Web hosting Cup

If you are starting a new website and are serious about it what kind of web hosting are you going to choose for your website? Is it Free web hosting or Cheap web hosting or a standard web hosting from a reputable company? If you want to earn money from your website and are serious about it, be it a E commerce online store, a site for Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising campaigns, a site to earn ad revenue from displaying banners ads or text ads like Google adwords or any website that is going to be launched to earn money, try to choose the best web hosting provider to host your site.

It is because most of these Free and Cheap web hosting providers are set up with the intention to make some quick money and don’t have what it takes to endure the competition in the web hosting business. Many people start a free web hosting site by buying web space from worthless web hosting companies or by signing up as a reseller at one of the many infamous free web hosting providers out there. Here you may get how can a company earn money from giving out free web hosting. Well, I assure you there are many ways to earn good amount of money from offering free web hosting and I am not going to discuss it here (will come up with an article soon as to how can a free web hosting company make money). And the fact is that because these kind of web hosts lack what is called dedication, most of them are shut down over night and many of them fail to provide to good uptime (even though most of these web hosts advertise 99.5% or 99.9% uptime).

In my opinion, some of the free web hosts (at least they call themselves free web hosts) out there aren’t free web hosts at all. They say they offer free web hosting and then ask you to pay them a yearly or one time fee to activate features like MySql databases and some crucial addons. In my opinion, these companies announcing themselves as free web hosting providers, is a complete joke. I would never go for this kind of web hosts. If you spend some time and investigate about the real uptime of these companies, you would come to know many of them are miserable failures in keeping their claim that they offer you 99.9% uptime. So never go for for a free web host if you are serious about your website. Also I hear, some of the cheap web hosts out there are good enough and only have a couple of horror stories in their history but I have never tried, since I don’t like taking any chances. Here, I must admit I signed up at a new web host which offered huge promotional discount. Although I am kind of happy with their service I soon moved all of my websites to Hostgator web hosting. Hostgator is the first one among my list of best web hosting providers out there.

If you don’t have enough money to pay your hosting bills every month, you may try your luck with free web hosting or cheap web hosting, providing at any time you might become a victim of bad web hosting services. But if you can pay around $10 a month, go for some standard web hosting providers like Hostgator web hosting or Hostmonster web hosting. At the moment I would recommend Hostgator web hosting to anyone that approaches me for a good web host. But don’t forget even Hostgator.com has some bad reviews under their belt, for that matter any web host I know of has some bad reviews. You can check the reviews of many web hosting providers on famous forums out there. So select a good domain, choose a good web host and start developing your web sites. Don’t forget one thing “Good Content is king” or “Good Features are kings”.

Hostmonster review

Hostmonster is another cheap and reliable web hosting provider along with Hostgator web hosting service. It has been serving thousands of business and personal websites with its quality and reliable web hosting solutions since 1996. The company is now hosting more than 350,000 domains. With its quality, reliability and good customer support, it has earned respect in the web hosting providers sector.

Hostmonster offers one web hosting package with UNLIMITED disk space and UNLIMITED (monthly) bandwidth (hostmonster used to offer 300gb disk space and 3000gb monthly bandwidth on the same package) at $6.95 a month if you are going to choose 24 month plan and at $7.95 a month for 12 month plan. However, if you choose any plan smaller than yearly plan (either 3 months or 6 months) you will have to pay $8.95 a month as well as $30 setup fee. However, at times you can also get the 24 month plan at $4.95 a month and 12 month plan at $5.95 a month. The trick to get the packages at these prices are to not sign up at the first time. I mean, you are all set to sign up with them and enter your domain in the respective field (step one of the sign up process) and click next. On the next page you will have to enter all your details (account information) and have to choose payment option either credit card or PayPal (step 2 of the sign up process). You have to fill up a big form to complete your sign up process. So, now what you do is without filling this form and paying you again go to their home page by clicking on “home” button in the navigation bar. Then at times they show you this offer by striking off $6.95 and placing $4.95 on their home page. Check Hostgator Review here, ANhosting Review here, LunarPages Review here, Blue Host Review here, Now you can get the 24 month hosting plan at $4.95 a month and 12 month hosting plan at $5.95 a month. If that trick doesn’t work, do the same until step 2 and start a conversation with their live support regarding any doubts you may have. Once you are done with the live chat, again go to home page without paying for the plan. In all probability, you should see the discount offer now and now complete the sign up process by paying the discount price.

