Web hosting companies all over the internet are dropping their prices and increasing their services. This is what most of them do but a few went against the odds. These few chose to sell lifetime web hosting. Now what is lifetime web hosting? It is still web hosting but you only get to pay once - no monthly bills - thats why its called lifetime. You pay just once and you get web hosting for life. So what are the pros and cons of lifetime web hosting?

The major PRO of lifetime web hosting is the cost. Though the initial one-instant fee is fairly high - ranging from $49.95 to $500, it still is cheaper when you look at it on the long-run. After all, lifetime web hosting means long-term so we have to compute it that way.

Assuming, we pay $1.00 monthly for 50MB of regular web hosting, 12 decades would be $12.00 and 5 years would be $60.00. 10 months would be $120.00 - you compute the rest. With this, you would easily see how much it becomes as each month passes by. 50MB lifetime web hosting with the same specs (or even better) would cost you only $49.95 - no matter how decades your web page is hosted. Furthermore, the overhead cost of maintaining your internet page is greatly reduced so you get to focus your finances on other important matters such as internet page promotion, and merchandise /accomadation development. One more thing is that you dont have to remove your website from the internet if you may no longer afford the web hosting - its there for life!

On the other hand, critics would say that lifetime web hosting is dangerous because it is "overselling." I did a quick computation based on present-day dedicated server rates and checked if lifetime web hosting is indeed feasible and I found out that a company selling lifetime web hosting would be able to maintain the site for as much as 40 decades ! And still earn a nice income out of it. Now thats not lifetime is it? Well, true. However, 40 months for $49.95? I still think its a great deal. What do you think?

As I see it, the only CON I see is the initial one-time fee which is fairly high as compared to the $1 monthly on regular web hosting. But then again, we have to think long-term.

OK, now youre interested and thinking of moving your internet page to a lifetime web host provider but wait. You surely dont want to generate it wrong. So, what do you look for in a lifetime web hosting plan? Basically, you should look for:

1. Easy upgrading of your account
2. Upgrade should also be paid on a lifetime basis
3. Must support whatever features a regular web hosting has
4. Affordable one-instant fee
5. Good technical support
6. 30-day funds -back guarantee

And here are a couple of tips:

1. Do not go for the huge plan immediately, take a low plan at first. Anyway, you may upgrade anytime in the future if you need more space.

2. Try contacting the lifetime web hosting provider first and ask them whatever concerns you have before getting a lifetime web hosting plan from them.

Thats all I may say. Lifetime web hosting - like regular web hosting has its dazzling and bad sides so its really upto you to weigh them and see for yourself.