Nowadays there are several hosting companies available from where you can host your website. Most of the companies do offer Shared Web Hosting, Reseller Web Hosting, VPS Hosting and Dedicated Web Hosting. Among all hosting options shared web hosting is very popular because it’s cheapest way to host your website.

But my friend wait a minute, big and small web hosting companies do something un-ethical practice and hide few things from you. And this is common even with most popular web hosting companies.

Below are few practice that hosting companies always hide or practice without letting you know:

1)      Block Search Engines though hidden Robots.txt file: Believe me or not but this is 110% hard truth. If you hosted several websites on one shared hosting account, getting good amount of traffic then most probably the hosting company will secretly will put hidden Robots.txt file on every websites. And amazing part is that you won’t find the Robots.txt file when you try to located  it on FTP (website). Read here how to use robots.txt.

Now if you try to contact to the web hosting support team then they will raise their hand and tell you to generate a ticket. This is not going to help you, they will take couple of days and secretly remove the hidden robots.txt file.   The best option would be to not to wait for their support, just upload fresh Robots.txt file and get it fixed in few minutes.

2)      Can send up to 150 email in an hour: During festive season like new year, Xmas we all send greetings mail to our friends, relatives and clients. And if you hosted several websites including your clients and if at any moment it cross beyond 150 mail per hour suddenly a situation will occur where you won’t be able to send any mail.

Now if you contact to customer support, they will give you a link of terms and conditions. If you argue with them then in couple of hours they will activate outgoing mail.

3)      Database Error: Nowadays CMS is getting popularity and we all prefer to host website in top notch CMS like wordpress. If you are a webmaster or seo expert spending good amount of time online only then you can notice that your wordpress site (or any other CMS using mysql database) goes down for 2-10 minutes every month. And as soon you start get worrying, create tickets you will get mail from customer support saying that there is no such issue found. Database is working perfectly.

Believe me or not big hosting and small hosting companies do this practice, read one of such hosting company review here, cpwebhosting.