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Choosing a good web host is a rather difficult endeavor since you can get excellent or lousy service for the same price. It's much better to get it right the first time, than to move from one host to another,  wasting unnecessary time and money. 

There are plenty of companies that offer cheap web hosting services. You can even find hosts which offer a long list of features for as low as $1-$2 per month. But be wary - they usually offer not much disk space, require long term contract from you, and, since hard disk space is cheap these days, they make money by packing thousands of sites on one physical machine.

Here are some recommendations you should look into and consider when shopping for a new web host for your site: 

1) Even if your site needs only 1 MB of disk space and 1 GB of transfer like the vast majority of sites, choose a host that offers a more than what you need. This ensures that there is enough room when your site needs to grow and requires more resources later. 

2) Choose a we host that offers a money back guarantee. Those that do are more confident about high quality of their hosting. Typically, the guarantee period is about 30-45 days, from the time your account is set up.

3) An important feature to look for is whether they do a backup of customer's files regularly. In case of a hard drive failure they can quickly restore your data from the backup copy. However, this doesn't mean you should never keep a copy of your own files. You should never rely on your web host's back up copy alone all the time.

4) Customer support is very important. To test it before opening an account, email them with a few sample questions to check the speed and quality of their responses. Although this doesn't guarantee that they will respond at the same speed if you do become a customer, this approach is rather accurate. 

Here is a list cheap web hosting providers that have been in business quite a while, are established, reliable and often mentioned on the Web...

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