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What is the Real Secret of the Best Website Hosting?

Is it possible to find one hosting company that could be called the best website hosting provider? Unfortunately, there is not!

Reasons are very simple - we all are different with various needs, requirements and also understanding of that what we should or should not expect from the hosting company, that directly affects our evaluation of so-called the best website hosting. In fact, all these evaluations of so-called "best" for any kind of product or service are very subjective, just sometimes these best choices do match up!

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Anyway! Which are The Best Website Hosting Companies?

As you have come here with the question - which is the best website hosting, I owe you an answer.These will not be hosting companies chosen by me, but rather by those who call themselves hosting company specialists or websites where you can find lists of best hosting companies. Here, will be presented data of the best hosting companies that I pulled together from ten hosting review sites. I compared them, counted which companies are mentioned the most often in those TOP10 lists and then I started to analyze them starting with finding out their experience, number of hosted domains, etc.

And here you go! All results collected in one list! Before any voting hosting companies were arranged starting with a company that hosts the biggest number of domains. Everything else depends on your votes!

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HostGator

1,423,473 domains hosted | 8 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth, e-mail accounts, subdomains, FTP accounts, MySQL databases | FREE: Website Builder, Google AdWords $100 credit | PRICE: $6.95/mo | 45-day money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Drupal, Mambo, Moodle, WordPress, b2evolution, Gallery, Coppermine, phpBB, Poll software - visit HostGator official site

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1&1

2,757,461 domains hosted | 12 years experience | UNLIMITED: bandwidth | FREE: domain (.co.uk, .me.uk. .org.uk), Website Builder | PRICE: $7.75/mo | 60-day money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: 1&1 blog, dynamic content, Photo Gallery - visit 1&1 official site

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BlueHost

1,238,196 domains hosted | 14 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth, e-mail accounts, hosted domains, subdomains | FREE: domain name, Website Builder, Google AdWords $50 credit | PRICE: $6.95/mo | anytime money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Drupal, Moodle, WordPress, b2evolution, Coppermine, phpBB, Poll software - visit BlueHost official site

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DreamHost

1,083,234 domains hosted | 13 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth, e-mail accounts, hosted domains, subdomains, FTP accounts, MySQL databases | FREE: domain name, Google AdWords up to $75 credit | PRICE: $8.95/mo | 97-day money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Moodle, WordPress, Gallery, phpBB, Poll software - visit DreamHost official site

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HostMonster

721,494 domains hosted | 14 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth, e-mail accounts, hosted domains, subdomains, FTP accounts | FREE: domain name, Website Builder, Google AdWords $50 credit | PRICE: $5.95/mo | 30-day money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Drupal, Moodle, WordPress, b2evolution, Coppermine, Poll software, Forum - visit HostMonster official site

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Netfirms

329,836 domains hosted | 12 years experience | UNLIMITED: hosted domains | FREE: Google AdWords $25 credit | PRICE: $4.95/mo | 30-day money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Drupal, Moodle, WordPress, Gallery, Coppermine, phpBB - visit Netfirms official site

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Ixwebhosting

319,413 domains hosted | 11 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth, e-mail accounts, hosted domains, subdomains | FREE: domain name, Website Builder, Google AdWords $25 credit | PRICE: $3.95/mo | 30-day or anytime money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Mambo, WordPress, b2evolution, Gallery, Coppermine, phpBB, Poll software - visit Ixwebhosting official site

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FatCow

186,503 domains hosted | 12 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth, e-mail accounts, hosted domains, subdomains, MySQL databases, domain name | FREE: Website Builder, Google AdWords $50 credit | PRICE: $4.67/mo | 30-day money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, WordPress, Gallery, phpBB, Poll software - visit FatCow official site

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Inmotionhosting

153,891 domains hosted | 9 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth | FREE: Website Builder | PRICE: $5.95/mo | 90-day money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Mambo, WordPress, b2evolution, Coppermine, Forum- visit Inmotionhosting official site

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IPage

129,428 domains hosted | 12 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth, e-mail accounts, hosted domains, MySQL databases | FREE: domain name, Website Builder, Google AdWords $50 credit | PRICE: $4.50/mo | anytime money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Drupal, Mambo, WordPress, b2evolution, Gallery, Coppermine, phpBB - visit IPage official site

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PowWeb

119,871 domains hosted | 11 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth, e-mail accounts, hosted domains | FREE: domain name, Website Builder, Google AdWords $50 credit | PRICE: $3.88/mo | 30-day money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Drupal, Mambo, Moodle, WordPress, Gallery, phpBB - visit PowWeb official site

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WebHostingPad

94,612 domains hosted | 5 years experience | UNLIMITED: disk space, bandwidth, e-mail accounts, hosted domains, subdomains, MySQL databases | FREE: domain name, Website Builder, Google AdWords $25 credit | PRICE: $4.95/mo | 30-day money back guarantee | EASY INSTALL: Joomla!, Mambo, WordPress, b2evolution, Coppermine, phpBB - visit WebHostingPad official site

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Before Making Hosting Choice - You Could Determine the Goal of Your Website

will it be a hobby site or business site?

If you intend to create a website just for your hobby you even could think of choosing free hosting services, but always keep in mind that free is free and there always is a risk that you can lose your data. However, there still are such wonderful options as Wordpress and Blogspot free blog platforms, you can also start with them!

