How to find a Reliable and Affordable web hosting

First, not all the web hosting company called themselves reliable are just like what they said. You can check them out through main search engines (Yahoo, Google, MSN, Alexa, Ask). Such as a web hosting company named www.thisisatestwebhosting.com, you can search its domain as a key words, if you can't find it in the search result list. At least this company is not reliable. The more search engines list a web hosting company, the more reliable it is.

Second, check out their all contact informations and service claims. A reliable web hosting company should have real contact phone call, real address and real contact person. Better have a great customer list. They should have 7x24 customer service, instant reply and data backup service. To find more reliable information about this web hosting company, you can login some webhosting forums (such as: http://www.webmasterworld.com/) to ask others give you opinions about that company.

Third, don't drop too much on a new web hosting company, try it for 6 months to a year, when they are really stable and reliable, then just roll out all your plans.

Last, to be affordable, most of reliable web hosting companies have all most the same price on the same type of web hosting. You should always notice the company coupon news, decrease the size of your website, because the main expense of your site is bandwidth. The less bandwidth is meaning less money. I mean relatively you can optimize your website with the least disk to run your website for gain the same or even more revenue. So if you wanna to be affordable, there are two things you should to do: control your bandwidth and gain more revenues.