Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Here are some of the more common "scams" practiced by fly by night Webhosting companies

A) Deceiving Price Advertising.
Some hosting providers will advertise a very low and attractive monthly price. You will be lured to their site and overwhelmed with flashy graphics and follow the order links only to find out that in order to get that low price, you must prepay 3,6, and sometimes 1 year in advance.

B) Yearly / Advance Payments.
Some hosting providers encourage and heavily promote advance payments for hosting services. Some even offer such tempting discounts that it is hard not to give in to their ploy. This can be done for one of two reasons.

1) the hosting company is barley hanging onfinancially and needs all the money they can getto pay their bills for the month or
2) they know that their service is less than acceptable and without an advance commitment the customers are sure to leave.

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