Web Site Hosting Prices
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Web Site Hosting Prices
Web hosting prices vary widely between different companies, who offer different services. When you are looking for web hosting prices, you need to make sure that you compare similar services and features between companies otherwise, the web hosting prices that you get will not tell you very much. Simply looking at prices does not tell you things like bandwidth allowance, storage capacity, number of email accounts available, etc., so you should make sure you know the whole story when you are checking web hosting prices.
GoDaddy.com is one of the more popular hosting services; their 'economy package' is $3.99 per month right now, if you buy a full year at once. That includes 10 GB Space, 300 GB Transfer, 100 Email Accounts, and 10 MySQL Databases.
Bluehost.com is a very popular service that is offering their basic service right now for $3.95 a month. This includes unlimited storage and transfer, over 2,000 email accounts, and 100 MySQL databases. Bluehost also includes domain registration in their hosting packages.
JustHost.com offers a package similar to Bluehost, with unlimited storage and transfer, but also offers unlimited email accounts and unlimited MySQL databases for only $3.45 a month.
HostMonster.com charges $3.95 a month for unlimited storage and transfer, unlimited email accounts, and 100 MySQL databases.
iPage.com offers unlimited storage and transfer, unlimited email accounts, and unlimited MySQL databases for only $3.50 a month.
FatCow.com offers "green hosting" for only $3.67 a month, which also includes unlimited storage, transfer, MySQL databases and email accounts.
SuperGreen Hosting.com offers unlimited storage and transfer, and unlimited email accounts for only $3.95 a month.
InMotion Hosting.com offers unlimited storage and transfer, 5,000 email accounts, and 25 MySQL databases for $5.95 a month. They are also the only company that limited the number of domain names per account to 6 (others allowed unlimited domains to be hosted).
GreenGeeks.com web hosting offers the full package (unlimited storage and transfer, unlimited email accounts, unlimited MySQL databases) for $6.95 a month.
Yahoo! web hosting offers a package at $7.46 for the first three months before going up to $9.95 for the remainder of a full year contract. Yahoo! offers unlimited storage and transfer with 1,000 email accounts.
These hosting services are the most popular, and for the most part the most economical. Each also offers a proprietary website building tool for users and will install popular blogging software like Wordpress or Moveable Type once you have signed up for their service.
As you can see, similar prices do not always indicate similar services, and more expensive prices do not always indicate better service or more features. When you are researching web hosting prices, you have to know what features each company offers, and how the service offered by each company is different. It is also important to read carefully -- many web hosting companies advertise a low monthly rate, but in the fine print tell you that the low rate only lasts a few months.
Always make sure you know what you are getting.