Cheap Web Hosting
Here is a list of the most popular cheap web hosting services. This cheap web hosting list will detail the lowest possible monthly price of each service, note shorter plans and their usually higher month-to-month costs, as well as give a brief summary of each web hosting provider.
Hostgator - $4.95/mo (Shorter plans will end up being around $7-9/mo)
Hostgator can’t be beat in terms of customer service: Hostgator’s web hosting service is universally praised. Hostgator hosting has many great features like fantastico, which allows instant installs of various web site software programs, such as blogs. Hostgator’s cheap web hosting also offers some of the most generous hosting around, with unlimited bandwidth, disk space, and the ever rare: unlimited MYSQL space. Hostgator web hosting doesn’t let down on the price factor either. Plans start as cheap as $4.95, but it’s more realistic to plan on the better $7.95 plan in most cases. Hostgator is worth a few extra dollars. Save yourself the trouble of having to switch over to Hostgator later on over sub-par service at another webhost.
DreamHost - $5.95/mo ($10.95 month-to-month plan)
Dreamhost has been around for over a decade. Dreamhost was founded in April 1996 by Dallas Bethune, Sage Weil, Michael Rodriguez, and Josh Jones, undergraduate students at Harvey Mudd College. It maintains a business casual environment, which has it’s benefits in that they maintain a Dreamhost Status blog and other ways of trying to keep you informed, vastly moreso than their web hosting competitors. DreamHost also offers unlimited disk space, bandwidth, as well as being one of the few web hosts offering unlimited MYSQL. There is an included from Dreamhost: free domain. Prices range from as cheap as $5.95 if order far, far in advance (but it’s beneficial if you consider inflationary trends), or $8.95 for a shorter, yet still inexpensive billing cycle.
JustHost - $4.95/mo
JustHost web hosting is one of the best rated web hosting services on the web, if not the best. Worth a check. JustHost is a cheap web hosting company that has some relatively standard offerings: free domain, unlimited hosting bandwidth, disk space. It also has a guaranteed 99.9% uptime, while most other companies avoid “guaranteeing” their uptime, JustHost has boldy guaranteed it. And in the web hosting business where 99% uptime could mean 4 days offline a year, having completely guaranteed uptime is a great thing indeed.
Web Hosting Pad - $3.96/mo
At Web Hosting Pad, limits are taboo. It seems every possible feature has “unlimited” next to it: bandwidth, disk space, MYSQL, e-mail, domains, subdomains, etc. It’s all unlimited. And at $4.95 a month for the 1 year plan, Web Hosting Plan is cheap web hosting that promises you everything. Web Hosting Pad had a few issues when they started up (don’t we all?), but has won over many with their customer service, one of the universally better rated cheap web hosting services.
LunarPages - $4.95/mo (seasonal special)
LunarPages web hosting service is reliable. LunarPages is one of the few inexpensive web hosting services that survived multiple LA blackouts without outages where the many other cheap web hosting companies from California, the hub of internet tech, failed. LunarPages has a free domain name, unlimited storage and transfer, and at that amazingly cheap price.
iPowerWeb - $9.95/mo
iPowerWeb Hosting offers great web hosting services. iPowerWeb has really improved their service greatly in the past few years, and earned a large customer base for their efforts. As a relatively cheap web hosting company, they also offer solid support, and have been in the business for a long time, and are improving, whereas many other web hosting services seem to get worse over time, iPowerWeb hosting has been getting better and better.
StartLogic - $3.95/mo
StartLogic web hosting offers some of the cheapest web hosting plans at an amazing $3.95 per month. Possibly one of the cheapest consistent rate required to pay even among all of the more popular cheap web hosting services. However, it only supports 10 domains, so if you’re going to use less than that, StartLogic won’t be quite such a cheap web host.
ThinkHost - $7.95/month
“ThinkHost” web hosting service offers green web hosting in a new way. Not only is it powered “by wind and sun”, ThinkHost has taken green web hosting to a whole new level. ThinkHost web hosting will actually plant a tree for every customer they get. Regardless of whichever side of the “global warming/cooling” argument you’re on, taking care of our planet is always a good idea, and ThinkHost offers green web hosting at a great low price. I’ve also generally found that those web hosting services who go green, generally also treat their hosting customers better.
Yahoo Web Hosting - $9.95/mo
Yahoo Web Hosting is under $10/mo and from a reliable web hosting company. Yahoo certainly isn’t going out of business anytime soon, and the only buyout threats come from even more relatively reliable companies such as Microsoft and Google. Yahoo Web Hosting offers unlimited bandwidth and disk space, of course.
