Paid Web Hosting Providers

After you try out free web hosting, you may want to start a serious website perhaps one with a good business model or one that you would expect lots of people to come to. Paid web hosting gives you the right solution for that. Paid web hosting offers more disk space and bandwith for your website. Disk space is the amount of memory that stores your files on the server. This shouldn't be a problem as most websites require little disk space. Bandwith is the amount of downloaded materials from your website to the people around the world visiting your website. Paid web hosting offers considerably more bandwith compared to free paid hosting and caters to websites with high traffic. Like I said before there are no official paid web hosting providers on the internet and below are some of the most recommended paid web hosting solutions for your website. Most paid web hosting providers are also domain registrars. This means that you can get a new domain name with them. Choose your domain name carefully as you will need to stick to it for at least one year and although you can resell it, it takes both time and sometimes capital to do so.


Go Daddy

• Godaddy Deluxe Plan for Linux


• $6.64/mo for 1 year plan


• $1.99 domain with hosting plan purchase


• 150 GB Disk Space


• 1500 GB Bandwith


• 25 MySQL Database


• FTP


• Upgradable plan


• 500 Email accounts with 100MB space per email


• HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP 4 or 5, Phpmyadmin, Python, Java, Perl, Frontpage Server Extensions(i.e. you don't need to worry about language compatibility)


• Applications provided


• Send unlimited emails


• $50 Microsoft adcenter credit or $25 Google adwords credit


• Host unlimited websites in one plan


• 100% Ads-Free


• Your Ads Allowed


• Discount coupons available


• Domain Example: http://www.dolin.com


• Email Example: myname@dolin.com


• Go daddy offers a complete web hosting solution for webmasters. The plan above is the linux plan meant for websites in the most updated PHP language. If your website is in ASP language, you should choose the similar windows plan. Godaddy is a trusted web hosting company and with one hosting account you can host many websites. The control panel is unique and gives good experience. However the loading time is quite long. It has some one click installer but it does not offer phpbb3 yet. Rather it uses Simple Machine Forum. Go daddy is also a domain registrar and if you buy a hosting plan with them it is also recommended to buy a domain with them for easier installation. With this hosting plan, you can send unlimited automatic emails from their server but if you want to send via uniqe emails, there are more plans you have to buy. I recommend this web host as it is competitive and trustable. Godaddy also has discount coupons that sell new domains for as low as $6.95 a year and 20% off hosting plan.
  
  Godaddy hot coupons(until end of 2008)
  
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Yahoo Web Hosting

• Yahoo All In One Hosting


• $11.95/month ($8.96 for first 3 months)


• Free domain name per hosting plan


• Unlimited Disk Space


• Unlimited Bandwith


• Unlimited MySQL Database


• FTP


• Not upgradable plan


• 1000 Email accounts with unlimited space per email


• HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP 4 or 5, Phpmyadmin


• Applications provided


• Send unlimited emails


• $100 Yahoo marketing credit or $50 Google adwords credit


• 100% Ads-Free


• Your Ads Allowed


• Domain Example: http://www.dolin.com


• Email Example: myname@dolin.com


• Yahoo web hosting offers a non-fussy all in one solution for webmasters. Its hosting plan comes with a free domain name that lasts as long as you are still using the plan. This plan uses the Unix Operating system and is only suitable for websites in PHP language. This plan is not for websites written in ASP language. It also offers one click application installer including phpbb forum. The unlimitability of Yahoo Web Hosting can be questioned as there is no server with unlimited space. However it said so far it is comfortable with the space webmasters are currently using on its servers. Yahoo web hosting is meant for websites based in the US and it is not really customizable. If you do not want to go into tinkering your hosting plan, you can go for Yahoo web hosting which will save you the worry and focus on your website.

Free Web Hosting Provider

Here are the lists to some of the best free web hosting providers. Each of them has their terms of service which are largely similar containing conditions such as "No Adult Contents" and "No Spamming". Some of them like Page Creator are strictly controlled while some are loosely controlled.

Page Creator

• Google Page Creator


• 100 MB * 3 Disk Space


• No FTP


• No Database


• HTML, Javascript, CSS


• No Applications


• Gmail Requirements


• WYSIWYG Editor


• Ready Templates


• No SMTP


• 100% Ads-Free


• Your Ads Allowed


• Subdomain Example: http://dolin.googlepages.com


• Google Page Creator is the most recommended web hosting provider for beginners. It allows one gmail account users to have 3 different websites of 100 MB each with the starting subdomain using you gmail username. As Google has strong financial backings, this is the web host that will likely remain dominant in the free web hosting circles.

