It’s often the case overseas companies (in India, for example) can offer services and hosting packages for rates lower than you might find in, say, Canada, USA, UK or Australia. Lower overhead and staffing costs can make this possible.
While you may be tempted to sign up with a cheaper overseas company instead of a local or national host for your website hosting, consider all of the angles before you jump in.

• Will you be receiving the same level of quality
• Will you receive adequate support
• Are there any language/cultural barriers that may hinder verbal or written communicaion?
• What is the time zone difference and does it work with your schedule?
• The farther away the host server is from your customers the slower your website may load. It simply takes longer for the information (words, pictures, video, etc) to travel a longer distance.
• Will technical support be available
• Will sales or customer support be available
• Will help files / resources be available in your language?

We don’t suggest avoiding overseas companies –there are a number of great ones out there. Simply make sure you consider all of the facts and choose a Mac hosting company that best suits your unique needs.

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All hosting companies need to make money somehow – they can’t give away hosting for free to everyone or they’ll go out of business. If you choose the free hosting option there will always be a catch. For example,

with free Mac website hosting you may to have unsightly banner ads or pop ups or pop unders on your site, have to pay for other features at a later date, be limited in what you can put on your website (ie maybe you can’t sell products on your site), have to pay waay too much for your domain name, or possibly your free hosting will only be for a short duration as a loss leader to get you to commit to staying with the free hosting company for at least a year.

When searching for a good, affordable, quality mac website hosting company be sure to do your homework. You wouldn’t house your physical business in a seedy neighbourhood just because the monthly rent/lease is free, so why would you consider doing the same thing with your website?

Free mac website hosting companies come and go often since offering free hosting is a pretty unstable business model. If you’re serious about building a website that will actually be around for more than a couple months, be ready to pay for quality service from a reputable Mac hosting company.

If you can get good Mac website hosting that comes with its own mac website builder for the $30-$50 a month range you’re doing well. You could get away with paying $10-$20 a month, but you’ll be limited in the functionality those cheaper hosting companies offer.

There are many Mac website hosting companies to choose from ranging from the cheapest mac website hosting companies that are either free or just a few dollars a month (usually requires showing thir party ads on your site) through to the most expensive which can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars a month depending on your website hosting needs.

Most Mac users who want to build a basic personal or small business website on their macintosh can get away with paying from $10 to $50 a month depending on the types of website features desired. If you’re building a personal site, try to stay under $30 a month if you can. If you’re building a small business site you can get away with spending around $30 a month but be sure you don’t cheap out and sacrifice the professional look or functionality or ecommerce or email marketing or search engine marketing you’ll need to adequately serve your clients and market your services online effectively.