Tips on Choosing a Web Hosting Company For Newbies: 4 Web Hosts You Can Try

Do you want a blog, a forum, a personal website, a business website, an ecommerce site, or a website of any kind? Well, in that case, you need a domain and hosting. You need a domain first and then hosting. You can either connect your existing domain with your hosting package or buy a domain alongside the hosting package. There are also some hosting companies that give you a free domain for the first year if you buy a hosting package.

If you look online for the best web hosting companies, you will be overwhelmed. Therefore, in this article, I am providing brief information on different hosting companies for your website.

If you want $1 per month hosting, try angry hosting.

If you want a free domain with your hosting package, try iPage or hostgator

If you want to host multiple websites for a cheap price, try namecheap.

Hostaccent is another great hosting company that needs a special mention here. They have three different options for web hosting. You can choose between Shared, SSD Cloud VPS, and Dedicated Server.

Namecheap Webhosting Soluions

Namecheap is one of the best hosting companies you can find in the market. Namecheap offers hosting on a budget (the hosting price starts with 83 cents per month), provides 99.9 percent uptime (your website will never be down), and has wonderful support (your tickets are replied to within 10 minutes any time, and you also get Live chat support).

Namecheap offers numerous hosting packages from Shared hosting packages to Dedicated Servers. Namecheap offers Shared Hosting Value package at $9.88 per year, which is just about 83 cents per month (less than registering a dot com). The good thing about this Shared Hosting Value package is you can host up to three websites. Another shared hosting package you can get from namecheap is called Ultimate Shared Hosting. With this package, you can host a maximum of 50 websites, this package costs just $56 and you get ultimate bandwith and ultimate diskspace.

Namecheap also offers reseller hosting. The basic reseller hosting package allows you to have 25 resold accounts and 1 TB bandwith. It cost 16.96 per month.

You can get VPS hosting for as low as $16.95 per month, email hosting as low as 9.88 per year, and dedicated servers as low as 58.88 per month

iPage Web Hosting Solution

iPage has a good reputation in the market as a reliable web host that offers 24 hours support service. You can get web hosting from iPage for as low as $3.25 per month, which is one of the lowest in the market considering the fact that you will also get a free domain as well as a free SSL certificate for lifetime. Buying hosting service from iPage will also entitle you to $100 Adword credits, $100 Bing credits, unlimited diskspace, and free website builders such as Weebly.

 iPage offers wordpress managed hosting. This hosting package is best suited for people who have zero knowledge of programming.

If you chose to buy hosting package for a longer period, for instance, 3 years or 5 years, you can save a lot of money.

Siteground Web Hosting Solutions

Siteground hosting packages start at$3.95 per month. Siteground has well-designed hosting packages like Wordpress hosting, Joomla hosting, Drupal hosting. When you sign up with any hosting packages, you get a free domain for the first year, lifetime free SSL, free website template, also free installation from them. They even offer auto plugin updates.

Apart from Content Management System based hosting, they also offer shared hosting, cloud hosting, dedicated servers, and reseller hosting. The basic shared hosting costs$3.95 per month, which is suitable for small websites that get less than 10k monthly visitors. Cloud hosting package starts at$60 per month.

Support is very reliable, you can get a reply in less than 10 minutes at any time. If uptime is your main concern, you can choose Siteground. Servers located in the US, Europe as well as Asia promise you 99.9 percent uptime.

Hostgator Web Hosting

Hostgator is one of the trusted names in web hosting. They have been in the market for a long time and are well known for their reliability (virtually nonexistent downtime) due to their very large numbers of servers.

Hostgator is mostly remembered for shared hosting but their other packages like VPS, Dedicated Servers, and Windows Hosting are also very popular as well. So, if you choose to host your website with Hostgator, you have different packages to choose from.

If you compare Hоѕtgаtоr’s hosting соѕt with other budget hosting services, you will find that their charges are little higher, however, you should not mind the additional cost as they are very reliable and have a wonderful support system. When you look at what they are offering, you will feel the additional charges are justified. Hostgator offers unlimited diskspace, free website templates, and cPanel.

 Hostgator is mainly targeted towards the semi-technical user. Even when you are hosting your website for the first time and do not have any technical knowledge, their support system will guide you on how to host your first website. If that does not help you, you can choose managed hosting.

If you are somewhat technical, you can get Rооt access, SSH, and also support for Ruby, Perl, Python, and other languages.

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