Web Hosting Solutions

Just host is one of the most reliable website hosting services available online. They offer fast and affordable web hosting with reliability and 24 hour technical support via phone, email and chat. Just Host also offers a free domain for life and many other unlimited hosting features. They guarantee 99.9% uptime and an anytime money back guarantee.

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Should you be interested in helping save the planet, then super Green Hosting is for you. They offer high quality servers and server hardware, but use only energy efficient methods to keep power consumption as low as possible. Their carbon neutral project aims to reverse the effect of global warming by planting trees and using wind energy as a power source.

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 FAT COW - udderly fantastic web hosting

This robust website hosting company has been around since 1998 and delivers reliable web hosting services. They offer hosting packages for both business and personal hosting requirements. You can register your domain and have your website hosted at Fat Cow.

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Yahoo is a trusted name online, that is also offering website hosting and website services. They have tools to help you design and build your own website. You can update your website and view the performance of the website via reports. Their 24 hour support service will help you through the tasks of setting up your hosting and managing your website.

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Host Gator has been offering world class website hosting services since 2002. They have clients in over 200 countries and have over 300 employees. Their services include; shared hosting, reseller hosting, VPS and dedicated server packages for website pros as well as for people starting out online. They guarantee 99.9% uptime and have 24/7 support 365 days a year. With a 45 day money back guarantee why not try them out?

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Since 1997 Go Daddy has been offering the cheapest industry prices for the latest TLD’s. You can save up to 70% on domain name registration. They also offer website hosting, an easy to use website builder, email accounts, blogs, photo albums and more – all free! You can get online for the cost of your domain name!

What to look for in a web hosting company

Don’t be fooled by your hosting company’s monthly pricing. You need to look into the entire package to work out exactly what you will be paying in the end. Many hosting companies offer low initial monthly pricing to get your business online, but you may well end up paying for disk space overages and bandwidth use. These overages are often so high that it may be cheaper to buy a bigger package or just look around for a better solution. There are also factors to consider as outlined below.

Bandwidth (transfer of information)
Is related to the amount of traffic that is used to access your website. The bigger the files that are downloaded (or the bigger your website) the more traffic you will most likely use. So, if you have video, audio and other big files on your site, then bandwidth will be something you need to consider very carefully. Many modern hosting companies offer unlimited bandwidth to their clients nowadays, so you don’t need to worry how often your site is being accessed and how much information is being transferred.

Disk space:
Is something that many people underestimate as a cost. Your website and your website disk space allowance could quite easily be exceeded. If you get many emails and are not downloading and deleting them off the web hosting server regularly, then you are likely to be billed for the extra space that is used. Don’t be surprised when your monthly bill is well over the price you thought you would pay because often you do not get warned in advance. Look around for those hosting companies that are offering unlimited disk space, there are quite a few these days.

Domains:
With many hosting packages available you may also be able to host as many domains as you like. You can simply add each domain to your existing hosting package and not have to sign up again. This is a cheap and easy way of starting new websites as you will be able to add an unlimited amount of domains at any stage.

Email accounts:
It's hard to say how many email accounts you will need to have hosted when starting a new company as your small business will hopefully grow into a bigger one and you may have several staff members working for you within a few months. Most of them will require their own email accounts to perform their job, so you need to consider how many email accounts you may require and allow for the growth of your business. You will find that many web hosting companies now offer unlimited email accounts.

Support:
Any good web hosting company should offer 24 hour support for both your website and your email. It is important to evaluate what facilities they have available for supporting their clients. For example, is the support 24 hours and are they available on Skype (save you phone calls). Do they respond to emails quickly and are the staff members competent. It is often better to use an international company with competent staff that is accessible on Skype or reliable on email than it is to hire the guys down the road with terrible service.

Other things to consider:
Apart from the above essential items, you can also look into several other areas. For example, the up time they guarantee, what control panel they are using (cpanel is a great choice) and how often they backup their web servers. You may also be able to get free and easy Joomla installations, and online marketing vouchers to help promote your website.