Annual billing or monthly?

May 19th, 2009, 8:00 am

Which is recommended?

I am to get a hosting account from a company, which seems to be good for me, but I got to know that another company is offering annual billing for very low cost making certain economy, as with the first I would have to pay about five dollars per month, while the other gives account for ten buck a year...

Will you choose annual billing, providing both companies are stable and experienced?

[Daemonguy]

May 19th, 2009, 12:49 pm

Generally, when you 'pre-pay' the entire year, you are afforded either price breaks or some other incentive (such as additional help desk calls, bandwidth volumes, etc.).

I would pay the entire year. Course, I would pay for several years to more greatly enhance my ROI on a month to month basis.

May 20th, 2009, 2:37 pm

The worst case scenario is there's something wrong and you need to stop hosting with them. Ask them how that works - do you get refunded for unused time? Regardless, the costs you're talking about are low enough, you're not going to lose much either way.

[joebert]

May 21st, 2009, 11:26 am

I prefer monthly and I like to stay a month ahead.

Actually, I prefer annual billing for the reasons Daemonguy brought up, but monthly has worked better for me.

May 21st, 2009, 7:07 pm

Daemonguy wrote:

Generally, when you 'pre-pay' the entire year, you are afforded either price breaks or some other incentive (such as additional help desk calls, bandwidth volumes, etc.).

I would pay the entire year. Course, I would pay for several years to more greatly enhance my ROI on a month to month basis.

I usually pay annually as well, and I've been quite happy with doing this. There are always price breaks, and then I don't have to think about payment for a year either.

May 25th, 2009, 6:13 am

Annual is more stable. Make sure that host has no penalties for stopping membership, and go ahead. The good conditions billed yearly are offered by //removed, which I know from the own experience top be good.

May 29th, 2009, 5:56 am

Sometimes annual billing can be more profitable then monthly. Like when companies offer lower price for twelve months at once, and companies which are making each month in average cheaper.

Moderator Remark: Removed hosting company name; the OP didn't ask for you to spam hosts

May 31st, 2009, 3:35 am

Don't take more focus on the price,but the hosting's features.And the review of their customers.
Just choose the better one even its plan is not cheapest.

June 4th, 2009, 6:10 am

Depends on what company are you going to use. It should be stable enough.

June 10th, 2009, 6:21 am

Quote:

Depends on what company are you going to use. It should be stable enough.

I agree. For example, there is a company which is operating for several years and offers only annual billing - they should be considered as reliable and can be chosen. But if the company appeared yesterday and offers you to buy a plan for year or two - it would be better to avoid, however, not always.

June 16th, 2009, 6:42 am

Thanks.. The topic is pretty helpful. Thanks mods for watching it!

I have made a concurrent research about annual billing and came to a the same conclusion, as it is stated by Unnamed - the company should be experienced, and knowing dayana host is, I think getting their annually billed account is a correct step.

Once more - Thanks everyone.

June 21st, 2009, 8:38 am

The cost of hosting is so cheap that it doesn't really make sense to buy on a month to month plan for budget hosting anyway. Plus, you don't have to worry about any billing stuff, setup fees and it usually comes with added features.

Plus a lot of the hosting companies these days are going that route. I find it a lot easier.

August 25th, 2009, 8:42 am

RANTIZED, U R RIGHT
BUT ALWAYS THERE R HOSTING SITES THAT MAKE BETTER OFFERS FOR LONGER DURATION

[joebert]

August 25th, 2009, 8:48 am

It would be nice if hosting companies credited monthly plan holders with the difference once a year wouldn't it ?

August 30th, 2009, 9:19 am

Different people may hold different opinions. To compare with monthly payment plan, i think annual payment will be more stable .Generally speaking, for monthly payment there will often happen a client put hacking tools or anti-virus,deleted files and so on.These will affect the server is running and result in server instability, as well as monthly payment for beginners more.People who pay for annually usually have a stable amount of traffic, and want to do better of their web sites.