Best and cheapest web hosting solutions for 2012

Do you have plans for a website and are ready to start the process that gets it published? The method is fairly simple but there are two requirements in order to have your site live on the Internet. The first is a domain name. This is the address of your site which ends in .com or .org, etc. There is a small yearly fee for the domain name and a multitude of companies on the Internet that will provide the service for you. The second requirement is a good web hosting company. The web host supplies the “parking space” for your site and makes it available from their servers to the World Wide Web. To help you find a web host, let’s take a look at five top quality hosting companies.

QUALITY WEB HOSTING SERVICES

Purely Hosting – Their most popular plan is the Pro Silver and costs $9.95 per month. This includes hosting for up to five websites, unlimited space, a website builder, unlimited emails and a control panel. They offer a cheaper service if you only have one website, and a more expensive plan if you need the space for an unlimited number of sites. Purely Hosting uses top quality servers that are controlled by Intel Xeon processors. A support staff is available 24 hours a day by email, phone or chat to answer any of your questions. Traffic generating help and assistance with SEO is provided for you also.

Brain Host – Brain Hosts best value is a plan that runs you $7.95 per month. With this package you will get unlimited hosting, 24/7 customer support, unlimited domain names and email accounts, a free website builder and a guarantee of 99.9% uptime. That guarantee means that their system very rarely experiences any problems that would knock your website off the web. Brain Host also offers packages that include free traffic and SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization and pertains to keywords and site ranking.

GoDaddy – Probably the most advertised and best known hosting company on the Internet. They provide a long list of services and products to suit any person or company on the planet including site development, web storage and email services. As far as hosting plans, their most popular package will cost you about $6.64 a month and comes with 150 GB of space, unlimited websites and bandwidth, 500 email accounts, 25 databases and free credits for Google Ads, Bing, Yahoo and Facebook. They say that their cloud hosting is totally secure and lightning-fast. 

Network Solutions – Their middle-of-the-road package will run you $12.41 a month. They do have available a cheaper plan and a more expensive plan depending on your needs. The $12.41 plan includes 500 GB of disc space, unlimited data transfer, 2500 email boxes and one free domain. Some other features of this plan are a website building tool, worry-free uptime, easy FTP access and 24 hour customer support. Online storage and file sharing is also available and offers a secure and safe method of communicating sensitive materials. You can also have your email address match your web address to simplify your business correspondence. Network Solutions email service is protected by Cloudmark Authority which guards against spam and viruses.

LunarPages – Lunarpages also has a large variety of plans to choose from but we will use the Windows Web Hosting plan which runs $9.95 per month. This plan includes set-up and domain name registration, 5000 MB of storage, unlimited email accounts, 400 GB of bandwidth, compatibility with Dreamweaver and a FTP account. Lunarpages also offers media support for Microsoft Silverlight, streaming video/audio, Flash and Shockwave.