The internet has long been a hot bed of urban legends. The fact that you can read things without having to see the person who is giving you the information means that you lose a lot of the key factors that help you determine whether they are telling the truth or not, such as eye contact, tone of voice, body language and other visual or audial cues that humans have been raised to recognize. Because of these limitations, outrageously dramatized tales and even downright hoaxes have been able to spread like wild fire across the net in rapid time. This has swung the doors wide open for con men and women of all types and even those practical jokers who wanted to get a good laugh at the gullible public’s expense.
When it comes to web hosting, there are plenty of grand promises and crazy assertions that you don’t want to get fooled about. For starters, it is good to keep in mind that if something looks too good to be true then it probably is and will require some research. There are plenty of blogs and forums online where you can check the validity of crazy claims, but keep in mind that trolls love to go into public places and tell their own looney stories, too.
For starters, if you hear about a service that guarantees 100% uptime then you might want to coat yourself in a level of skepticism. All web hosts have to perform maintenance and no one can gauge the future. Chances are good that if your host is trying to claim that they’ve never, ever experienced down time then they might be full of fertilizing excrement. If the host claims that they don’t employ many tech support people and therefore can hardly ever be reached because they “rarely have problems” you might want to watch out because the last thing you need is being put on hold forever or getting only automated email responses when you have a serious problem because the company is so wonderful it only needs two tech support people who primarily play Wii instead of responding to the customers.
Hosts that try to maintain that they give you all the bandwidth you could ever want are also bound to be lying. If you reach any serious level of success with your website or even more likely, a network of popular sites, then you are going to pay for bandwidth. Don’t buy into the hopes of free bandwidth because when you exceed it, you are going to have to pay for going over the amount your account has been allowed. If you go too far, then you might find your service terminated. Read that Terms of Service document carefully and you will often find that big promises can be overridden with little text – the so-called fine print. Pay attention to the details, grasshopper, and you will be far more likely to succeed in the online world.
Remember, when it looks as if you might be dealing with a fairy tale web host, check the backstory and find out if these folks are for real first!
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