1 dollar web hosting: smart ways to use rock-bottom plans

What you actually get

At a dollar a month, hosting sounds almost magical, but the bargain has boundaries. Expect shared servers, limited CPU minutes, tight inode quotas, and promotional pricing that renews higher. If your site is a simple landing page or a prototype, that’s fine. Just verify included essentials: SSL, email forwarding, one-click installs, and backups. Without those, cheap becomes costly.

When it makes sense

Choose it for short-term campaigns, student projects, or learning the stack. Avoid it for revenue-critical stores, spiky traffic, or heavy media. Latency and support queues can stretch, so plan around them with caching and a lightweight theme.

• Audit the fine print: renewal rate, storage type, monthly bandwidth, and fair-use rules.
• Prefer hosts with daily backups, free Let's Encrypt SSL, and honest uptime reporting.
• Use a CDN and image compression to cut load and resource use.
• Keep exit options: offsite backups, portable CMS, and domain registered elsewhere.

Start small, measure, then graduate to VPS or managed hosts when metrics justify it. The real win is treating the plan as a stepping stone, not a ceiling.