Now, back to the features offered by Hostmonster.com web hosting company. As we have said earlier they are now offering UNLIMITED disk space and UNLIMITED bandwidth for every account with them. Their features include UNLIMITED Hosting Space, UNLIMITED Site Bandwidth, Host UNLIMITED Domains, Unlimited Pop/Imap Email Accounts, SSH Access (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats, CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MYSQL, Front Page Extensions, Free Domain Forever, Free Site Builder, Best Support in the Industry, Bulletin Board (Message Forum), Form-mail Script, Fantastico, PHP Nuke, Guestbook, Web Blogs/Wordpress/b2evolution, Mailing Lists, Image Galleries/Coppermine, Poll and Survey Software, Moodle, Mambo and Joomla, phpForm Generator, PHP 5, Perl 5, Python, Ruby/Ruby On Rails v1.1, Support For Custom PHP.INI Files, Javascript/DHTML, Flash/Shockwave, Help Center/Support Ticket, Free Domain Name or Domain Transfer, Instant Setup, Free Site Promotion, Free 1 Click Installer For Over 50 Scripts, Free SiteBuilder with Templates, 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee, $50 Free Yahoo Credits, $50 Free Google Credits and more. They would give you free domain name as long as you are hosted with them (you need not pay them anything for this domain as long as you stay with them). You can host as many sites as you want. They give you 100 MySQL databases and 100 PostgreSQL Databases. With them, you would get latest Cpanel to manage you account and websites. And also their Cpanel is very easy to use and navigate to the features.

I once used Hostmonster’s Live support and the experience was good, the guy who chatted with me knew the business well and he answered all of my questions very clearly. I used their support ticket system only once and I can say their support was up to the mark. They can communicate well and they show their efficiency when answering your questions, doubts or any problems. The minimum plan you have to choose during sign up is 3 months, you have to pay three months’ price in advance unlike hostgator web hosting service, where you can choose to pay month after month. I heard a couple of cases where Hostmonster suspended the accounts of their customers for uploading some copyrighted material through their account. Of course, same is the case with any other web hosting provider, please be careful about copyrighted material uploaded by either you or your website’s visitors. And coming to if the web hosting service provided by Hostmonster is good or bad, I should say, it is one of the best out there. I have been with Hostmonster web hosting service for over an year and they never let me down. Another good web hosting provider is Hostgator. These two are the best at the moment, at least in my opinion.

So why wait any further? Click on the banner below, go to their site and sign up with them for your web hosting. But don’t forget to choose the 24 month plan, that way you will save more. Hostmonster Rocks.

Hostgator web hosting is definitely one of the best web hosting providers. The company was founded in 2002 in Boca Raton, Florida, the USA. It is one of the world’s top 10 largest web hosting providers, hosting more than 1,000,000 domains. They offer Shared hosing, Reseller hosting, Dedicated servers (fully managed) for you.

Hostgator web hosting shared hosting comes in three packages called Hatchling, Baby, Swamp respectively. They offer both Windows web hosting and Linux web hosting. All of their web hosting packages comes with a 45-day, hassle-free, full refund, same day, money back guarantee. They guarantee you 99.9% uptime on each and everyone of their shared web hosting plans. Also they say on their website that if you ever have a problem with their regular support just ask them that your ticket should be assigned to Brent (the owner of Hostgator) himself and then he will personally try to solve your problem. Now, that is somewhat outstanding! And I forgot to mention, with hostgator you can pay your hosting bill monthly (you are not required to pay bulk for 3,6 months or yearly). But I suggest you go for their 3 year plan which saves you huge. Also remember, they also provide you with a discount coupon (usually 20% off on initial payment only) almost every month. The Discount coupon code is advertised on their home page. Using that promo coupon code for a long duration web hosting package (say 3 years), you can save even more (don’t worry about paying them all at one time, they won’t disappoint you with their service also you have a 45-day money back guarantee).

