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Choosing A Web Host

Once you have built your website and it is ready to go live online you will need to choose a web host. There are a lot of different choices available.. some good and some fantastic, some bad.. and some absolutely horrible!

Making the right choice will save you a lot of headaches.

If you are still new at this and feel you may have a lot of questions.. it is best to find a host with a toll free number whereby you will be able to call and speak with support people personally. They will be able to provide help and walk you through some of the things you may be having problems with.

It is comforting to know you can pick up the phone and have your questions and problems resolved in minutes.. rather than having to create a ticket and wait for several hours.. or even worse.. send an e-mail and sometimes wait for days.

Web Hosting Reviews

Sorting Through it All - How Reliable are the Reviews ?

If you do a search for web hosting.. you will find there are about 300 million results.. with a lot of them being web hosting review sites.

The only problem with a lot of the review sites is that you may very seldom get a completely unbiased opinion. The review sites (logically) have affiliate partner agreements with the hosting companies. In the interest of higher profits.. often times they will give the highest rating to the web host whose affiliate program pays the most.

There are those who do give honest and comprehensive reviews of some of the leading web hosting companies.. but I have seen a lot of them who are listing mediocre web hosts at the top of the list simply because that affiliate program pays more than the others.

Free or Cheap Web Hosting

To Save More Money or Make More Money - That is the Question

A lot of beginners start out with one of the free web hosting options. Free hosting may be fine if you are simply putting up a page with photos of the new kittens for friends and relatives to view online. However, using a free hosting service is not a good idea if you are intending to run an online business.

If you will be using your website to make money online.. cost should not be your number one concern when it comes to your web hosting provider. The most important thing you should be concerned with is reliability.

There are a lot of free and/or very inexpensive web hosting options.. however, it is important that your website be online when you need it to be and not down or unavailable for extended periods of time. Having your website unavailable when visitors come calling will cost you far more over time than you will be saving in using the free or cheap.. unreliable web hosting.

Nothing could be worse than having your site go down on Friday night.. only to find that your economy web hosting service is some tiny fly-by-night outfit being run by a couple of web host wannabees.. Igor and his brother.. and they have gone fishing for the week-end.

For a few dollars more a month you can get completely reliable web hosting with 24/7 support. Choose from a full range of website hosting solutions with the web hosts we have listed beow. These web hosts have a reputation for being extremely reliable.. with excellent uptime and superior customer support.

After all.. these are the people who will have complete control of your server space and file maintenance.. so it is important to know you are in good hands and will have access to all the services and features you may need.

Host Gator

Reputation Second to None !!

Host GatorI have been in Online Marketing for more than 10 years.. having started my first online business in 1998. Over the years I have used many web hosts.

I was lucky enough to find Host Gator when it was a new company just starting out. I decided to give them a try and asked if they could set up my account to my specifications.

Brent (founder) called me back and personally set up my account for me just the way I wanted it. He gave me his personal cell phone number in case I had any further requirements.

After a few months.. I was so happy with the hosting and the exceptional support.. I called him back and had him set up three additional accounts for me.

That was quite a few years ago.. and I still have several accounts with Host Gator.. hosting a large number of my domains with them. Now that they have grown to the hugely successful business they are.. hosting something like 5+ million domains.. I doubt Brent is still giving clients his personal cell phone number :-)

Host Gator is a full service web hosting provider.. offering shared hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated hosting solutions for personal use as well as for their business clients and Fortune 500 companies as well.

The Host Gator support team is available 24/7 via e-mail, instant message, live chat and telephone. Additionally.. they offer a support forum which is always accessible to their clients.

Whether you are looking to host one website.. or 101 websites you could certainly never go wrong with Host Gator

Check out Host Gator here.. compare pricing and plans.

Great Hosting Solutions

Another of My Favorite Web Hosts

Since I earn my living online and have multiple websites.. I like to utilize more than one web host.. and normally have more than one account with each host.. giving me a variety of IP's on a variety of different C classes.

If you are still somewhat new to websites and web hosting.. this may sound a bit confusing to you right now. It will all begin to make more sense once you have gained some experience.

Basically.. when you have multiple websites you do not want them all hosted on the same IP or with the same web host.. particularly if you will be linking the sites to each other.

Links from other websites is an important part of SEO (search engine optimization). If all of your sites are hosted on the same IP address it alerts the search engines to the fact that the sites are more than likely owned by the same person. Linking these sites to each other would make the back links virtually useless.

However.. SEO is a whole different subject.. so for now let's get back to the subject of hosting.

Great Hosting Solutions is another full service web hosting provider.. offering shared hosting, virtual dedicated hosting and dedicated hosting solutions.

All plans include website stats, autoresponder, Google® webmaster tools, Free $100 Google® AdWords® credit, Free $50 Facebook® Ad Credits, Fotolia® Photo Credits and much more.

Also included.. free setup and free software.. dozens of free add-on applications with one click installation.. including WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, Zen Cart and more.

The Great Hosting Solutions support team provides 24/7 phone, e-mail and web support.

Check out Great Hosting Solutions here.. compare pricing and plans.

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  • SynchronicityHouse Mar 10, 2012 @ 5:23 am | delete
    You've created a great Lens with such useful info - I'm in the process of moving from a freebie webhost - so many to choose from! So a personal opinion is very helpful - thanks.
  • cffutah Oct 7, 2011 @ 11:46 pm | delete
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  • ambrking Sep 15, 2011 @ 1:43 am | delete
    Great lens. I have read reviews about Host Gator and I think they are one of the biggest web hosting provider. I am currently using Webvisions, and so far they haven't disappointed me.
  • jaredsgirl Sep 4, 2011 @ 5:20 pm | delete
    Thanks for sharing this great information! Nice lens.
  • cthulhu Jul 26, 2011 @ 4:00 pm | delete
    I've been using BlueHost for years with no problems at all. And they are very affordable. Good, informative lens!
  • SaraLynn Jul 27, 2011 @ 12:08 pm | delete
    Thank you for your comment. I have heard good things about BlueHost.. but once again they do not meet my requirements in considering a web host. They do not have reseller hosting.. which means.. as with PowWeb.. any additional domains will have to be add-ons.
  • poddys Jul 25, 2011 @ 1:02 am | delete
    I use POWWEB, who have had their problems, but are mostly pretty reliable. Like Hostgator POWWEB allows you to host multiple domains on one account, so I don't need to pay each time I want to host a new site. They also have unlimited storage and transfer volumes, but my sites use well below the reasonable limits in any case.
  • SaraLynn Jul 25, 2011 @ 11:55 am | delete
    Thank you for your comment. I'm sure PowWeb is fine.. I just don't care for the shared hosting where you host the first domain and all the others are add-on domains. I prefer to have reseller accounts.. as well as dedicated IP's for many of my domains. Brent, at HostGator, set up my reseller accounts so that I can not only have multiple domains in each account.. but for an additional $2 a month each.. I can have a dedicated IP for as many of the domains in each account as I choose.
  • ajgodinho Jul 21, 2011 @ 6:30 pm | delete
    Thanks for your review on the best web hosting solutions and your personal experience with Host Gater.
  • gatorsquid Jul 13, 2011 @ 1:50 am | delete
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