The top 5 hosting mistakes

1. Spamming. Sending spam email messages is a great way to lose your hosting account in a hurry.
    
2. Paying for less hosting performance than your website requires. If your high-traffic website shares hosting with hundreds of other sites on an overloaded server, its performance will suffer dramatically.
    
3. Paying for more hosting performance than you need. If your website only uses a fraction of the resources that you're paying for with your hosting plan, you're probably wasting money.
    
4. Using the wrong type of hosting. If you have a high-traffic website that performs poorly, you need to move up to a dedicated server. If you're hosting a commercial website on a free hosting server, you need to switch to paid hosting and get your own domain name in order to build credibility.
    
5. Choosing a hosting plan that comes with a huge setup fee. Great hosting can easily be found without having to pay setup fees at all. Shop around for the best deal.