If you're comparing shared hosting companies you're not really comparing anything at all. They all have the same business model -- stuff several hundred to seve

If you're comparing shared hosting companies you're not really comparing anything at all. They all have the same business model -- stuff several hundred to several thousand sites on each server, advertise unlimited resources but terminate any site that uses more than the average. If you want to handle more than a trickle of traffic, you need dedicated resources -- that means $20 a month or so for a VPS. Once you switch you'll never go back. Having your site operating at the whim of some resource checking script will seem ridiculous. The idea of paying for "10 domains" or "20 mailboxes" or "100 subdomains" will make you laugh since you now realize these things are nothing more than few lines of text in a configuration file -- not actual scarce resources to be portioned out at different fees. The idea of not being able to upgrade your language versions or install your own packages will seem appalling. It's worth the couple extra dollars a month.