subject: The Best Of The Best: Best Web Hosting Companies [print this page] Whether you are a veteran Web designer looking for the best web hosting companies, new too web hosting and curious about how it can help your business or just curious, this articles will point you in the right direction. The companies below have gotten consistently high ratings and offer the best range of services at the lowest price.
HostMonster is easily one of the best web hosting companies on the internet today. Many companies are offering unlimited hosting space and band width but HostMonster takes it all the way by adding free site promotion, a $25 dollar gift certificate from Yahoo and a $50 gift certificate from Google just for signing up. HostMonster also offers a coupon for new accounts. Normal monthly fees are $6.95 and the coupon offers $3 off the first month. They offer some excellent site building tools and have some of the best online support of any company.
I-Page is breaking new ground with its free online store for those development and marketing tools, coupons, shopping cart, and all of the other extras that your online storefront needs to thrive. I-Page has unlimited disk space and traffic volume, free domains and instant setup, and now they have gone green. I-Page is now using wind-generated Renewable Energy Certificates to offset all of their electricity use each year.
Green Geeks is another eco-friendly green web hosting company. They offer unlimited disk space, host domains, email accounts and website migration, along with unlimited bandwidth. This companys site builder software is very good and MySQL databases are also included in the package for only $6.95 per month.
Web hosting companies are a dime a dozen now and all of them offer different service packages for different fees. There are a number of free hosting services available but you will find that they are mostly good for posting personal WebPages and some of them do not even allow commercial use. Nearly none of them offer free development tools so, unless you are a web designer or are willing to hire one, or even have your own development environment, these sites probably are not for you.
