Top 10 Best Web Hosting Companies for Price-Conscious Consumers

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Let’s face it, when shopping for hosting not all of us have impressive budgets; especially if it’s our first time purchasing web space to host our website. If you’re a price-conscious consumer you will be happy to know that you can get your website hosted pretty inexpensively these days. All because on a regular basis multiple hosting companies compete for your business by offering some great promos, where everyone who has just a few bucks a month to spend on hosting, can get a deal. They compete, you win.

With these consumers in mind we’ve decided to compile a list of the top 10 consumer-favored web hosting companies that offer affordable hosting packages. The below list was formed from 10 hosts hand-picked from over 100 hosting options, based on the cheapest pricing they offer at the time of this post… Enjoy, and do feel free to chime in with your comments, should you want to share first-hand experience with any of these:

Top 10 Best Web Hosting Companies (Affordable Plans)

1. Web Hosting Pad — Their promotional $1.99/month plan comes with Unlimited Hosting Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, FREE domain name, Unlimited Email Accounts, and a number of other attractive features. Web Hosting Pad prides itself in 100% US-based support, which has already been awarded a Best Hosting Support award for 2011.
2. Midphase — Starter Plan (starting from only $2.95 per month) offers Linux hosting for 1 Domain (which you may register free of charge at signup), 1 Database, Unlimited Web Space, and Unlimited Bandwidth. It’s worth pointing out that Midphase’s other hosting plans are quite affordable as well.
3. iPage — The iPage Essential Plan (at $2.95 a month) offers you Unlimited Disk Space, Bandwidth and Email, Free Domain Name, Free Security Suite and Site-Building Tools (that allow you to create a new site in just 10 minutes), Free Online Store, and some Yahoo! & Facebook Marketing Credits too.
4. PowWeb — This company is famous for their One Plan package (currently priced: $3.88/month) which aims at providing “a complete All-in-One hosting solution with plenty of disk space, bandwidth and additional features”. Here are just some of the highlights: Unlimited Hosting, Free Domain, Ability to Host Unlimited Domains, Support of MySQL, PHP, CGI, SSL, FTP, and Stats, Point & Click Site Builder, $150 in Google, Yahoo!/Bing & Facebook Ad Credits, Free Yellowpages.com Listing, E-Commerce Features, and more.
5. HostPapa — The HostPapa Plan (at $3.95 per month) offers such features as: Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, Unlimited Domain Names on one account, 1 Free Domain Name for Life, Personal Website Tools, Free Soholaunch site builder software, and 30-day money-back guarantee.
6. IX Web Hosting — With their Expert Plan (at just $3.95 per month) they will commit to Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, and Unlimited Hosted Domains, as well as 2 Free Dedicated IPs (good for SEO), and 1 Free Domain Name Registration.
7. HostGator — Hatchling Plan (which costs $3.96 per month) comes with Unlimited Disk Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, 1 Allowed Domain, Ulimited Sub Domains, FTP Accounts and MySQL Databases, Site Builder, Instant Backups, 45-day Money Back Guarantee (this is a huge plus, as most hosts offer only 30-day money-back guarantee), and $100 in Google AdWords Credits. IMPORTANT: While this hosting company ranks only #7 on this list, we believe it to be one of the top hosting providers in the world. Think about it: at the time of this post they host over 5 million domains!
8. GoDaddy.com — Their Economy plan from GoDaddy (at $4.24 per month) includes 10 GB of Space, Unlimited Bandwidth, 10 MySQL Databases, and 100 Email Accounts.
9. MyHosting.com — Basic Linux Hosting Plan (at $4.84 per month) offer you “all the resources and tools you need to start a blog, set up a web album, or store your files.” This includes but is not limited to: Unlimited Hosting Space, Unlimited File Transfer, Unlimited Domain Hosting, Free Domain Name, Free Outlook Email, and a $25 Google Adwords Voucher.
10. BlueHost — At $4.95 this hosting company will provide you with Unlimited Domain Hosting, Unlimited GB Hosting Space, Unlimited GB File Transfer, Unlimited E-mail Accounts, Free Domain, Free Site Builder with templates, Secure Shell, SSL, FTP, Stats, CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL, $75 Free Google Credit, and 99.9% Network Uptime Guarantee.

Besides the above-quoted companies, the following ones also tend to have interesting hosting promos, and are worth a look:

And again, if we’ve missed a hosting company that belongs here, or if you would like to share your experience with any of the above-mentioned ones, please use the “Comments” function below.

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