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Nevertheless, after you have come to the idea of making any kind of business over the Internet then you should start thinking of choosing website hosting that can give you a guarantee that your files are in a safe place. Then, you should consider main features that will help you ensure that with your site everything is alright and anyone who wants to visit can really do it!

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Let's go Deeper! People Need Reviews. Do They Really?

why should you be careful with trusting on website hosting reviews

That is one major problem over the Internet, to find honest product or service review. The problem is that you can never know who wrote the review and if that is an honest one. Of course, there is a chance to find honest review parts in forums, but that also is not always, as people promoting specific hosting companies are everywhere.

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Talking about the website hosting reviews, the funniest will be that through the Google by searching "best hosting company" you will find different "best hosting companies". So as a result, you get a list of comparing sites where principles of ranking are not very clear. That what I meant by saying that you should be careful with trusting on reviews. Yesterday I got new prove that I really do not like reviews. It is as a rule, if I will find a good review about some hosting company, I will definitely be able to find a completely opposite reviews as well.

And at that moment how can I choose what to believe? Why I should consider that one is not telling the true and other is? Unfortunately, lately I have learned not to trust so much on that what other are suggesting over the Internet, and my reason is very simple - I do not know what are the reasons why that person shares with me exactly that information and not other.

That is why you will not find some specific advice of choosing some particular hosting company in this lens, I want to give you just facts, as much as I could collect. I put them together in this list that it would be easier to compare and analyze them and hopefully to make your choice easier!

How to Choose the Best Solution for Your Website?

As I already mentioned - trust facts! Trust that what hosting companies promise you because they do have liabilities, even if you have decided to become their customer just for that period in which you can get your money back.

To make the right choice below you will find a list of criteria from which you can choose that, which is the most important for you when you think of creating your website and storing your website's files on hosting company's servers. These are links to hosting company comparing tables, where in each table hosting providers are arranged starting with the best considering each of mentioned criteria.

☞ RELIABILITY (number of domains hosted, hosting experience in years)
☞ UNLIMITED disk space
☞ UNLIMITED bandwidth
☞ UNLIMITED e-mail accounts
☞ Lower PRICE
☞ FREE domain name included in standard package
☞ FREE Website Builder and Google AdWords credit
☞ EASY INSTALL scripts (Joomla!, Wordpress, Drupal, phpBB, Gallery, etc.

☞ Number of Domains Hosted, Hosting Experience

if the reliability is that what you are looking for

These are data only from publicly available WHOIS data base, which I visited on 10th January 2011.

✔ Back to the list of ALL hosting companies, I found what I was looking for!

☞ Unlimited Disk Space, Bandwidth, etc.

most of the hosting companies tries to offer unlimited features, still not everyone

✔ Back to the list of ALL hosting companies, I found what I was looking for!

☞ FREE Domain Name, Website Builder, Google AdWords Credit

✔ Back to the list of ALL hosting companies, I found what I was looking for!

☞ Lower Price - Lower Quality? Not Always, But in the Most Cases Yes

do not forget about money back guarantee period

✔ Back to the list of ALL hosting companies, I found what I was looking for!
* given prices are valid if you choose to pay for one year period

** until 28th February 2011 there is an offer, when you can get first 6 months of hosting at 1&1 hosting for free, so this period of 60-day money back guarantee is not adjustable for this free offer

Just one remark from personal experience dealing with hosting companies, I have found out that if I want to save a bigger money on hosting services, then probably I cannot expect the best quality for that money. You can easily calculate an average price of hosting companies, at least from this list of biggest hosting companies, and if some hosting company offers you some very law price, then there definitely should raise the question - why it is lower than average price on this market. Just think about it!

One interesting feature with hosting prices is that almost all the time hosting companies offer discounts. If visitor gets on hosting website there is a sign that there is a special offer exactly right now. Sometimes there really are special offers, but in the most cases companies simply show some bigger price as a standard price and then give you like a discount. Simply choose which price the best meets your opportunities and do not worry about losing some very special offer!

☞ Easy Install CMS, Blogs, Forums, etc.

if you like the convenience, why not to use these options?

✔ Back to the list of ALL hosting companies, I found what I was looking for!

Do you like easy install blogs and forums? I really do! Besides, I have noticed that pretty often people ask, for example, which is the best hosting to place your Wordpress blog. In fact, there should not be a very big difference where to install it, simply there are hosting companies that have made this process easier for you, as you can install it on its servers just in a minute. The same idea goes to Joomla! and other features like forums or even chats.

I tried to do my best on finding information about all available easy install scripts, but not all hosting companies offer that information easy available. So let's consider that I get most of it and please do not be too strict if I did miss anything.

Unfortunately, from this comparison is excluded 1&1 hosting as their supplied information was so poor that I could not put their data in this comparison table. They offer 1&1 Blog, Dynamic Content and Photo Gallery.

Congratulations! Now You Have Discovered the Very Best Hosting Company for You!

After putting together all information I shared with you, hopefully, I can congratulate you with the best choice between those hundreds of options that you had.

However, if you have not made your choice yet, you can one more time have a look at the hosting companies summary table, which in fact is also something like your ranking table of all described hosting companies.

Now the next step is to make your site life! Best luck with your efforts!

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