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Web Hosting Company Comparisons
Top Rated and Tested Hosting CompaniesWe recommend any of these top 5. Which one to chose? They're all pretty close, but for starting out, and shared hosting, HostGator is our top pick. We've been testing them for 8 years. They have lots of support, including online pages, a community, 24x7 toll-free phone support (usually a 10 to 15 minute wait), and is very reliable. Plus they have both dedicated and virtual servers to grow into if/when you outgrow a shared hosting environment. Updated March 27, 2023 Click on the name of each hosting company for more current information!
Web Hosting Companies That Have Good Packages,
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Host |
GoDaddy |
Midphase |
Globat |
Ipower /Ipower-web |
Web hosting buzz |
Start Logic |
ePow Host |
eMax Hosting |
NZ WebIT .com |
| Rating | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
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Storage |
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Bandwidth |
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PHP |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
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MySQL dbs |
1 / 10 |
unlimited |
unlimited |
YES |
unlimited |
YES |
20 |
unlimited |
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| CGI bin | NO / YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | YES | |
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FP extensions |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
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Phone support |
24x7 |
YES toll free |
NO |
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YES |
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Web Live Chat support |
24x7 |
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YES |
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24x7 |
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Email support |
24x7 |
YES |
YES |
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24x7 |
YES |
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Forum support |
NO |
YES |
NO |
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Fantastico |
YES |
YES |
NO |
NO |
YES |
NO |
YES |
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Web control panel |
unknown |
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homegrown |
YES |
cpanel |
YES |
cpanel |
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Webstats |
Yes, And a site traffic analyzer is available for $1.95/month extra |
Awstats, Webalizer |
AWstats |
YES |
YES |
YES |
Webalizer |
YES |
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SSL |
with certificate: $29.95/yr |
YES (free installation) |
NO / YES / YES |
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YES |
YES |
YES |
YES shared |
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SSH |
NO |
NO |
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YES |
YES |
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YES |
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Email accounts |
100 / 500 |
unlimited |
unlimited |
500 |
unlimited |
unlimited |
500 |
unlimited |
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Auto responders |
unknown |
YES |
??? |
unlimited |
unlimited |
unlimited |
500 |
unlimited |
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Catchall |
unknown |
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??? |
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YES |
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unlimited |
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Forwarding |
50 / unlimited |
YES |
??? |
unlimited |
unlimited |
unlimited |
500 |
unlimited |
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Mailing lists |
NO |
YES |
NO |
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unlimited |
unknown |
20 |
unlimited |
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| AntiSpam | YES | YES filters | Spam Assassin | YES | Spam Assassin | ||||
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Shopping cart |
NO |
OS Commerce, Agora |
NO / YES / YES |
OS Commerce, Agora and PayPal |
OS Commerce, Agora |
YES |
YES |
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Domains |
1 |
1 |
NO / $12ea/ $12ea |
1 |
YES |
YES |
5 |
1 |
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Subdomains |
0 |
0 |
NO / $12ea/ $12ea |
5 |
unlimited |
YES |
35 |
unlimited |
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SSI |
unknown |
YES |
NO |
YES |
YES |
YES |
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YES |
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Cron |
NO |
YES |
NO |
YES |
YES |
unknown |
YES |
YES |
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Raw logs |
NO |
YES |
NO |
YES |
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YES |
YES |
YES |
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Scripts |
Yes - many see website |
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CGI |
YES PHP Nuke, Blogger, Bulletin board, chat, Poll, X7 Gallery, etc. |
Many, both cgi and PHP |
NO |
YES see |
YES |
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| Other | jsp support, xoops, php-nuke, etc. | Link checker; Content plugins: news, jokes, comics, more | Streaming audio and video, |
| Web Host Company | Date | Reason | Comments |
| ADDR.com | February 2005 | Downtime was double that of other web hosting companies, as measured by Hyperspin (2% vs. 1%). Few features compared to similarly priced plans at other hosting companies. | I used them for at least several years. They rarely, if ever improved their plan, or adapted to changing business conditions. They are no longer remotely competitive. |
| DreamHost
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February 2005 | Several problems right from the beginning. Support was slow (usually about 24 hours) and only by email. Support people seemed clueless and apathetic. There appear to be browser-related quirks; some things only worked in Firefox, not IE. Others on the Dreamhost forum told of many problems with their websites and deteriortaing service as the company tries to grow rapidly. | Maybe they will straighten out their support problems in the future. |
| Website | Strengths | Weaknesses |
| Upperhost | pretty good, lots of detail, and background information. | Not a very complete l;ist, and doesn't include some very good companies |
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http://top10cheapwebhosting.com/
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http://www.site5.com/shared/comparison.php
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http://www.hosting-comparison.com/
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http://www.hostingconsumerreport.org/topunixhosts.htm
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