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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