There are many web hosts available and many of them are good services. Web hosting is simply a big server where you can place the files that make up your website. The web hosting services really do not differ that much in what they are trying to accomplish. The differences are in how they make that happen. For the average web host customer, basic services are all that you need.

Pricing for web hosting boils down to speed and bandwidth. Both cost money. The more you need, the more you must spend. The good news is that web hosting is very cheap! It’s also easily scalable. This makes comparing web hosts confusing, but anyone can afford to have good web hosting.

For the vast majority of my customers, I have never encountered traffic levels that go beyond basic web hosting services. It takes an enormous amount of traffic to call for the need of high priced hosting. When a website does reach that level, a simple upgrade to the next level is all that’s required.

Due to the nature of web hosting, it is wise to go with the most popular companies. By doing this, problems are quickly resolved because there are so many users posting solutions that solutions come easily. When this fails, the support is adequate to help as well. I prefer these to web hosting services.

Lunarpages

Lunarpages is by far the best hosting I have had the pleasure of using. I’ve experience very little downtime, and most outages were planned and I was notified before they happened. Their customer support goes above and beyond what I would expect. Their pricing is very reasonable. I trust all of my main anchor websites to Lunarpages web hosting.

Host Gator

If Lunarpages is so great, why do I use Host Gator? They’re cheap and effective enough. It’s that simple. For my website flipping operations, I need a cost effective solution due to the large number of websites I deal with. I also need unlimited accounts available to my reseller account. Host Gator offers everything I need for website flipping and the accounts are good enough for my customers. Host Gator customer service is a little lacking and they’re down times are a little more frequent. It’s a trade-off for cost control.

Is there anybody else that offers web hosting? Yes! There are many companies and many of them are good. As I stated, they’re all trying to do the same thing and all web hosts are striving to make a profit in a very competitive market. I have found it time and cost effective to stay with the web hosts that have already proved to be the most useful to my operations. Opinions may differ, but they are only on slight matters of preference.

Private Web Hosting

I’ve had the requests to either run a website on my own server or work on a website on a company’s private server. I will not work on these configurations. Private web hosting costs an enormous amount to run if your server has any quality at all. There are constant attacks on web servers and it takes an enormous effort to keep them secure. A web hosts company has the resources from many thousands of paid users that they can focus on nothing  but their server activity. Private hosts lack the ability to manage the servers in the same way.

I will not put a customer at risk by working on inadequate hosting. The argument for the private server is that the website owner needs full security and that the only way that they can achieve this is by having a private server. This notion is false.

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