The term "budget web hosting" can have a variety of connotations depending upon who is interpreting it. For some webmasters or small businesses, a web hosting company that sells its plan for as much as $10 a month may be classified as a budget hosting company. However, we at AWHD realize that $10 a month can in no way be categorized as budget even for a small business. This page is therefore meant for webmasters (and of course for small businesses as well) who are on a really tight budget and want to save as much as they can on their web hosting costs.

Keeping in mind the above consideration, we have only listed those web hosting companies on this page that offer their plans for less than $5 a month. Best of all, many of these hosting companies also offer a free domain name, the average price for which is in the range of $10 a month. Some people mistakenly take the wrong notion that expensive means better under all circumstances. However, if you do a little survey of the major hosting companies, you will find that there are plenty of them that charge you a hefty sum of money and still don't give you the features that others are selling at one third the price. We therefore strongly advise you to stay alert against these kind of companies that are there only to rip you off your hard earned money.

For example, you might have heard of the company Register.com, a company that basically started as a domain name registrar and later expanded its sphere of services to include web hosting as well. If you visit their homepage, you will find that their basic hosting package is available for $14.95 a month. Contrast this with the companies listed on this page such as iPage, FatCow, WebHostingPad etc. The first two of the companies mentioned above are selling their hosting plan only for $4.5 and $4.83 respectively. WebHostingPad, on the other hand, takes the notion of budget hosting one step further by offering its plan for $1.99 a month only. This is 7.5 times less than the price of Register.com and is probably the cheapest hosting plan we have ever seen. And the best part is that it does not even compromise the features offered or the quality of service.