Too often I get clients in who are very concerned with ensuring they get a cheap web hosting plan and they forget to think that the website is the first impression they will have on many potential clients. Of course it is smart to want a deal on your web hosting service, but it is another to sacrifice quality for a cheap offer. Many of these really inexpensive hosts are unreliable and may not always have your site available for viewing by a user. Other times there are sites on the server with your site that are up to unsavory business practices which may reflect back to your site when it comes to how the search engines see you.
A great alternative for these clients is to shop around and find the best deal on dedicated web hosting. A dedicated server is more reliable for your site and will have a unique location, which will keep you from being lost in the crowd of sites that want really cheap hosting for those websites, which pollute the web with information garbage. Plus you can still find affordable dedicated servers so that you do not have to spend a fortune if you take the time to shop around and find companies, which truly want to give a good hosting experience to you.