There are several thousand hosting companies out there, and most claim to offer cheap web hosting. However, the vast majority of these sites have a very skewed version of what “cheap” is. Most of the larger companies have decent prices, but the true cheap web hosting companies are the smaller corporations. Below you will find a list of some of the more popular hosts, and their monthly fees.
#1. GoDaddy
GoDaddy is most likely the #1 hosting company around as far as volume. GoDaddy has very good customer support, quick refunds, and quality servers. Unfortunately, they’re not exactly cheap. Their “cheap” web hosting packages start at about $60 per year – much higher than average.
#2. HostGator
HostGator is another large hosting company. Their plans start at about $5/month or $60 per year. However, they offer a number of extra features, such as a free site builder, a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and much more. Overall HostGator is an excellent company to host with.
#3. BlueHost
BlueHost boasts an impressive figure of more than 800,000 domains hosted. That doesn’t necessarily mean 800,000 clients, but it is still quite impressive. BlueHost has won a number of awards, and has been the favorite of many for several years. However, they aren’t so good on the cheap web hosting front. Their plans start at about $7/month or $84/year.
Other cheap web hosting companies are around, and if you are looking to save some money I suggest looking around this site. We have listed a whole bunch of websites that you can use to host your sites, all of which are very cheap. The above hosts are for people who aren’t really worried about money, and would rather just go with the most reliable hosting package. Either way is completely understandable, and the choice is up to you.
Written by Web Hosting Expert on Apr 22, 2009.
