Web Hosting Ranking List (Best Providers)

1
IX Web Hosting - www.ixwebhosting.com
Rated “Best Web Host of 2006” by The Hosting Chart staff for “Great Value and Feature-Rich Services”

2
Host Excellence - www.hostexcellence.com
Rated “Up and Coming WebHost of 2006” by The Hosting Chart Staff

3
Dot5 Hosting - www.dot5hosting.com
“…a very viable solution for anyone looking for multiple domain hosting. Great solutions, good pricing, dependable support!”

4
Start Logic - www.startlogic.com
"StartLogic is a robust web hosting company that definitely has its act together"

5
BlueHost - www.bluehost.com
Rated “One of the Top 5 Web Hosts of 2006” by The Hosting Chart Staff

6
AN Hosting - www.anhosting.com
“There isn’t much to say except it works great!”

7
Lunarpages - www.lunarpages.com
“above average web hosting performance and reliability that other providers normally charge a premium for”

8
1&1 - www.1and1.com
“As far as hosting goes, 1&1 probably has a solution right for you.”

9
iPowerWeb - www.ipowerweb.com
“A good value for the money”

10
Host Monster - www.hostmonster.com
“… an excellent choice for a startup site where budgetary concerns are high.”

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Web hosting services - or where should I upload my site

Web hosting service

A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to provide their own websites accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Webhosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called colocation.

Types of hosting:
Hosting services limited to the Web:
Free web hosting service: is free, (sometimes) advertisement-supported web hosting, and is extremely limited when compared to paid hosting.
Shared web hosting service: one's Web site is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU.
Reseller web hosting: allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Resellers could function, for individual domains, under any combination of these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as a provider.
Virtual Dedicated Server: slicing up a server into virtual servers. each user feels like they're on their own dedicated server, but they're actually sharing a server with many other users.
Dedicated hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server and gains full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server.
Colocation web hosting service: similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the server; the hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. This is the most powerful and expensive type of the web hosting service. In most cases, the colocation provider may provide little to no support directly for their client's machine, providing only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server.
Clustered hosting: having multiple servers hosting the same content for better resource utilization.

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