Best web hosting companies for general purpose hosting
| Web Host | Hosting company | Price /mo. | Dom. name | Disk space | Transfer /mo. | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | IX Web Hosting | $3.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | Est. 1999 |
Most of the web hosts above will give you a special promo price, either via a coupon or automatically if you sign up through this page. Disclaimer: Some of these hosts will pay us a commission in addition to giving you a promotional price. These commissions are reinvested in the development of the b2evolution software.
About web hosting
In order for your website to be accessible by your visitors on the Internet, you need to host it with a webhost, i-e a company that has web servers connected to the internet 24x7. Web hosting companies have thousands of such servers in data centers. For futher details, please see Web hosting explained »
Those servers can be dedicated to a specific site ("dedicated servers" - which is expensive) or shared between several clients and web sites (which is much more affordable). This is called "shared web hosting". All offers on this page are shared hosting.
Our hosting selection
The drawback of shared hosting is that if the hosting company shares too few servers between too many clients, then your site could become dramatically slow. This can be acceptable to some level if your primary concern is price (see our cheap hosting page). However, studies have shown that if your home page takes more than 10 seconds to load, visitors will start to abandon your site. On this top 10, we restricted our selection to companies capable of delivering professional speed & quality hosting services.
Our process for selecting, evaluating and ranking web hosting companies and their offers includes:
- Reputation. We have reviewed all well known web hosting companies as well as the ones suggested by our users. Please use our feedback form to submit your own suggestions.
- Popularity. We have reviewed all the web hosting companies frequently used by b2evolution powered sites.
- Speed. For our web hosting reviews, we set up private test sites in order to verify the specs beyond the ads. In many instances we also have public hosting test sites (you'll find them in each review), where you can also check for yourself how responsive the host is while browsing through a typical modern blog/CMS site.
- Reliability & uptime. No host is really 99.99% perfect here. However, all hosts rated 4 stars or more are in the top performers regarding uptime.
- Features. Many hosts are loaded with features you don't need. In other cases you may need something very specific or advanced that only a few hosts will offer (SSH access for example). All hosts on this page have the standard features you expect from a modern web hosting company: PHP, Perl, MySQL, control panel and email, all that on your own domain, of course.
- Support. This is tricky to evaluate. Because the quality of support sometimes varies from one support representative to the next, we kindly ask you to share your experience in the comments section for your host. Unfortunately this also attracts fake comments (sometimes from competitors, sometimes from the hosts themselves). We try to moderate but we reckon this is not 100% failsafe.
A note about Price: we constantly try to find the best coupons or to secure special deals with hosting companies in order to bring you the best prices for each of these hosting offers. Sometimes, however, those prices are valid for a limited time only and it may happen that the promo has expired when you try to take advantage of it. If this happens, please let us know so we can update the site ASAP. In the meantime, grab the good offers while they last & enjoy!
Hosting offers with details
 Unlimited Disk Space |
Est. 1999
IX Web Hosting« Over 350,000 Domains Hosted in Our Own Data Center in Columbus, OH. Unlimited Domains • Unlimited Transfer • Unlimited Web Space • 2 Free Domain Regs • 2 Dedicated IPs • Ecommerce Ready! We’re working on being as energy-efficient as possible, while still maintaining reliability. We’re striving towards making our customer service department even friendlier and more efficient. » |
Prices shown on this page are for 12 month terms or longer. Please see individual reviews for details. Hosting companies may change their pricing, specs and conditions without notice. Though we try to track them accurately, please report any discrepancies you might find.
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Please note: Most hosting companies have Terms Of Service limiting hosting of illegal and/or potentialy offending contents, including "warez", copyright violations and adult hosting. If you are unsure, please make sure to read the TOS before signing up.
