What is a fair price for hosting?

The range is very broad to say the least, here is what I see being used as bait;

Space:
I don't know how hosts can offer unlimited space but some 'say' they do.

Bandwidth:
Which I believe is the 'meat' of hosting, usually has a real impact on the price, and again, some hosts claim to give 'ulimited'.

Extras:
MySQL, PHP, CGI, cPanel, etc.
Most hosts have all the above if they don't your definitly going to the wrong place.

Support:
Here is the most important thing of all. Without support your paddling in the water in a leaky boat and miles from shore.

So what is fair? Is (in my instance) $5 fair for 200 mb of space and 3 gb of bandwidth? Maybe, maybe not...

Suggestions for people looking:
Call your host, do they answer the phone? How quickly? Check out their forum (if they have one) are their numerous complaints from customers?

Finnaly, believe me when I tell you, if it sounds too good to be true.... it is. No one can offer unlimited everything for $0.50/year and stay in business long.

My $0.02

A good service or a good product should have a fair price in most cases. As they say - there is nothing like a free lunch. When I was in college and also shortly after, I was very cheap in regards to purchasing products. Learned the hard way, that quality has its price. All the money I had saved through the 'good deal' got spend twice in the end to fix what broke. Works similiar in web hosting.

Chris

I so remember the college days of buying a block of velveta cheese and a loaf of bread and eating melted cheese sandwiches

Hehe - that sounds appealing. Those were the days ..... Sometimes I miss 'em.

Chris

The only difference now seems to be that our blocks of cheese are bigger and the loafs are a better quality bread.

Depends on what your looking for. If your looking for a host that will be out of business in a couple weeks, go for the host that offers unlimited everything for $3. If your looking for a host with bad tech support go for that $3 host. If your looking for a host that plans on being around (And offers good support), look at paying around 50 cents per gb bandwidth.

Hi there.

Unlimited disk space and unlimited data transfer are hosters risk. They expect You not to reach even 500MB of disk and 10GB of Bandwidth. So if You use more they pay for it... It's their risk.

Thank You!

Unlimited disk space and unlimited data transfer is not a risk it's a lie. Plain and simple.

i like hosting around the $1 to 5 Range

Why do you need unlimeted space and bandwidth on a first place?

The fair price is not calculated by the GB but for what you are using your hosting. If you have e-commerce website that generates you $20-30k a month you will not care to pay $2/GB but you will care if the servers are slow or they are down most of the time.

If you are going to be using the hosting for your hoby's website what will be the benefit of having 20 times more space and bandwidth than what you really need?