In order to best evaluate the hosting offers out there, we open test accounts at each hosting company in order to review their service. This also allows us to make sure the b2evolution software works well on as many hosting platforms as possible, especially with our b2evolution hosting partners.

Our first selection is done through Web Hosting Tests who tests several hundreds of hosting offers anonymously.

With the best of these hosts, we then set up specific test accounts in order to verify they perform well with b2evolution.

You can check those test sites out for yourself to see how good or not a particular host is, especially in terms of server speed / bandwidth...

Here is a list of public test sites we have set-up:

1. BlueHost
2. FastDomain
3. FatCow
4. GreenGeeks
5. HostColor
6. HostGator
7. HostMonster
8. HostPapa
9. HostingPlex
10. JustHost
11. LunarPages
12. PowWeb
13. SuperGreen
14. WebHostingBuzz

You may actually wish to check back on these test sites at times that matter the most to you, in order to see if you'll get good server speed at that time of the day. It is often ok to wait a second more for a web page to load, but it gets painful when every page of an administrative interface takes 1 second too long!

General

SiteCloud is the first load balanced cloud hosting provider that features the popular cPanel control panel. What differentiates SiteCloud from other CPanel web hosts is that they load balance their infrastructure versus placing all the customers and services on a single server.

Based out of Santa Monica, CA, SiteCloud is owned and operated by industry veteran Trey Gardner.

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Here are some voucher codes you can use for webhosting in the the UK at UK2.NET.

SUMMERHOST - £5 off web hosting

SUMMERSERVER - £15 off dedicated servers

SUMMERCOMMERCE - £10 off ecommerce packages

(these coupon codes are valid until Sept 5th)

General

WebHostingHub is a top hosting company in the budget category.  They are completely US based with technical support, sales, and customer service done from their office in Virginia. In addition, they have two data centers, one in Ashburn, VA and one on the West Coast in Los Angeles, CA.

All of their equipment is very modern, some of the largest and fastest machines of any hosting company we reviewed. Our tests showed exceptional response times and top uptimes.

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Company

Yahoo! is a large corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Yahoo is mainly known for its search engine as well as email services along with web hosting. As of 2010, the corporation laid claim to the largest share of online advertising in the world.

• Year Founded: 1994
• Incorporated: March 1, 1995
• Founder: Jerry Yang and David Filo - Electrical Engineering Graduates, Stanford
• CEO: Carol Bartz
• Office Location: Sunnyvale, CA
• Sister Companies: del.ico.us, Flickr, Fire Eagle, FoxyTunes, Upcoming, Wretch

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