Awardspace

• Awardspace


• 200MB Disk Space


• FTP


• MySQL Database


• HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP4, PHP5


• No Applications


• No WYSIWYG Editor


• No Ready Templates


• No photo referencing


• No SMTP


• 100% Ads-Free


• Your Ads Allowed


• Subdomain Example: http://dolin.awardspace.com


• Awardspace is among the best of the free web host for beginners to try their website live on a remote server. You can write your scripts in advanced PHP language or simple HTML. There are no forced ads and you can also put up your own ads. They also have a paid web hosting plan which is a good sign that the website will be able to sustain itself. The weakness is that when you upload your photo to Awardspace, you cannot link to it from websites outside Awardspace. This is definitely not suited for people who wantsto start a photo gallery.

Choosing The Right Web Hosting Plans

As each of us comes from a variety of backgrounds, we have to select the right web hosting plans to cater to our needs and specifications. As a general rule, if you are new to the internet and computer industry, you shoud first get your hands on free web hosting companies. There are two types of free web hosting companies. The first type of web hosting companies provides free web hosting plans with web site creating tools including free and ready templates as well as WYSIWYG editor. WYSIWYG is short for What You See Is What You Get. This kind of web hosting is suitable for first timers. Google just recently started such a web hosting plan not long ago which is branded Page Creator. Another big web hosting company is Yahoo which offers a similar service to Google branded under Geocities. They have beautiful and easy templates to choose from and if you are wondering if your website will really work with Page Creator or Geocities, I have personally tried Page Creator and my web site works perfectly. Another type of free web hosting plan is where the hosting company provide you with free storage capacity where you have to upload your created web site to their server via FTP. There is little or no WYSIWYG editor in these hosting plans but the great bonus is that you usually have a larger storage capacity compared to the WYSIWYG hosting plans and you can write web page in advanced programming languages like PHP or ASP. Examples of such great free hosting companies are Awardspace and 987mb. Some of these web hosting companies offer only PHP made web site, some only ASP made web site and rarely do they offer both. If you are lost on the technical terms here, let me explain to you firstly what is FTP. FTP is short for File Transfer Protocol. It is an express service that web hosting companies provide members of their hosting plans to upload their files to the server. The difference between the traditional file upload one by one that you get in WYSIWYG hostng company and FTP hosting company is that in the latter, you can copy from your local computer a whole folder consisting of web pages and paste it into the server. This would be extremely useful if you have many web pages like hundreds in numbers. Now let's get to PHP. PHP short for Hypertext Preprocessor is an important and advanced programming languages for publishers to create dynamic web pages. It is developed from an open source solely for developing web site. ASP is short for Active Server Pages whose functions are largely similar to PHP in developing web site. It is developed by Microsoft. If you are new, it would suffice to create a web site in HTML. HTML created web site works in all web hosting companies.

Paid hosting are for those who want to have large storage capacity on the server and has voluminous amounts of traffic. You cannot expect a gigantic web site like friendster to exist on a free web host. Other than storage capacity there is also the need for a unique domain name. You can get a unique domain name from a paid hosting. A domain name is the name of your website for example www.crystallight.com. To get this domain name, you can check with a domain registrar whether the domain name is available. Some paid hosting companies are also domain name registrar. You can register for a domain name with domain name registrar for a fixed repeating annual fee. An example is Godaddy which offers free hosting, paid hosting and domain name registration. Free web hosting do not offer unique domain name and all end with a suffix of the web hosting company's brand name. For example, if you choose Page Creator as your web hosting service, all your web pages will end with googlepages.com. The resulting name will be longer which will result in crystallight.googlepages.com. Notice it does not begins with www, a typical sign that it is a subdomain of a free web host.

If you really need a unique domain name and anticipate a large traffic, even if you are a novice, go for paid web hosting. If you just want to try creating a web site, go for free web hosting.

Welcome to Hosting Plans Web

Welcome to Hosting Plans Web. There have been so many web hosting companies on the world wide web available that I have to try and gather the most important and useful ones. I will write reviews on web hosting companies and recommend to the viewers some of the most popular web hosting companies available on the world wide web. The web hosting listing that I will gather will include free web hosting plans and paid web hosting plans. There will always be people in need of free web hosting and always some advanced publishers in need of paid web hosting with superior disk storage to store their large files. I hope you can find your web hosting needs in this blogger and create a web site with great web hosting plans.