetered in regards to storage and bandwidth with little explanation. If you read the fine print of the Terms and Conditions from each host, you’ll usually find the answer.

If your storage is unlimited, it often comes with conditions. For example, if you use too many resources on a shared server, as it relates to others on the server, the web host may ask you to remove files from your site.

Unmetered bandwidth usually means that the hosting company isn’t paying…

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If you own a domain or manage a website, you’ve undoubtedly come across name servers. These machines are responsible for moving traffic around the internet, but what is a name server, exactly? And more importantly, what do they do?

In basic terms, name servers are useful for connecting specific URLs with the correct IP address of the site’s server. But properly explaining how they work and why they are useful
is a little more involved. We’ve gathered everything you need to know about name servers, what they are and why they’re vital…