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submitted: Jul 29th 2008 | by: MattHedges | Total views: 1 | Word Count: 993 | |

The scope of hosting services varies widely and depends largely on the websites. People are often offered hosting services by the Internet Service providers free of cost or web page hosting services are purchased from professionals. It has been observed that hosting personal websites are always cheaper than hosting business websites. A professional hosting services provided by a company would include control panel for managing Web Server and installing scripts. There are several directories available over the internet that can be accessed for searching a service provider.

While selecting a hosting service provider, one has to carefully go through the services and packages that they are offering. Hosting service providers often offer discounts on packages which can be effective for those hunting for cheap services. Host Uptime is a big factor that has to be taken into consideration. Uptime refers to the total time the host is accessible through internet. If performance goals promised by the professionals are not met, the owner can ask for a refund or cut down of cost. These factors however depend on the company principles and hosting policies.

There are several different types of web host including:

* Dedicated hosting: When you have complete control of your website and the server that is dedicated hosting as it is available only to you.

* Managed hosting: When the user gets a separate server, for himself or herself but cannot access it independently, it is called managed hosting. Such servers are leased to clients.

* Virtual hosting: This service provides you the feeling that you have your own dedicated space but you are actually sharing it with all of the other websites the host serves. Your access is limited to your space on the server.

* Free hosting: While this service is free to host a site, it is also accompanied by ads.

There are a few other types of hosting services such as grid, collocation, clustered, shared, and reseller web hosts.

Web hosting services are offered by most of the companies as a general internet access plan. Web hosting packages include all those services mentioned above along with web site designing and email, battery backup, online billing information, web content management systems and technical services.

You as a potential user should consider each host through several different parameters and make your decision based on these issues. The support provided, the amount of disk space available, Uptime, limits on bandwidth, SSL (secured socket layer) are a few of the most important needs to consider. A list of the top 5 web hosts are listed below based on these qualifications:

Top 5 hosting companies are mentioned below:

1. Hostmonster- This web host service has been in existence since 1996. They have a reputation for providing great service at a low cost. Their backup system is secure and reliable their customers have a great sense of security. They provide a large amount of information on their use and procedure to give visitors a clear understanding of their performance.

There are a large number of hosting features this company gives its customers including:

* Disc storage

* Provision of domain name

* Email support

* Additional domains

* Domain parking capability

* World class technology

* E-commerce ability

* multimedia ability

* Promotional

* web site promotions

2. Inmotion hosting: This company that has been in service to its clients since 2001 and has a world-wide customer base. Their flexibility and reliable service is something they are often praised for. Immotion Hosting has achieved recognition with the Top Business Host Award 2008 and is listed in the top 10 host companies. They have achieved awards for all of their services in 2003, 2006, 2007, and 2008. Their dedication is well known to their customers. Immotion Hosting has a partnership with SWsoft as an official partner, CNET Certified Service provider, and BBB reliability program. Services include:

* Private Virtual server

* Virtual private servers available

* Business Class hosting

* Cheap personal web hosting

* Management capability

3. Bluehost: This company is one of the top web hosts around and have been serving the internet community since 1996. Their high-quality service and reliable and wide-ranging Uptime are just a few of the many services this company offers. They have a superb server environment, easy to use control panel, quality security features and more for their customers. Their reliability is what their customers have come to depend on. Their clients benefit from their many services as much as they do.

Apart from the basic web hosting services, the company offers:

* Plug-ins for scripts such as forum, polls and serveys, moodle, nuke, and Tikiwiki along with many others.

* A vast array of e-commerce features with shipping cart by Agora, a cube cart created shopping cart, password protection for their directories amongst others.

* Their list includes multimedia functions and top technology.

4. RackSpace Inc: Rackspace is a UK based company that began its service in 1996. They are registered as Rackspace LTD and are known to be one of Europe's top web host servers. Amongst the many large businesses that use Rackspace are Vue, OnSpeed, Renault, and Confused.com. Rackspace was included in 'The Sunday Times' list of 2007 best companies.

* Their service includes solutions for companies of all sizes.

* Management configuration and green configuration provided.

* Visualization

* Email access

* Database

* Database provisions

* Backup storage systems

* Administration and reports

5. Godaddy.com: Godaddy is one of the Internet's most popular web hosts amoungst personal and business web host customers. They are flexible and authentic and have awards in their list that provide good proof of the quality of their service and their prominence in the industry of web hosting. They use lucrative discounts and promotions to entice customers which can be valuable for those seeking cheap hosting service. Along with their discounts they continue to offer the same services as big host services.

A sample of the services offered by this company are:

* 20% discounts available on packages

* Expanded websites also qualify for discounts along with web designers

* Easy to use site builders

* Site Builders

* Websites for both commerce and business

* Expanded websites

* Web developers can get the offers as well as individuals

About the Author

About the author: Matthew Hedges is a veteran of the web hosting industry and the head staff writer for WebHostingMadness.com, a web hosting review site.

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