Cheap Hosting for Small Needs
Let's say you need to run a small website, that you don't expect to be overloaded with visitors at first. Let's say you only need a small amount of space, and bandwidth, and you'd also like to host several domain names on one cheap hosting account. You have small needs. What host is good for this?
There are many, many choices, but a few things to look for are:
Well known hosting companies, in business for a while. Not that new companies are necessarily bad, but you just don't know enough about them yet.
No cheaper than $5 to $10 per month. Any cheaper than that and they just aren't making a profit and may have bad support.
Oversold offers. Claims of unlimited storage or unlimited bandwidth. This doesn't necessarily mean the company is bad, and in fact some of the biggest and best known hosts offer "unlimited" accounts. But just be aware that unlimited does not mean that. See truth about unlimited hosting.
That said, here are some good choices if you are looking for quality cheap account without excessive resource-needs: