An Overview of the Five Small Business Web Hosting Services

If you need small business web hosting for your website, you should always go for the best you can afford. Hosting of your site is an important investment and should be chosen carefully.

But with so many web hosting companies out there, which one should you go for? Below are five of the best small business web hosting companies today.

Bluehost.com.
BlueHost has top-of-the-line features that you can expect from any web hosting company worth its salt. It has multiple database support, a control panel, provision for 1,000 FTP and 2,500 email addresses, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space. The pricing scheme is also competitive, starting at $9.95 for three months. As for tech support, their techs are quick to respond to queries and it seems that they really know what they are talking about.

The only thing fishy about BlueHost is that their Terms of Service contains a rather suspicious clause about activity monitoring. Accounts are recorded and maybe perused at will by the authorities, especially when deemed inappropriate.

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IX Web Hosting is one of the biggest small business web hosting companies in the United States today. It maintains nearly half a million domains and owns 1% of the market shares in small business web hosting. Its pricing is very affordable at $4.95 monthly. It claims to offer unlimited space and bandwidth.

The one thing that makes IX Web Hosting imperfect is its tech support. Its outsourced tech support people are not well-versed with IX’s business.

StartLogic

StartLogic offers shared small business web hosting, and it is one of the biggest small business web hosting companies in the United States in this category. However, there are reports that they are overselling, so it is possible that StartLogic clients may be able to utilize their allocations fully unless they are using a dedicated server.

Nonetheless, StartLogic has all the standard features to be expected from small business web hosting. It has two winning aspects. One is that downtime is rare with StartLogic and the other is that it has a pretty pricing package that begins with $3.95 monthly. Bandwidth and disk space allocation, however, is limited.

GoDaddy

GoDaddy is known for being among the cheapest web hosting services in the market today. One can get 5GB disk space and 250GB bandwidth for a starter small business web hosting account costing $3.59 monthly. Its uptime is excellent, and is reported to offer better uptime than small business web hosting industry standards.

But then again, its uptime is also due to the fact that they ask high-traffic websites to transfer to dedicated servers. Customer support is also below par for this small business web hosting service.

Dot5 Web Hosting

Dot5 is owned and managed by the same company that runs StartLogic. If you are in the midst of choosing between the two, there is no contest because these two small business web hosting services offer exactly the same features and pricing.

They also share the same flaw: It is reported that they oversell far too much. This would not be good for websites that have high traffic because it is highly likely that such websites would not be able to make use of the allocations they pay for at optimum levels.

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