The future ain’t lookin too bright, the economy blows you need to start saving money.  While on the way home from work tonight I was thinking about my next post while reading the paper and all saw were stories about a recession or this & that company have gone bankrupt or articles on how to save money and then it hit me.  I haven’t even begun to rethink my spending strategies and where I could save money.

You are a blogger like me or an online web guru type person and one nagging expense is your monthly hosting bill that can range anywhere from $5/month to hundreds/month.  The trap that a lot of us fall into is the attractive looking hosting packages that many hosting companies offer.  Most hosts will offer packages for $10-$15 that include hundreds of gigabytes of disk space, terabytes of bandwidth and hundreds of email accounts.  They look so nice you can’t pass them up and you’re now the proud owner of a powerful hosting account.  If you run scores of websites and need all that stuff then great, but like most people we end up using 1% of what is available to us.

We need to re-evaluate what we are using and how much we are spending.  There is always a ‘value’ hosting plan offered that usually has half of what the $10-$15 plan will have in terms of resources, and it will usually cost about $5 or $6 which at least a 50% savings.  Keep in mind that should your site grow or you open more websites and need the extra resources, your host will almost always allow you to seamlessly upgrade your account to a better account.