Today, it’s possible to host your site for as low as $1/mo. to as high as $50/mo. It depends on the disk space and bandwidth of your plan.

Features of a Web Hosting Service

Disk Space

Disk Space or server space is the amount of space (in MB or GB) you get to host your website on the internet. Most websites need less than 10 MB disk space. But it depends upon the type of website you are going to start.

Bandwidth

Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data transfer per month in Gigabytes or even in Terabytes you get with your account. Now, what does it means to you? Let’s say your homepage is 50 KB in size including all graphics and text. Suppose your web hosting service gives you 5 GB monthly bandwidth.

Then it means that your web host allows a maximum of 100,000 visitors per month to your home page.

CGI Scripts

Make sure that the web hosting service you choose allows you to run CGI or Perl scripts.

Traffic Analysis

It’s important to analyze your traffic so make sure your host provides you a website statistics program which gives information about your unique visitors per day/month/year. And also about your traffic referrers i.e information about the source of your traffic.

Recommended Web Hosting Services

Never go for an unbranded web hosting company or web hosting services offered by members from forums. It’s because they don’t offer a reliable service. They may gain some customers today and may shut down their service tomorrow. Web Hosting Services offered by such members from forums are usually one-man web hosts. It means that the tech support, sales, billing and accounting are all done by a single person and he might be a reseller of a bigger hosting company. So never trust such people.

Now, I am going to introduce you three web hosting services namely GoDaddy, IXWebHosting and HostGator. Each of these web hosting company falls into a specific category. GoDaddy offers the cheapest web hosting service, IXWebHosting offers more features than the other two hosts. HostGator is my recommended web host and the most reliable web hosting company.

GoDaddy

If you are looking for a cheap web hosting service then I really recommend GoDaddy.com. Checkout their Economy Plan as well as Deluxe Plan.

Economy plan costs $3.99/mo. or $3.59/mo (12 months plan). It gives you 5 GB of disk space and 250 GB of bandwidth. It allows you to host only domain name.

Deluxe plan costs $6.99/mo. or $6.29/mo. (12 months plan). It gives you 100 GB of storage and 1,000 GB of bandwidth. Deluxe plan allows you host unlimited domain names. It means that you can host multiple web sites within a single account, sharing the same disk space and bandwidth.

Both the Economy and Deluxe plan comes with $20 Google AdWords Credit and $50 Microsoft adCenter Credit. If you don’t have a domain name then that is additional and it costs additional $1.99 if  you opt for annual plan or additional $6.95 if you opt for monthly hosting plan.

IX Web Hosting

IX Web Hosting is rated as the top web hosting company by several web hosting review sites. Checkout their Expert Plan and Business Plan.

Expert Plan costs $4.95/mo. and it allows you to host two domain names within a single account. It even offers you a FREE Domain Name. Expert plan gives you 300 GB web space and 3,000 GB bandwidth.

IXWebHosting’s most popular is their Business Plan. It comes with 2 FREE Domain Names and offers you 500 GB web space and 3,500 GB bandwidth, it allows you to host 8 domain names within a single account. Business plan costs $7.95/mo.

IXWebHosting offers you FREE marketing credits too. It gives you $50 Miva Credit, $25 Google AdWords Credit, $50 Yahoo! Credit, $50 BidVertiser Credit, and up to $100 ABC Search Credit with their Expert Plan. And with the Business plan you get all the above plus $25 additional Google AdWords Credit.

HostGator

HostGator is my favorite web host. HostGator is also ranked as the top web hosting company by several web hosting review sites. HostGator’s most popular plan is their Baby Plan. Read my full HostGator review here.

Baby plan costs $9.95/mo. It allows you to host unlimited domains within a single account. It comes with 100 GB disk space and 1,000 GB bandwidth. It is one of the most reliable web hosting company with excellent support.

HostGator doesn’t gives you FREE marketing credits. But never mind that as you can get all those credits for free from other source. I’ve coupons for $50 Microsoft adCenter Credit, $199 Yahoo! Search Marketing Credit and $50 Google AdWords Credit.

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