My Top 5
Website Hosting Sites
As a full-time internet marketer for the last few years, I've needed sites based at different hosting companies (for safety) and also (in the past) for various search engine reciprocal linking campaigns (see SEO). As you can imagine, that led to a fair bit of trial and error and I created this page so you can see the Top 10 website hosting sites that I've used.
To tell you the truth, there's not much difference between them other than price but I hope you'll notice that I've broken through the website copy to show you the real monthly cost (by the way, "s/u" is an abbreviation for "start-up costs").
All the website hosts offer:
...plus new media & web 2.0 capabilities etc...but do check if you have special requirements...and remember, never use their FREE domain name for your main site.
My Top 5
Website Hosting sites
|
Rank |
Name
Location
O/L since
# of clients |
Monthly
Cost |
Paypal
|
Disc Space
Bandwith
(GB) |
# of
Domains
&/or
Subdomains
|
Control Panel MySQL |
Email |
Extras
&
Freebies |
|
1 |
IX Website Hosting
Kentucky
2003
200,000 |
7.95 3m + $30 s/u
6.95 6m + $30 s/u
4.95 12 m FREE s/u
3.95 24 m FREE s/u |
No |
500
3,000
|
8
100 sub |
H-Sphere
100 |
5000 |
2 domains with 12m
$6.95m, receive $50 Google $50 MSN & $50 Yahoo ads
|
|
2 |
Lunar Pages
California
2000
100,000
|
9.95 3m + $30 s/u
8.95 6m + $30 s/u
7.95 12 m FREE s/u
6.95 24 m FREE s/u |
Yes |
350
3,500 |
11
Unlimited sub
|
C panel
Unlimited |
Unlimited
|
1 domain with 12m
$700 Coffeecup software
Forum
No LIVE chat
|
|
3 |
Blue Host
Utah
1996
315,000 |
9.95 3m + $30 s/u
8.95 6m + $30 s/u
7.95 12 m FREE s/u
6.95 24 m FREE s/u |
Yes |
300
3,000 |
Unlimited
Unlimited sub |
C panel
50 |
2,500
|
1 domain with 12m FREE who is
Forum
$25 Google & $50 Yahoo ads |
|
4 |
Host Monster
Utah
1996
130,000
|
8.95 $30 s/u
6.95 12 m FREE s/u
4.95 24 m FREE s/u |
Yes |
300
3,000 |
Unlimited
Unlimited sub |
C panel
100 |
Unlimited
|
1 domain with 12m
|
|
5 |
Host Excellence
Kentucky
2000
no figures
|
12.97 $30 s/u
9.97 12 m FREE s/u
6.97 24 m FREE s/u |
No |
300
3,000 |
6
300 sub
|
H-Sphere |
3000 |
1 domain |
|
A Cautionary Tale:
A friend of mine who spent months creating an internet marketing site, doing everything right, writing articles etc. Unfortunately he was recently targeted by hackers (competitors?), who inserted links to ADULT XXX sites to his homepage.
The result: His site disappeared from the top of the search engine rankings.
The remedy: He cleaned up the code, wrote to Google and explained the situation, changed his website hosting password (and continues to do so regularly) and now uploads his site every day, ensuring that the HTML is his code only. He has now regained his positions.
Important Development:
This SPAM site hacking has now become a far more serious problem, with Google search results now displaying:
"this website may be harmful to your computer"
...if your site has been infected, a warning which obviously destroys your traffic by giving searchers a very clear reason to not enter your site.
From a web-searcher point of view, if your site is infected, the trojans seem to enter via IE, but Mozilla users are safe for now. |
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