A strong web presence is important to any business in this
competitive world, so creating a great website with minimal hassle is also
important. Finding the best host is integral to the process. Below are the five
top companies providing web hosting, focusing on popular opinion, price,
customer service and usability.
Go Daddy
Go Daddy is one of the most well-known web-hosts, with
affordable prices, and when it comes to features they are ranked high. Go
Daddy's popularity and web presence is down to the fact that they are the
world's leading domain name registrar. Their host service has over ten million
customers, so that speaks for itself. Whatever price you pay with Go Daddy, you
always get superb customer service and value for your money.
Features
Basic: Bandwidth - unlimited 10 GB of disk space - 24/7 FTP
access - 10 MySQL databases - 100 email accounts - Linux and Windows hosting -
Daily backups.
Included: Free setup - More than 50 applications - 24/7
customer support -Website statistics - Free search engine ad credits.
Control Panel
Their control panel offers a high degree of control over your
website, but you will need some time to learn how to navigate the number of
screens.
Go Daddy has the best customer service with many support
options; you can contact them through the web, email, or via phone and you will
always be greeted with a helpful response.
Price
Go Daddy has three different pricing options for their 4GH
(4th generation hosting) platform: Ultimate, deluxe, and economy. The most
popular is the deluxe plan, offering 150GB of disk space 25 MySQL database and
500 email addresses for $5.94 per month. The ultimate package is $8.49 per
month and the economy $4.24 per month.
iPage
iPage is an award winning global webhosting company with over
ten years of experience, delivering quality at affordable prices. Reliability
and flexibility are high on the list of priorities for iPage when it comes to
their customers. iPage offers host websites for business and personal use,
social and non-profit websites, serving over a million websites, and has over
1,500,000 domains under their management.
Features
Basic: Disk space - no set limit Bandwidth - unlimited
Domains - unlimited MySQL Databases – unlimited.
Included: Free online store Money-back guarantee Online
support system Chat, email and phone support.
Control Panel
The control panel is custom-built and flexible to control,
and has everything you will want and need. It also includes a drag and drop
site builder and step-by-step tutorials.
iPage supports a vast range of platforms such as Frontpage,
Expressions and Dreamweaver, to name a few. Security is high level, protecting
both visitors and you, with anti-spam scanning, SiteLock technology, malware
scans, and domain verification.
Price Ipage price package includes all the features on offer
for $3.50 a month including marketing tools.
HUB
Hub has been around for over ten years providing web hosting
services to businesses, individuals and non-profits. Hub offers free features
in a build-it-yourself style DIY service, which means it is fast and you can
have a web presence in minutes.
Features
Basic: Free domain registration/transfer Disk space -
unlimited Bandwidth - unlimited - Free blogging software - Subdomains –
unlimited - parked domains – unlimited - FREE Premium Web Builder MySQL -
databases – unlimited.
Included: 90-day
money-back guarantee - 24/7 US-based in-house support - CGI support - $75 in
Google Adwords Credits - $75 in Microsoft advertising ad-center Credits
Control Panel
Hub offers their customers cPanel, the most popular and best
control panels on the market today. cPanel comes with a lot of features: 1
click software installer, email protection, spam prevention, and easy file
management.
Customer support can be reached by the web, email or
telephone, and is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Price
Hub offers advanced features with e-commerce tools, secure
mail, and 90 day full money back guarantee and more, for a starting price of
$3.95 per month currently, down from $6.95 per month.
JustHost
Uptime, reliability and customer service places JustHost up
there with the best web hosts in the world. Uncomplicated web hosting makes it
easier for newbie webmasters with in-depth tutorials and a FAQs section to
source answers to questions fast.
Features
Basic: Free instant activation -- Disk space – unlimited --
Bandwidth – unlimited -- Number of domains – unlimited -- Sub-domains –
unlimited -- Unlimited FTP accounts -- Free for life domain name.
Included: Any time money-back guarantee -- Live support 24/7
-- Guaranteed 99.9% uptime -- Free search engine and social network ad credits.
Control Panel
JustHost uses the best control panel, the cPanel, which is
easy to use with graphic icons and well organized display panel. As with the
other top web hosts, JustHost offers superb customer service that can be
contacted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week all year round, via email, the web, and
telephone.
Price
JustHost is offering an affordable option at just $4.45 per
month giving you access to all the features that are listed above.
FatCow
FatCow endeavours to simplify web hosting, and is ranked
number 1 for small businesses. FatCow offers a domain hosting service called
the MiniMoo plan. The company likes to inject a sense of humour into naming its
products. This service cost $5 a year and includes, 1 email address, and domain
parking.
Features
Basic: Free domain name -- Disk space – unlimited --
Bandwidth – unlimited --Pop mailboxes – unlimited.
Included: 24/7 customer support -- Search engine and social
network credits -- 30-day money-back guarantee.
Control Panel
Fatcow, rather than using cPanel, has a feature-rich custom
control panel that is easier to use than cPanel, and more powerful, helping the
customer to build a quality website. Customer service can be contacted through
a chat style window on the web, by telephone, or email, 24 hours a day, 7 days
a week. There is also a FAQs section to obtain answers fast.
Price
FatCow still has the original FatCow plan web hosting
package, which is on offer from $3.67 a month.
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