Top 10 recommended web hosts - October 2011

Discussion in 'Web Hosting' started by hannahlx5, Oct 14, 2011.

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    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!


    iPage
    InMotion
    JustHost

    HostGator
    BlueHost
    FatCow
    WebHosting Hub
    HostMonster
    SuperGreen Hosting
    HostClear

     
    hannahlx5, Oct 14, 2011 IP
  2. WSWD

    WSWD Well-Known Member

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    #2
    You have actually had hosting with all these companies? If not, this list is completely useless, just like most review forums out there.
     
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  3. elicitservers

    elicitservers Peon

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    Looks like the "Top 10" web hosting provider lists are coming to the forums now, great... As if there isn't enough of these lists already around! ;)
     
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  4. WSWD

    WSWD Well-Known Member

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    ROFL!! Just what we need! :D
     
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    vna1611 Well-Known Member

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    HostGator is really too expensive
     
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  6. hannahlx5

    hannahlx5 Peon

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    i dont have that much experience in hosting wen i am go through with hosting details. that time i noticed these websites in google, and i tried with only banyanbytes.com. and i did hosting with them they are very cheap in hosting i think for one year i paid 1000 rs and they giving domain name and lot of email account and all service that is the reason i posted this...
     
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  7. wirefax

    wirefax Greenhorn

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    Personally, I keep my sites in Burstnet, recommend)
     
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    atinga Active Member

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    Where did you get "banyanbytes " from?
    Never heard of them before, talk-less of them making it into the top 10!
     
    atinga, Oct 18, 2011 IP
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    flintR Peon

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    its india company so i think its popular therer.
     
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    obosor Well-Known Member

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    If you have no experience with theme then post is valueless.
     
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  11. hannahlx5

    hannahlx5 Peon

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    from mouth heard only i got these site. and i tried all the sites in that banyanbytes.com is the affordable and gud package so i taken web hosting and domain name from them, they are giving gud service to customer so that is the reason i added that website. every thing is depends upon us only, just try with that website.
     
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    dumindushalika Notable Member

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    How do you recommend to others banyanbytes.com which is just 7 months old? (I checked whois info)
    Age of the company is one of major factor to get an idea of the particular web host.
     
    dumindushalika, Oct 18, 2011 IP
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    ApocalypseXL Notable Member

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    Wow another list that was pulled out of thing air . Seems legit .
     
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    I almost never trust these lists. Read some reviews and make you own informed decisions. Search for reviews that talk about reliability, reputation, features, speed, support and up time. I do agree that these points are a valid concern when searching for a quality hosting provider.
     
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    HSJason Peon

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    There are very few unbiased webhosting reviews or lists out there, most of them are just providing the top spots to the highest bidders. While some of the hosts that were listed are actually ok, they also happen to be some of the companies that pay the most to be listed.
     
    HSJason, Oct 22, 2011 IP
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    ponsankari Peon

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    Apart from this, you can also check out the list of numerous web hosting companies offering various hosting plans.
     
    ponsankari, Nov 2, 2011 IP
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    HostColor Well-Known Member

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    If you "don't have that much experience in hosting" then you should not claim that you can rank "Top 10 recommended web hosts"!
     
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    indexhtml Active Member

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    Mmmmm!

    Tell us 'hannahlx5' - have you ever seen this page before - http://b2evolution.net/web-hosting/top-quality-best-webhosting.php

    Maybe you wrote this article as well - because its word perfect to the one you posted here without being accredited to anyone else?

    Oh sorry - not quite the same - the list on 10 Best hosts, although in exactly the same order, doesn't include - banyanbytes ?

    Not only that - your list here contains 12 hosts and not 10 as is intended by the article ? You forgot to remove 2 when you added - banyanbyte twice.

    Oh dear!
     
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    WSWD Well-Known Member

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    ROFL!! Good catch, indexhtml!

    I'm guessing he works for banyanbytes or something. Clearly not part of the original list, since it's the only one that isn't capitalized. Was obviously added after the fact. Oy! This industry is just chock full of idiots.
     
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    Techno? Peon

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    I've been using myPDV


    You can access all your information from wherever you are around the world. It is pretty much cloud storage excess it is very organised and you can sync all
    your information to your iPAD or iPhone and manage all your work offline. You can then go online and sync whatever new information or data you have posted.
    Pretty cool considering you can have everything stored all in the one area. Hope this helps :)
     
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