What I have learned over the last month or so, through first hand experience and secondary research is that all low-cost web hosts are essentially the same.

The product they offer is adequate for small time players like me. The performance is good to great at first and seems to deteriorate over time, whether it be months or years. They all are reliable … Until they aren’t.

GoDaddy has been my web host for several years and I have found them to be following the stereotypical life cycle of a low-cost web host. GoDaddy has recently been giving my WordPress site a lot of trouble the past month and the past few days have had significant downtime, again only for my WordPress site. The other pages and files performed well throughout.

I seriously considered switching to one of the three WordPress recommended we hosts, but from the reviews they all seem to be the same.

What have I really learned? If you are paying less than $10 a month for web hosting you are bound to run into similar issues at some point.

It seems that you would need to pay at least $15 a month from a company like LiquidWeb if you want more reliable, higher performance web hosting.

Thanks for reading.