Their basic shared web hosting plan is called Hatchling which starts at $8.95 a month (if you are going to pay monthly). However, if you are going to pay for 3 years right now, you would only be charged $4.95 per month (1 year advance payment @ $6.95 and 2 years advance payment @ $5.95). They advertise on their site that their sharing Hatching plan is $4.95 a month, BUT KEEP IN MIND THAT THE PRICE IS ONLY APPLICABLE IF YOU ARE GOING TO PAY THREE MONTHS’ WEB HOSTING PRICE AT ONE TIME (in advance), which is a big saving compared to $8.95 a month, when you are going to pay month after month. This Hatchling plan offers you 350gb of disk space and 3000gb of monthly bandwidth, both of which are more than enough if your website is just a personal one or a small online store (over 95% websites on the internet belong to this category). But the disadvantages of this plan is you can only host one website with this plan. You wouldn’t be able to add any addon/parked domains thereby hosting more sites with this plan. This plan is strictly for only those people WHO WANT TO HOST ONLY ONE SITE. Also some of the unavailable features of this plan include Anonymous FTP, Chillsoft ASP, Private SSL etc. Except the above this plans offers you pretty much everything you want from a quality, feature-packed web hosting provider. You can create as many sub domains as you want. But since you can’t host more than one site with this hosting plan, I suggest you shouldn’t go for it if you are thinking of hosting more sites on one hosting account.

Hostgator’s another hosting plan is Baby, which is a larger plan than the above plan called Hatchling. It starts at $9.95 a month (if you are going to pay monthly). However, if you are going to pay for 3 years in advance, you would get this plan at $7.95 a month (2 years advance payment @ $8.95). This sharing plan offers 600gb disk space and 6000gb bandwidth, which are a lot more than you would need. Also you can add unlimited addon domains on this account, which means you can host unlimited domains as long as you don’t run out of your disk space. This is a good plan for almost anyone. At the moment I am using this plan, although I am thinking of upgrading to a higher plan of for a dedicated server. The only features that are not available with this plan are Anonymous FTP and Chillsoft ASP, which are not much important and are only required for some special purposes. Almost all other features are included with this plan, some of which are Site Builder, 24×7 Support, Instant Backups, No Contract, 99.9% Uptime guarantee, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee, Free / Instant Setup, Addon / Parked Domains UNLIMITED, Sub Domains UNLIMITED, FTP Accounts UNLIMITED, MySQL Databases UNLIMITED, CGI, PHP4 & 5, Ruby On Rails, SSH, Perl, Python, SSI, Cron, FrontPage, Curl, GD, Image Magick, Streaming Audio/Video, Free Module Installation, POP3 Accounts UNLIMITED, Web Mail, E-mail Alias, Auto Responders, Mailing Lists, Catch Alls, Spam Assassin, Mail Forwarding, IMAP Support, SMTP, Latest cPanel, Fantastico, Soholaunch, Hotlink Protection, IP Deny Manager, Custom Error Pages, Instant Blogs, Instant Portals, Instant PHPnuke, Instant Forums, Instant Guestbook, Instant Counter, Instant FormMail, Redirect URL, Web Based File Manager, PassWord Protected Directories, phpMyAdmin, AWStats, Webalizer, Raw Log Manager, Referrer Logs, Error Logs, Shared SSL, Private SSL, Agora Cart, osCommerce, ZenCart, Cube Cart etc. I suggest you go for this plan or the higher one called Swamp.

