Cheap vs. Affordable Hosting
In the Philippines, cheap and affordable are interchangeable in the web hosting market. plogHost tries to seperate each one from the other.
Cheap hosting means that you get more for less and thus gives the impression that clients get a huge bargain for cheap web hosting. This is usually measured in peso-per-megabyte in the resource allocation for disk space and bandwidth.
On the other hand, affordable hosting is a little different in our definition. Affordable reflects the ability of the consumer to be able to acquire such a prodyct or service, whether or not it is cheap.
Case in point, fully managed dedicated servers nowadays are cheap and could be had for around Php8,000 in the Philippine web hosting market. However, not every person who wants to get a web host can “afford” such cheap servers.
Thus, a more affordable alternative is to go for shared hosting. It may not be cheap, but most people can afford it.
1 comment May 23rd, 2006
