Comparison: Best Website Hosting Company

There are several websites out there that compare different web hosting companies to discover the best. While some of them come to good conclusions there is one main problem. Most of these websites tried the hosting company once or only for a short period of time in order to write their review. Granted you learn about the different features that they provide and the service that they provide new customers... but what about long term customers? Customers that want to be treated right by their hosting company years down the line. That's where we come in.

We have been helping our clients achieve success for many years. We take care of all the details from the time our clients explain their vision, to the time their website goes live and they start to bring in previously non-existent revenue.

Because of the tightly knit relationship that we have with our clients, we have had the opportunity to evaluate and review several website hosting services that they have had success with. Let me rephrase that. That they have had long term success with. We have compiled a list of our favorite ones below and written a brief review of their strengths.

To create this list, we have taken various aspects of the company's service into account such as customer relations, price, ease of use, features, and more.

Ranked #1

Web Hosting Pad

1. Price: Extremely good. Especially for longer term hosting
2. Customer Support: Live online support, very fast email and phone support, technical support is also very good
3. Hosting Space for Files: Unlimited
4. Visitors Allowed / Data Transfer Per Month: Unlimited
5. Add-ons and Freebies: Over $400 Free including domain name / transfer and free advertising credits
6. Other pros: 99.9% uptime guaranteed, easy to use, fast servers, as well as traditional and popular management tools such as CPanel and Webmail. They also provide unlimited MySQL databases, autoresponders and subdomains
7. Cons: None of note
8. Script / Software Support: By Softaculous. Automatically install hundreds of free scripts including Wordpress, Magento, OSCommerce, Live Chat, and much more.

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Ranked #2

Host Monster

1. Price: Good. Especially for longer term hosting
2. Customer Support: Live online support, very fast email and phone support, technical support is also very good. Their support is perhaps even slightly better than Web Hosting Pad.
3. Hosting Space for Files: Unlimited
4. Visitors Allowed / Data Transfer Per Month: Unlimited
5. Add-ons and Freebies: Free search engine submission and $75 in advertising credits. Free domain name for a year.
6. Other pros: 99.9% uptime, easy to use, extremely fast servers, as well as traditional and popular management tools such as CPanel and Webmail. They provide unlimited autoresponders and subdomains
7. Cons: Less freebies and the price is slightly higher than Web Hosting Pad
8. Script / Software Support: By Simple Scripts. Automatically install hundreds of free scripts including Wordpress, Magento, OSCommerce, Live Chat, and more.

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Ranked #3

Blue Host

1. Price: Good
2. Customer Support: Live online support, fairly quick email and phone support, technical support not the fastest but will get the job done. Support is getting better all the time
3. Hosting Space for Files: Unlimited
4. Visitors Allowed / Data Transfer Per Month: Unlimited
5. Add-ons and Freebies: $75 in free advertising credit and a free domain name
6. Other pros: 99.9% network uptime guaranteed; other (i.e. server) uptime is not guaranteed but monitoring shows that it is stable at least 99.8% of the time. Easy to use, fairly quick servers, traditional and popular management tools such as CPanel and Webmail, unlimited subdomains, freedom to play with hosting and install very unique scripts
7. Cons: Tech support is not the best, price does not decrease for longer term hosting
8. Script / Software Support: By Simple Scripts. Automatically install hundreds of free scripts including Wordpress, Magento, OSCommerce, Live Chat, and more.

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Ranked #4

Go Daddy

1. Price: Extremely Good. Even with short term hosting but especially for longer term hosting
2. Customer Support: 24 / 7 phone support. Basic email support is fast. Technical support is not always fast (depending on the complexity of the problem they may want to escalate it which can take a while).
3. Hosting Space for Files: Depends on plan (10GB, 150GB, or Unlimited)
4. Visitors Allowed / Data Transfer Per Month: Unlimited
5. Add-ons and Freebies: Almost $100 in Free Google advertising credits
6. Other pros: Fourth Generation Hosting which claims to be and is in fact is better than single server environments simply because there isn't much variance in speed (slow periods) or outages. Average 99.9% uptime, pretty fast servers, traditional and popular management tools such as Webmail (but not Cpanel - a drawback for developers - it is also quite difficult to navigate around your hosting account unless you are very familiar).
7. Cons: No live online chat, their account tools are a nightmare to manage, not as many scripts available for automatic install as the other options on this list
8. Script / Software Support: By GoDaddy. Install many free scripts including Wordpress, OSCommerce, Zen Cart, and others.

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Ranked #5

Host Papa

1. Price: Good. Especially for longer term hosting
2. Customer Support: Live online support; although email and phone support can be quite slow. Technical support is not the best either. This is the main drawback to HostPapa and the reason it was ranked last.
3. Hosting Space for Files: Unlimited
4. Visitors Allowed / Data Transfer Per Month: Unlimited
5. Add-ons and Freebies: Over $350 Free including domain name / transfer and free advertising
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6. Other pros: GREEN Eco-friendly Web hosting, Average 99.9% uptime, pretty easy to use, fast servers, traditional and popular management tools such as CPanel and Webmail. Unlimited MySQL databases, autoresponders and subdomains
7. Cons: Slow and sometimes poor email, phone, and technical support
8. Script / Software Support: By Fantastico. Automatically install hundreds of free scripts including Wordpress, OSCommerce, Zen Cart, Live Chat, and much more.

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Summary

All in all, our favorite web host is Web Hosting Pad. Not only have our clients enjoyed long term success with them but they offer a host of freebies, features, and tools to their customers. Their support is impeccable, the control panel is easy to navigate, and the value is outstanding. Visit their website now to claim your free domain.

If we developed your website and you want to make sure that the hosting service you choose is suitable for your needs, please contact us