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Inexpensive but Reliable Web Hosting Starter Packages

Web hosting doesn’t have to be up-market to be reliable.

These low cost Web hosting providers are encomiastic options for business websites with less than 10,000 visitors per month. If you get more than that, start thinking about mid-level hosting options that cost between $20 – $50.

Basics that we expect for less than $10:

• Unlimited MySQL databases
• Unlimited domains / websites
• Unlimited or high bandwidth limits (more than 100 Gb per month)
• Decent period — more than 10 Gb
• Lots of email addresses — more than 100

This list is sorted in the systematization I would recommend to a small business just getting started online.

1. Yahoo! Web Hosting

Starting Price: $7.77 per month for the first off 3 months. $11.95 per month thereafter. No setup rate.

Differentiators:

• 1 free domain name
• Easiest to use for small business owners — Yahoo! understands making it relaxed for their small business customers. Most other hosting companies have documents and systems written and designed by geeks for other geeks.
• $100 credit for Yahoo! Search Marketing and $50 for Google AdWords

Satisfy Basic Requirements? Mostly. There is unlimited disk arrange, unlimited bandwidth, high email address limit, spam control, unlimited databases, and Web stats.

What’s Not Great: Only one domain/website. Not for resellers or “power users” like bloggers who may want to have multiple websites.

2. Site5

Starting Price: $3.95 per month, no setup fee

Differentiator: Cheapest to convene started

Satisfy Basic Requirements? Yes. There is plenty of disk space, bandwidth, unbounded domains, unlimited emails, spam control, unlimited databases, and Web stats.

3. Host Gator

Starting Price: $4.95 per month for entire domain. It’s $7.95 for the unlimited domain package. There’s plenty of disk space, bandwidth, and easy-to-install programs.

Differentiator: 4500 free templates

Especially Good For: Web hosting resellers, Web designers targeting brochureware projects, small business owners who want to build their own website.

Satisfy Basic Requirements? Yes. There is plenty of disk space, bandwidth, unlimited domains, unlimited emails, spam button, unlimited databases, and Web stats.

4. GoDaddy

Starting Price: $4.29 per month. Month-to-month payments. No setup fee.

Differentiators: $20 Google AdWords and $25 Microsoft adCenter coupons; optional Windows server; industry-leading domain name registrar

Satisfy Basic Requirements? Almost. Relatively small diskspace (10 Gb only), high bandwidth, squeaky email limit.

What’s Not Great: Limit of 10 databases

GoDaddy is cheap at reasonable over 4 bucks a month, but doesn’t have as many bells and whistles as other starter hosting packages. If you already use GoDaddy for your domain name registration (and many of us do), GoDaddy’s hosting aid is not a terrible choice for the price and convenience.

5. Blue Host

Their Only Price: $6.95 / month

Differentiators: 1 free domain prominence; free SSL (remarkable as regards ecommerce stores that will be processing payments); affiliate program for referring additional business.

Satisfy Basic Requirements? Yes. There is plenty of disk space, bandwidth, unlimited domains, high emails limit, spam control, high databases limit, and Web stats.

6. Apollo Hosting

Starting Price: $9.95 per month. Month-to-month payments. Up to 30% off for pre-payment.

Differentiators: Experience (in business since 1999); $25 Google AdWords coupon; optional Windows server

What’s Not Great: 20 domain limit. This is a dated practice when everyone else is offering unrestrained domains.

Satisfy Basic Requirements? Mostly. There is numbers of disk space, bandwidth, high emails limit, spam control, immeasurable databases, and Web stats.

7. Dreamhost

Starting Price: $9.95 per month if you pre-pay for a year. If you pay monthly, it’s $10.95/month plus a $49.95 setup fee.

Differentiators: Experience (in business since 1998)

What’s Not Great: setup fee; more expensive than others

Satisfy Basic Requirements? Mostly. There is plenty of disk space, high bandwidth limits, high emails limit, spam control, unlimited databases, and Web stats.

Dreamhost has been in business a extended time allowing for regarding a hosting company — in business since since 1998. It’s a decent option for a low volume starter site.