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Excellent bargain and reliability with fast data transfer; good site builder; exclusive NextAdvisor discount |
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Low cost with ok reliability; easy shopping cart creator; green host; 50% exclusive discount |
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Great price w/ exclusive discount and free domain privacy; fast data transfer; great add-ons |
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Well-priced with free domain privacy, nice site builder; average data-transfer speed |
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Excellent choice for beginners has great interface and support but high costs; 25%-off discount |
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An excellent, though pricey choice for beginners; includes green hosting; 20% discount with code: SNOWMAN |
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Great online site builder for beginners; excellent upload and download speeds; $50 off with code: Christmas |
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Cheapest annual plan but somewhat weak performance and reliability; easy shopping cart creator; exclusive discount |
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A good bargain for two domains and great tools; outsourced support is average |
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A reasonably priced option with great performance; exclusive discount code: SPECIAL20OFF |
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For intermediate to advanced users; fast data transfer; green hosting; free domain privacy |
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Good price, but pokey performance; better suited for intermediate users with non-media sites |
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A good choice for intermediate users; green hosting and domain privacy are a plus, though data was slow on big files |
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Affordable web host for intermediate users, though installation problems; no domain privacy and advertising on error pages are drawbacks |
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Adequate web hosting for intermediate users; limited MySQL databases |
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Discounted first year; frustrating limitations for advanced users but very fast; counter-intuitive for beginners |
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Aimed at small businesses with its full-featured site builder, good speed and uptime; pricey and limited plan |
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Easy for beginners but very limited; a lack of blog and shopping cart are disappointing |
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Lunarpages discount: 50% off
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Lunarpages is one of our favorite web hosts, a solid performer with a great site builder and control panel. For one weekend only they’re offering 50% off of their one- and two-year plans. That puts two years at just under $3.50, and one year at about $4.50. It’s a limited-time offer, so you do have [...]
New Lunarpages discount coupon
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Lunarpages web hosting discount for a happier Halloween
One of our favorite top-quality web hosts, Lunarpages, is celebrating the spooky season with a discount on its two-year plans. Normally, if you want their $4.95-per-month price, you have to go for a five-year plan. Currently, the discount code “Halloween” gives you that same $4.95 price on a two-year plan. This is better than their [...]
ZoneAlarm offers 50% off: Virus and identity theft protection in one
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The death of a web host; the Internet says goodbye to GeoCities
In the relatively short history of the web, GeoCities is a bit of a marker. The service has been providing beginning web publishers with free web hosting since 1994. That is, up until yesterday when Yahoo! finally shuttered the site. Things on the web have changed in the last fifteen years, and the ad-supported service [...]
New web hosting reviews added, Register.com hosting gets discount
It’s been a big week in web hosting. Last week we launched four more hosting reviews: iPage, BlueHost, Register.com, and Dreamhost. Both BlueHost and iPage shake out at the cheaper end of things. Register.com, the stalwart domain registrar also offers web hosting. Normally it’s one of the more expensive plans (at $11.95 per month for [...]
Yahoo! 50% web hosting discount still active?
The official word was that Yahoo!’s great $4.99-per-month web hosting discount was supposed to end last Thursday. But it seems like the deal is still going strong. We have no idea for how long you’ll still be able to get this price (which amounts to 50% off for the first twelve months). It’s a really [...]
Did you know?
Registering a domain is just the first step in putting a site on the web. If you want to put a website at a domain, you need web hosting. Essentially, every website needs a computer behind it, pushing out the text, graphics, audio, video, and other web goodies to every computer than connects to it. In the language of the Internet, these computers are dedicated machines called servers. As the name implies, their job is to serve websites, and they do it 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Instead of maintaining your own server, a web host lets you use space on its servers for a monthly or yearly hosting fee.
View our full comparison and reviews of the best web hosting services
How We Reviewed These Web Hosts
Our in-house reviewers have signed up for and used every service you see here. In developing the ratings they looked for services that provide quality web hosting at inexpensive prices. Our reviewers tested Wordpress installations, shopping cart programs, and site builders. They also contacted technical support at each web host to determine the quality of customer service. Finally, they tested the data transfer speed by FTPing an 83MB test site and downloading a 78MB movie.
How to Create a Website
After you’ve set up your web hosting account, you can decide how you want to build a website. Most web hosts offer you a way to build a site right in your web browser. There are also site-building programs from companies like Adobe, Apple, and Microsoft (as well as free options) that provide greater flexibility. If you want an easier start, try creating a blog. Most web hosts allow you to do this in just a few clicks, and you can incorporate it into a more full-featured site later, when you’re ready.
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