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:

• money back in 30 days
• uptime guarantee 99.9% 
• 24/7 toll FREE, phone, email, LIVE chat & ticket support (except where noted)
• website builder

...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.

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.

see also:

• Dedicated Hosting
• Adult Hosting

Reference:

• Wikipedia website hosting