Service Reviews
Service Review: Complete List of Web Hosting Services
Before you start your own website, sooner or later you will consider where to host your website. There are so many web hosting services out there, each offering almost same kind of service, then how can you tell which one is the best? This post summarizes major web hosting services and rank them by Alexa traffic rank (from high to low).
Lowest Annual Plan column is showing the annualized lowest price marketed in each company’s website, they are accurate as of the modification date of this post, and are subject to change.
I personally feel that Alexa Rank plays a more important role than Lowest Annual Price in telling you about the service of a website, as it tells you in general how popular a website is, yet Lowest Annual Price is usually a marketing tool used by websites to attract sign ups. I would recommend using Alexa Rank combined with lowest annual plan to make buying decisions.
| Rank | Website | URL | Lowest Annual Plan | Alexa Rank |
| 1 | GoDaddy | www.godaddy.com | $59.88 | 194 |
| 2 | HostGator | www.hostgator.com | $95.4 | 579 |
| 3 | BlueHost | www.bluehost.com | $83.4 | 1064 |
| 4 | HostMonster | www.hostmonster.com | $83.4 | 1834 |
| 5 | 1&1 | www.1and1.com | 1863 | |
| 6 | Netfirms | www.netfirms.com | $59.4 | 2583 |
| 7 | justhost.com | www.justhost.com | 3613 | |
| 8 | iPower, Inc | www.ipower.com | $47.4 | 3842 |
| 9 | Register.com | www.register.com | $59.4 | 4524 |
| 10 | IX Web Hosting | www.ixwebhosting.com | $59.4 | 4937 |
| 11 | Lunarpages.com | www.lunarpages.com | 5396 | |
| 12 | FatCow | www.fatcow.com | $44.04 | 6472 |
| 13 | PowWeb | www.powweb.com | $46.56 | 6478 |
| 14 | Start Logic | www.startlogic.com | $71.4 | 7353 |
| 15 | Aplus.net | www.aplus.net | $71.4 | 7653 |
| 16 | FastHosts | www.fasthosts.co.uk | 8074 | |
| 17 | WebHostingPad | www.webhostingpad.com | 9841 | |
| 18 | inmotion hosting, Inc. | www.inmotionhosting.com | $36 | 12263 |
| 19 | Dot5 | www.dot5hosting.com | $47.4 | 20357 |
| 20 | EasyCGI | www.easycgi.com | $95.52 | 26201 |
| 21 | A2 Hosting | www.a2hosting.com | $57.24 | 26289 |
| 22 | WebHostingBuzz | www.jumpline.com | $59.4 | 30232 |
| 23 | HostRocket.com | www.hostrocket.com | 37850 | |
| 24 | FastDomain | www.webhostingbuzz.com | 38088 | |
| 25 | Server Pronto | www.serverpronto.com | 40478 | |
| 26 | Omnis Network | www.omnis.com | $71.4 | 41583 |
| 27 | Host Papa | www.hostpapa.com | $59.4 | 43319 |
| 28 | Ronet | secure.pronethosting.net | 47196 | |
| 29 | HostDime | www.hostdime.com | 47490 | |
| 30 | Gate.com | www.gate.com | $119.4 | 49618 |
| 31 | iPowerWeb | www.ipowerweb.com | $59.4 | 60397 |
| 32 | Super Green | www.supergreenhosting.com | $47.4 | 63546 |
| 33 | ImHosted | www.nethosting.com | 78193 | |
| 34 | iPage | www.ipage.com | 86351 | |
| 35 | JumpLine.com | www.imhosted.com | 87307 | |
| 36 | UltraHosting | www.ultrahosting.com | 97482 |
Important Disclaimer: Product price and availability are accurate as of the date of most recent update. Please send correction requests to info@linked8.com
Service Review: Online Shipping Label Printing Endicia.com
If you have a small business that needs to ship products on frequent basis, shipping service provider is an important part of running your business. If you have an online store (including eBay), you can use endicia.com or PayPal to print USPS shipping labels.
