If you are lucky you will find a company that offers free installations and assistance with pre-installable forums, cms or traffic statistics and some even give you a free domain. The web hosts can provide such cheap prices without compromising in service quality by offering what is called Shared Web Hosting.
However there are certain factors that are often overlooked or not deemed important to consider when making a hosting decision. This factor has nothing to do with the functionality of your website. Rather, it determines how the search engines treat your website.
Which all brings me back to what is Affordable Web Hosting? I have my pages hosted at GVO and I pay a higher monthly cost than if I used certain other cheaper hosts.
MySQL, Perl, Frontpage Extension, all of the features that you get with any decent web hosting account. You'll get them here. Like I said, these feature are pretty much the same everywhere, so don't worry about them.
Write down a plan for your Shared Web Hosting UK. What will you website need to operate your business. Will you use graphics, banners, videos and what will you need your web host to provide.
Bandwidth (or data transfer as it is also known) relates to how many times your website is visited. Each file your page is constructed of all adds to the data transfer. If you have a page that is 2kb, with two pictures each of 199kb and you have a data transfer allowance of 1GB per month then you could have around 2600 visitors each month. That's about 87 visitors per day. The likelihood is you will have more than one page, and will want more than two pictures on some - if not all - pages. If you exceed your bandwidth then your provider will charge you a lot more for the excess, or will disable your website entirely. So the more bandwidth that a web host offers the better.
Buying a web hosting plan doesn't need to be expensive. Research the companies you are interested in and read customer reviews. Make sure you buy the appropriate amount of disk space and bandwidth. Shop around for the best deal before making a decision.