Recommended Hosting Companies

 

The website hosting companies listed below are the ones we feel offer the best mix of price, performance and features. We use them ourselves (this website is hosted on our HostMonster account!). Each excels in all of the areas we've suggested your look at on our advice pages and we have no reservations about recommending them to you. Prices are generally about the same for each company but from time to time they all offer special deals so its worth checking them all out to see who's giving the best price when you want to buy. Take out at least a 1 year plan to avoid setup fees or a longer plan to get a lower overall cost. Whichever host you decide upon we know you'll be pleased.

 

 

	HostMonster	BlueHost	ImHosted	PowWeb
Cost / month (based on 1 year term)	$7.95	$7.95	$7.95	$7.77
Webspace	300GB	300GB	1000GB	300GB
Bandwidth / month	3000GB	3000GB	5000GB	3000GB
Unlimited Domains	yes	yes	yes	yes
Control Panel	yes	yes	yes	yes
Automatic software installer (to get standard sites setup instantly)	yes	yes	yes	yes

As you can see the plans we've selected are very alike in cost and features. They all offer high quality services so please have a look at each site to see who's giving the best deal. Most will also give you a free domain name if you go for at least the 1 year plan together with free pay per click advertising vouchers you can use at Google Adwords, Yahoo and MSN  - usually worth more than your first year's worth of hosting fees.

 

The important factor we've gone for is the unlimited domains feature. Without this you won't be able to use your full allowance of web space and bandwidth - most hosting companies know you can't use more than a few GB of web space for 1 website so they can offer unlimited web space in the knowledge you won't be able to use it. These companies are basically inviting you to get the full benefit of their service and provide all the tools you need to build extra blogs, forums, discussion sites, wiki sites and anything else you can think of.