What Makes A PHP Web Hosting Companies Perfect

Most of us know PHP has revolutionized web designing and dynamic web programming since its public release in 1995. Main reason behind this is its stability, fast performance and FREE availability. With its ready to use source code, powerful core libraries, it has become one of the most popular scripting languages over the years.

We'll try to find out here some of the best companies supporting PHP web hosting.

Following are few points which must be looked into before going for any of the best web hosting company.


Reliability of the company

Disk Space offered

99.9% Uptime

Customer support

Data transfer / Bandwidth

Scripting support - CGI, PHP, ASP

Control Panel

FTP access

Multiple Domain and sub domain support

From our research and analysis, we've found out few companies offering the best web hosting in the market.

We've taken example of three companies among the web hosting providers 1.BlueHost, 2.GoDaddy and 3.HostMonster.

BlueHost offers $6.95/month (2 year) package which includes 300GB web space, host unlimited domains, 2500 e-mail accounts, e-mail forwarding and autoresponders, unlimited subdomains, 50 MYSQL databases, 50 postgre sql databases, CGI Support, Site statistics, Support for PHP and Flash, Additionally Blog, guestbook and mailing list and CMS (Mambo and Joomla) support, Streaming video and audio support, OS Commerce and SSL secure server support, FREE search engine submission.

GoDaddy offers $5.59/month (2 year) package (Deluxe plan) which includes 100GB web space, 1000 GB transfer, 1000 e-mail accounts, unlimited domains, 25 MySQL databases, unlimited e-mail forwards, support for forum, blog and photo galleries. Additionally offers $25 google adwords credit, $50 Microsoft adCenter credit.

HostMonster offers $4.95/month (2 year) package which includes 300GB web space, 3000GB transfer, unlimited domains and subdomains, unlimited e-mail accounts, forwarding and autoresponder support, CGI /PHP Support, 100 MySQL Databases, 100 PostGreSQL databases, Web statistics, Audio and video streaming support, Flash support, Real Audio and video Support, $50 yahoo credit, $50 google credit and search engine submission for your website.

If we carefully compare the packages offered by these companies, we can see that HostMonster offers the best package with $4.95/month for 2 years. You can follow the same guideline for choosing other best web hosting packages available out there.


By Ben Huang

Why Free Web Hosting May Not Be A Bad Thing

There is paid web hosting and there is free web hosting. Most people tend to steer clear of free web hosting as they tend to believe that “there is no free lunch”. Free web hosting must have its catches?

Well, that really depends on your purposes and your position.

Why purpose?

If your web hosting is for your website which is for commercial purposes, such as an ecommerce web-store, you need absolute reliability and uptime. Every second of downtime is lost revenue. While some free web hosting providers guarantee uptime, you cannot hold it against them if their services do not meet expectations and cause your business to lose hundreds of dollars of revenue. Why? Because most free web hosts will have a clause in their terms that state that they do not guarantee uptime at all because they are a free service. Now, most free hosts will not even guarantee any uptime and those free web hosting services are provided on a best effort basis. You cannot risk hosting your crucial business website on such a free hosting plan.

However, for most individuals who are experimenting with building websites, free web hosting is the ideal choice as there is no monetary commitment and no lost for both parties. Everyone deserves a chance to learn and what better way to learn than to do it? Free web hosting plans from free hosts are the ideal platform for aspiring webmasters to start their web-building careers. Of course these free hosts may require something in return: visiting sponsors, displaying ads on hosted pages, reading emails, and lately, participating in online communities of the free web-host. This last option may not be a bad thing as online communities allow the users to interact and learn from each other.

There is also a last category of users who just want free web hosting for a personal site which they do not find the need to be up all the time and do not see the need to pay for it and do not see the need to do anything for it. There are some free web hosts out there who offer free hosting for nothing – just a simple sign up. Therefore, a clear purpose for using free web hosting is important. If the purpose is critical and there is no tolerance for problems, then free webhosting is not suitable. Other than that, free web hosting is not a bad thing.

Why position?

Web hosting plans are relatively affordable these days (some plans as low as $1 a month) that almost any working person can afford it for their websites. Therefore, paying for web hosting should not be a problem for those who have an income, or some savings to spend on developing their websites further. Also, any working adult should be able to afford using a Paypal account that most web hosts will accept as a form of payment. On the other hand, students and young people do not have much to spend, much less a Paypal or Credit Card with which to pay for hosting. For this group of people, free web hosting plans are the obvious alternatives if they wish to set up websites without paying anything for them.

To conclude, free web hosting may not be a bad thing for selected groups of people who have a specific purpose. For students and people looking to learn about developing websites, free web hosting is a good thing.


by: Dax Christopher

Web Hosting Reviews - Can You Trust Them?

The market is filled with web hosting services providers of all shapes and sizes. In this jungle of hosting companies, how do you make a good choice? Should you trust the sites offering web hosting reviews?

Imagine doing a search on Google for "web hosting company", and coming up with around 1,700,000 hits! How can you possibly find the best web hosting plan for your needs among all those? You may look at the prices, thinking: "I will get a good deal by looking for the cheapest web hosting plan".

Well, not a good idea IMHO. Because of the fierce competition between providers of web hosting services, they often try to cut costs by cutting down on support, and also by vastly overselling hardware and bandwidth resources. The result: poor support and poor reliability. Simply put: your website goes down, and nobody listens to you when you try to tell your hosting company about it.

What you want and need is not a cheap web hosting plan, but a good web hosting plan that fits your budget. Having realized this, you start looking around for advice on good web hosting. Now, chances are you will then stumble upon some web hosting review site, which is happy to tell you that xyz.com is the very best web hosting provider in the world! Fine, you think, now my problem is solved thanks to that piece of valuable information.

Wrong again - most likely. The truth is, that many web hosting companies pay very generous commissions to those who refer new customers to them. It then becomes very tempting to set up a "web hosting reviews" website which is actually nothing but a billboard for the best-paying web hosting services providers, with no regard for their actual merits. And so it goes. I have personally looked over about a hundred of those web hosting reviews' sites, and in most cases they are just that - billboards. Often, they strongly recommend web hosting companies that are actually known to have a very poor customer reputation. Thus, they are really spreading misinformation and confusion instead of offering good advice.

The only reliable way of telling if a web hosting company is worth doing business with, is to see what their customers are saying about it. Such customer posts can be found here and there on various web sites, but you have to know where to look. A few of those web hosting reviews' sites does actually collect and post such customer opinions; and you can also find authentic posts by searching on large web hosting forums such as WebHostingTalk.

Needless to say, you should NOT bother with the "customer opinions" posted by the web hosting companies themselves on their own sites. Often, those "reviews" are fabricated, or simply copied from somewhere else.


by: Kai Virihaur