Web Hosting Reviews and Ratings - The Top Performing Web Hosting Providers of 2009
Deciding to start your own website shouldnt be a risky business. Afterall it is suppose to be fun and allow you to express yourself in a variety of ways, so as the people of the world can learn just who you are when they visit your site. Or if you are starting an online business or affiliate marketing, then building a decent website with good content should not be a hassle. However, there are web hosting companies that can lure you into a trap and try to keep you there. They offer a simple online contract that can bind you to their services that are not as reliable, efficient and especially as affordable as other web hosting companies.
Our services at providing web hosting reviews online started about five years back because of a few web hosting plans that simply backfired in our face. This costed us around $1600 per month for three years, becuase at the time we were running a community network online for friends, which eventually became something similar to MySpace. However, we were out of a very substantial amount of money. So my team of webmasters developed a little site that we like to keep updated with the top five web hosting plans that will not shut off services for no good reason, and they are fast and efficient, and of course- more importantly they are less expensive.
Hostgator Review - Offering High Reliability, at an Affordable Price
HostGator Review Rating:
Let us begin by saying that the absolute best shared web hosting package, which is really for almost all people out there is supplied by hostgator. Hostgator has been around for a while, and their data centers are magnificent.
They have dual backup systems (ADS) for major blackouts and power outages- which basically means that power could fail across the whole united states, but your server will still be live. Hostgator's plan packages are the least expensive around for the services that you get.
Also, we just want to note right here that Hostgator's technical support team is the best around.
HostMonster Review - Extreme Reliability,at a Great Low Price
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Their package plan is magnificent- since they only offer one; and they DO offer everything (except ASP with chillsoft). They have the best technical support team around, and they offer unlimited everything at a flat annual rate which is lower than any other service from any other web host around. We honestly believe that 99% of people searching for a great web hosting company to use will find Hostmonster as being exactly what they are looking for.
LiquidWeb Review - Online Leader in Reliability, More Expensive Rates
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Our next pick would have to be LiquidWeb. Liquidweb specializes in Managed Servers (aka. Dedicated Servers) which allows you full control over your entire system at a much steeper price. This can be unfortunate if you yourself are not a technical person nor do you have a real IT staff to maintain your "rented" server.
However, LiquidWeb has an excellent technical support team that can keep your site(s) up and running, however; Liquidweb offers Shared Web Hosting at a little higher price range than any other web hosts mentioned on this page.
Whether you are looking for a shared hosting plan or a dedicated server we strongly recommend LiquidWeb- their service is top-of-the-line and their staff and support is great. You can shop around but the best in technology goes to LiquidWeb. With the Dedicated Server Plan you can actually customize your server as if you were buying a new Personal Computer.
Lunarpages Review - Offers Decent Reliability, at a Definitely Affordable Price
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Lunarpages is well-known, but they just are not sticking out to the public as well as Hostgator and Hostmonster. The reason why is because of their technical staff. We have rated their plans, packages, reliability and overall efficiency as five-star services, which means that above and beyond the call Lunarpages puts the competition to the test. However- when we purchased our plan with Lunarpages we actually had to intentionally break the server down just so we had a reason to test their technical support team. The result that we got was about seventy-two hours of downtime that we intentionally caused before technical support answered our support ticket and fixed the problem. Which was a little longer than we proposed it would take, however with hostmonster we had to do the same thing and they answered us back and fixed the problem within twenty minutes of actually placing the support ticket. So as a data center, they are excellent- but their technical support needs a little help.
Bluehost Review - Decent Reliability, Definitely Affordable
Bluehost is a reputable web hosting company that began it's journey in 2003 by Matt Heaton, the current owner and CEO. BlueHost is one of the largest privately held and fastest growing shared hosting companies around. Their Web Hosting packages offer the top five of the best online today and they are still growing - especially offering their web hosting services at such a low, affordable price. Their services are highly recommended by the review team here at Web Hosting Galore! Their top offers are unlimited domains, unlimited sub-domains, unlimited transfer, unlimited bandwith and unlimited hard drive space. If you are a beginner in web hosting or are starting your own online endeavors for the first time. Bluehost will get you on your way at a third of the cost of other shared web hosting companies.