Comparing with PayPal.com, endicia.com doesn’t provide price advantage in shipping, however it does provide advantages in:
- more options in USPS shipping methods while PayPal only offers quite fewer choices;
- lower rates in shipping insurance while PayPal doesn’t offer it at all. While USPS offers shipping insurance, rates offered by endicia.com is much more cost effective than those offered by USPS.
On the down side, endicia.com is not free, they also display shipping rates on labels if you are not Premium Member.
Important Disclaimer: Product price and availability are accurate as of the date of most recent update. Please send correction requests to info@linked8.com
amabay: eBay vs. Amazon price comparison
Are you a fan of eBay or Amazon? or are you just a fan of finding deals? amabay is a cool tool that allows you to search Amazon and eBay at the same time, compare prices side by side, and find better deal for a certain product at any time between these two biggest online marketplaces. As its name indicates, amabay = ama(zon) + (e)bay, its search result combines those of Amazon and eBay for a certain keyword in the same screen.
No matter how good an idea you have about what you are going to buy, amabay is powerful in helping you to find better price. Amabay is both a price research tool and a product research tool. Using this tool, you can research any product and find interesting differences between Amazon and eBay:
Generally, Amazon is more specialized in branded products, due to this reason, Amazon is more often to be chosen to be the official retail channel for well-known brands, such as Microsoft Zune HD video mp3 player. In addition, Amazon also offers free shipping on any $25 or greater orders and pays return shipping on items shipped by Amazon.com itself.
eBay is more specialized in non-branded, commodity like products, such as car mp3 player FM transmittter, more often than not you can find better deals on eBay than on Amazon for these products.
However, these guidelines are not true in many cases, eBay can offer unbeatable price on branded products for example, Brother QL-570 label printer, while Amazon could offer great deals on non-brand products such as car charger socket power splitter. Therefore, you want to use amabay to research any individual product before you conclude which retailer offer the best price.
Important Disclaimer: Product price and availability are accurate as of the date of most recent update. Please send correction requests to info@linked8.com
Service Review: Legal Form Services
This post compares and reviews companies that offer legal form services online.
U.S. Legal Forms, Inc. is the leading publisher of State Specific legal forms over the Internet. Whether you are an attorney, small business or consumer, USLF provides you fast results, at a reasonable price, in an easy and accurate manner, to satisfy your immediate State Specific form needs.
Since 2001, FindLegalForms.com has helped over 800,000 customers by providing high-quality and easy-to-use legal forms. We offer more than 14,000 attorney-prepared legal forms to satisfy virtually any legal need.
Important Disclaimer: Product price and availability are accurate as of the date of most recent update. Please send correction requests to info@linked8.com
Review of Online Stock / Option Brokers
This post reviews major online stock / option brokers for retail investors.
TradeKing is a nationally licensed online broker offering low flat fees ($4.95 per trade plus $.65 per option contract) with no hidden costs or account minimums. Mutual fund trading cost $14.95 per trade, while TDAmeritrade cost $49.99 per trade, and E*Trade cost $19.99 per trade. TradeKing offers great education to investors who heavily trade on options, it offers pre-programmed option strategies in its tading platform to facilitate option trading which is common used in hedging risk. Regarding accessing research information, TradeKing offers access to research from MarketGrader.com, “a quantitative system that analyzes publicly-traded companies based on a strict fundamental analysis”
E*TRADE FINANCIAL offers $12.99 stock trades ($9.99 if your have more than $50,000 in your portfolio or makes 30+ trades per quarter). Available research includes: Credit Suisse, Thomson Reuters, S&P Stock Reports, BNY Jaywalk, Morningstar, Dow Jones and Market Edge, a complete list can be found here.
E*TRADE retirement accounts include: No-Fee Roth IRA, No-Fee Traditional IRA, and Rollover IRA accounts. Opening an account is quick and easy, and takes a matter of minutes.
Important Disclaimer: Product price and availability are accurate as of the date of most recent update. Please send correction requests to info@linked8.com