Quick Review/Comparison of Some Major Web Hosting Services - GoDaddy, Webhostingpad, Hostmonster and Hostgator
Posted on December 19, 2007
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With the internet being so much a part of life these days, understanding how web sites work seems to be something we should all be getting involved with. Putting up a website is a great way to learn about the web, and it also creates a “digital fingerprint” for you. Imagine, when you go for a job interview, and they ask you about your web skills, just tell them “go to www…. and see for yourself”. Very powerul persuasion.
There are many different ways that you can establish your web presence, and ther are many tools to assist you with this, including web site creation systems, blogging engines, forum systems and the like. But first you need to pick a domain name and a place to host your website (a webhost).
Is this expensive you ask? Actually not really. For well under $100/yr, you can establish a powerful web presence. Some webhosts like GoDaddy even will host your website free (albeit with ads) with a domain name registration.
So, how do you pick a web host? I have scoured the web sites of some major hosting companies and have come up with a quick review/comparison. Hopefully it will help narrow your choices down.
- This is what I use for this website, Over 25 Million domains under management!
- Number 1 domain registrar in the country (or world?)
- Cheapest Plan is $3.59/month for 12 months
- Deluxe Plan at $6.29/month for 12 months
- Free setup
- Lots of higher end plans available (dedicated servers, etc.)
- Lots of coupon codes available to cut costs
- 100 GB Space
- 1,000 GB Transfer
- Unlimited web sites can be hosted under one account (I use this feature extensively!)
- 25 MySQL databases
- Fast, reliable, good responsiveness
- $25 Google, $50 Microsoft ad center
- Supports all the major tools: Wordpress, Joomla, SimpleMachines Forum, etc.
- Secure and ecommerce ready
- Would recommend for individuals/small businesses who want to host a relatively small number of websites on one account (MySQL database limitation). However, GoDaddy.com is very scalable, so you can host bigger, more complex high traffic web sites here too, but I would recommend a higher end account for that purpose.
- Seems to have one of the best overall deals going now
- $4.95/month for 2 yrs committment
- Free domain name
- 1,200 GB Space
- 12,000 GB transfer
- Unlimited MySQL databases
- Unlimited email accounts
- Unlimited web sites can be hosted under one domain (the unlimited MySQL databases would be of great help here!)
- Security and ecommerce support
- $30 Google and $25 Yahoo advertising credits
- Good application support Wordpress/Mambo/Joomla/etc
- Would recommend for individuals/small business who want to host a bunch of websites on one account
- Top 10 hosting company, with over 700,000 domains hosted
- $7.95/month for mid level plan - no time committments!
- $4.95/month for cheapest plan
- High end plans available (dedicated server/etc.)
- 600 GB storage
- 6,000 GB transfer
- Unlimited web sites per hosting account
- Unlimited MySQL databases
- Unlimited Email accounts
- Full featured application support (Wordpress/Joomla/PHPlist/etc.)
- Security and Ecommerce support
- Recommend for individuals and small businesses who want to host multiple domains on one server. Seems to be highly scalable, so should support high traffic web sites as well
- Over 200,000 domains hosted
- $5.95/month for 24 months
- $7.95/month for 3 months + $30 setup is cheapest plan
- 600 GB storage
- 6,000 GB transfer
- Unlimited web sites per hosting account
- 100 MySQL databases
- Unlimited Email accounts
- Full featured application support (Wordpress/Joomla/PHPlist/etc.)
- Security and Ecommerce support
- $50 Google and $50 Yahoo advertising credits
- Recommend for individuals and small businesses who want to host multiple domains on one account, but watch out for MySQL limitation
A very good general review can also be found here.
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I hosted with 247-host.com for shared hosting as well as reseller hosting before switching to my own dedicated server few months back.
In my 3 years with them I never felt that web hosting has issues in it as well. It was a total peace of mind, comfortable and smooth going. Now that I run my own dedicated server, I realize that the technicians with 247-host were well versed with server configuration and management. They could reach the issue related to database, security, server load management very quick and resolve it even quicker.
Normally they had been responding in 4 to 8 hours which I think is pretty good if the host has large number of customers to tackle. Technical support in term of response as well as know how has been very good with them.
I still cherish my stay with them.
Some how I have got convinced that 247-host.com is one of the best hosts in the business out there. I’ve been with them for two years now and thus feel that my conviction is supported with some real time experience as well.
Astonishingly, from my first day to date there have not been any moments of frustration or desperation. This is despite the reason that during these years there have been some adjustment to my site needing changed configuration of the server and thus move from one server to another was also involved. There has never been nasty connectivity issues; they actively keep me updated about their progress resolving the issue.
The sales/support staff are a group of friendly, knowledgeable, and anxious to help. I’d recommend this host to anyone.
I’ve used Hostgator, Hostmonster , Webhostingpad.com and godaddy for my own sites or for my clients site.All of them were pretty good. Hostgator has excellent technical support. Hostmonster & Webhostingpad.com offer good price packages.