The third and final shared web hosting plan offered by Hostgator web hosting is “Swamp”. This plan offers 1000gb disk space and unlimited bandwidth. This is the best deal from Hostgator.com as far as shared web hosting plans are concerned. The plan starts at $14.95 a month if you are going to make payment month after month. But if you make 3 years advance payment, you will get the plan at $12.95 a month and if you make 2 years advance payment, you would get this plan at $13.95. This plan offers every feature that is advertised on their site including Anonymous FTP and Chillsoft ASP. Site Builder, 24×7 Support, Instant Backups, No Contract, 99.9% Uptime guarantee, 45 Day Money Back Guarantee, Free / Instant Setup, Addon / Parked Domains UNLIMITED, Sub Domains UNLIMITED, FTP Accounts UNLIMITED, Anonymous FTP, MySQL Databases UNLIMITED, CGI, PHP4 & 5, Ruby On Rails, SSH, Perl, Chilisoft ASP, Python, SSI, Cron, FrontPage, Curl, GD, Image Magick, Streaming Audio/Video, Free Module Installation, POP3 Accounts UNLIMITED, Web Mail, E-mail Alias, Auto Responders, Mailing Lists, Catch Alls, Spam Assassin, Mail Forwarding, IMAP Support, SMTP, Latest cPanel, Fantastico, Soholaunch, Hotlink Protection, IP Deny Manager, Custom Error Pages, Instant Blogs, Instant Portals, Instant PHPnuke, Instant Forums, Instant Guestbook, Instant Counter, Instant FormMail, Redirect URL, Web Based File Manager, PassWord Protected Directories, phpMyAdmin, AWStats, Webalizer, Raw Log Manager, Referrer Logs, Error Logs, Shared SSL, Private SSL, Agora Cart, osCommerce, ZenCart, Cube Cart etc. are the features that you are going to make use of with this plan. This is the plan I suggest for you for multiple websites as well as to grab the unlimited bandwidth offer.

All of the Hostgator shared web hosting plans come with latest version cPanel (the most famous as well as widely used control panel in the world), and Fantastico feature: the script installer software with which you can install over 52 scripts easily, with a few clicks. Among the famous scripts are Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, Gallery, phpBB2, SMF, Mambo, Geeklog, osTicket, Perldesk, Cubecart, Zen Cart, Advanced Poll and many more. They also give you free website builder with which you can create stylish websites in minutes. You would also get to download more than 4,500 free flash templates, using which you can make great-looking sites in minutes. If you are moving your website from your old web hosting company, they will also help you in moving, in fact they would handle the entire process for you if you request them. Also you would get 45 day money back guarantee and 24/7 technical support. Their support system is the one that I forgot about mentioning. I once had a couple of doubts regarding statistics option on my account and about payment. I couldn’t find statistics software on my cPanel and asked them to activate it. The support guy not only said it was already available on my account but showed the navigation to go to my stats (he said something like ” I clicked on *** and was then able to see the stats for your *******.com site). I was really impressed and am still impressed with their support. I have never had any problems with them, but even if you find any problem with their service, don’t panic! Just use their support to resolve your problem. ALMOST ALL THE WEB HOSTING PROVIDERS HAVE A COUPLE OF BAD REVIEWS OUT THERE. THE BEST I HAVE SEEN SO FAR IS HOSTGATOR ALSO IT IS THE WEB HOST WHICH HAS LESS BAD REVIEWS. IF YOU WANT BEST WEB HOSTING EXPERIENCE, TAKE MY WORD AND PLEASE GO FOR THEM. So what else are you looking for click on the banner below and go to their website and sign up for your desired plan. Try to take a longer duration plan, which would save you a lot also don’t forget to use the coupon code. The coupon code for May, 2008 is “SPRING”.

Namecheap domain registrar new discount coupon code for the month May 2008 is “MAYFLOWERS”. Register any .com or some other TLD domains at just $8.41 by using this coupon code (normally each new domain registration at namecheap now is $9.29). So just put MAYFLOWERS in the discount coupon code box when you register a new domain and get each new domain at $8.41

And if you are looking for best web hosting service, please use Hostgator: the best hosting provider I have seen so far. Use the code “SPRING” to get 20% off on your initial order for any hosting package. That means the longer package you buy (in terms of time, like 1 year or 2 years…) the bigger your saving will be. Click the banner below which takes you to their web site and buy your desired hosting package at the best web hosting provider Hostgator.