Visit Buy Web Hosting, to find a list of very reputable shared hosting companies with different features that will meet any of your needs. None of these companies oversell and have all been in business for some time.

Virtually all of them are under $8 or $10 per month when you pay for a year in advance. If you pay more than that for shared hosting, then you’re being overcharged. Most hosting companies these days also offer high disk space allowances, over 2GB, plus large bandwidth allocations in excess of 50 GB per month. This is clever marketing on behalf of the Hosting Company because these high numbers sound impressive, enticing people to buy. The fact is than an average website uses less than 10Mb of space and very little bandwidth.

Bandwidth is the amount of data transferred between your server and your website visitor. So if you have a 100K image file on your website and 10 people view the image, you would have used 1000K (1Mb) of bandwidth. The more people who view your website, the more bandwidth will be used. 10000 views of your image would use 10000 x 100 K = 1 GB.

Hosting Companies rely on the very fact that most of their clients will only use a fraction of their disk space and bandwidth from the huge allocations, but this falls in your favor because they are contracted to give you all of your allowance, and we’ll show you how to take full advantage of this and save yourself a fortune when it comes to your mini-sites.

Apart from your disk space and bandwidth allocations, check out the features offered by each company. If you have web design skills and use applications like Contribute or Front Page to maintain your website, make sure they are supported. If you need a shopping cart, ensure that they include one as part of the package.

Also think ahead to your additional requirements such as email. How many mailboxes will you need? Will your mail be high volume? Will you need auto responders? These are all questions better asked before signing up. Make a list of your requirements, then cross reference your list with the hosts you’re interested in, and see who fits your needs best.

With the competitiveness that exists in the hosting market, many of the top companies constantly run special discount offers such as discounted pricing, free months or increased disk and bandwidth offers. For mini sites that won’t be more than a few pages, and can be easily moved between hosting companies, these offers are perfect because you can utilize them for a year at the discounted price, then move to a new host, and offer, the following year.