Web.com - $19.95/mo
Web.com web hosting is certainly not the cheapest, but it might just be the most professional. One big bonus is there are no setup fees, and no contracts. That means you can pay month-to-month for the high quality service. Besides, $20/mo a relative norm among cheaper web hosting services, as opposed to dedicated hosting. Web.com certainly will emphasize quality over price. You get what you pay for, after all.
PowWeb- $7.77/mo ($3.88/mo for the first year)
PowWeb offers unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth, free domain, etc. To top it off they have a “unique” level of reliability delivering your pages from many servers rather than one. You wouldn’t put all your eggs in the same basket, so why your server? PowWeb helps keep your site online and running with this revolutionary method.
Dot5 Hosting - $4.95/mo
Dot5 Hosting offers very cheap web hosting. Their affordable web hosting services include free setup, 30 day money back guarantee, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited disk space, and a free domain.
HostMonster - $5.95/mo
HostMonster web hosting has free setup, a free domain, unlimited bandwidth and disk space, with Quad Processor Performance Servers. HostMonster also will back-up your website for you as part of their “courtesy back-ups”.
Aplus.net Web Hosting - $7.95/mo
Aplus.net offers a great and competitive web hosting service, but that’s not all, they also have web design and other services that are available.
Network Solutions - $9.96/mo
Network Solutions is one of the premier web hosting services, yet still an affordable web hosting service, though perhaps it can’t be classified as a “cheap web host” Network Solutions is the epitome of professional in this industry their name carries that standard well. Network Solutions also has a great, cheap domain registration service, as well as offering web design.
BlueHost - $6.95/mo
BlueHost offers unlimited disk space, bandwidth, and domains for it’s budget hosting plans. BlueHost also offers other great features like fantastico, and a free domain name. BlueHost was one of the best rated web hosting services on the web. The past year has seen changes in leadership and a definite shift in client satisfaction.
IX Web Hosting - $5.95/mo
IX Web Hosting offers a great package, sure the usual unlimited web space, and bandwidth, however also unlimited domains, even for it’s cheapest package. IX Web Hosting used to have many positive mentions on the web, but has in recent months also seen customer satisfaction deteriorating, possibly due to management changes and subsequent chaning of policy.
1&1 Hosting - $3.99/mo
1&1 web hosting has always offered some of the best, cheap web hosting plans available. Perhaps due to inflation (1and1 hosting is an international company, after all), presumably, 1and1’s price was risen form their amazing $2.99 in past years now to $3.99 per month. But in order to get more features you may find yourself upgrading, though the number of free domains you receive increases which offsets much of the increase in price. Another major bonus is that 1&1 hosting has probably the most convenient interface I’ve ever used out of dozens of web hosts to compare to. 1and1 web hosting was my first web hosting company (I test dozens at any given time), I’ve been with 1and1 for many years with no major problems, though it may lack some features and proper technical support that the more advanced webmasters may need. 1&1 web hosting is geared towards the more casual webmaster. However, a recurring issue that comes up in many 1&1 complaints seems to be that it is difficult to cancel service with 1&1 hosting.
GoDaddy Hosting - $4.99/mo
GoDaddy is world famous for domain registration, and perhaps is becoming almost equally as popular for web hosting. GoDaddy has a cheap 3 month registration cycle available for $4.99 per month, popular reception has been relatively lukewarm.
Netfirms Web Hosting- $4.45/mo ($8.95/mo for unlimited domains)
NetFirms offers professional web hosting as if it were a cheap web host. NetFirms’ largest package is only $12.95/mo, comes with ASP, MS-SQL, SSI, and not to mention 5 free domain names (could save you $30-50 a year depending on where you buy).
Apollo Hosting - under $10/mo
At this current time, Web Host Verdict will not be recommending Apollo Hosting. After they resolve a current issue with their hosting, then we may consider re-endorsing them. However, aside from this minor issue Apollo Hosting has some comparatively high performance ratings in the industry.
ProNet Web Hosting - $4.95/mo
ProNet Hosting may be in actuality the cheapest web hosting service if you want “pay as you go hosting” with no web hosting contract. With ProNet web hosting is possible to pay month to month for their inexpensive hosting service. Though the first month has a minor $10 setup fee, after that you can pay the tiny $4.95, month to month, rather than buying years in advance as other “cheap” web hosting services require. They offer a free domain, and plenty of disk space and bandwidth you’ll probably never use. So if you want one of the cheapest web hosting services, ProNet Hosting is the way to go.
