{"id":6,"date":"2006-06-08T06:06:42","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T12:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-07-11T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T21:59:34","slug":"non-transparent-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=6","title":{"rendered":"Non-transparent costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seo.mhvt.net\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/seo\/search_engine_optimization.gif\" alt=\"search engine optimization\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nBeware of non-transparent costs!  Right, they don&#8217;t have hidden costs.  Or they would be penalized by the FCC.  But web hosting providers do use obscure expressions to confuse online shoppers.  The most common non-transparent cost (NTC) is &#8230;  It&#8217;s actually the monthly fee.  We all know the monthly fee stated on the website is for a one-year sign up.  Or&#8230;  Actually, most web hosting providers indicate the monthly fee for a two-year sign-up.  Yes.  We were once deceived.  So always doubt that the monthly fee stated by the web hosting provider is for a one-year sign-up.  <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Another non-hidden but non-transparent cost is the number of sub-domains available.  Even if they indicate that they have an unlimited number of sub-domains, that doesn&#8217;t mean you can use them all.  Especially, if your web hosting provider supports vDeck, a control panel, chances that the number of sub-domains that you could use is obscurely stated are very high.  Every sub-domain must be pointed to by a folder inside of your public html folder.  And they often impose a restriction on this number.  And yes&#8230;  We were once deceived.  It&#8217;s not unlimited, 20 or even 5, but the number of free sub-domains that we found out could use is only 3!<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"..\/web_hosting\/web_hosting\/web_hosting_2.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mac\/non_transparent_costs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"mac\/non_transparent_costs.jpg\" alt=\"Web Hosting Solution\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beware of non-transparent costs! Right, they don&#8217;t have hidden costs. Or they would be penalized by the FCC. But web hosting providers do use obscure expressions to confuse online shoppers. The most common non-transparent cost (NTC) is &#8230; It&#8217;s actually &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/?p=6\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-hosting-solution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mhvt.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}