Today I would provide you with some information related to the choosing of web hosting for your internet resources.

One of my wishes was to have unlimited domains to be managed through the hosting plan.

Still seems to be almost for all the web hosting proposals it is done through domain addons when you just put content of your another side into the separated folder at the main account. Still I decided to try how it is works.

My first idea was to you http://www.webhostingbuzz.com as I saw a link for them from the smashing magazine (smashingmagazine.com), as well as this link proposed anothe price, lower then their standard proposal. The link is as follows (to avoid you to search it at the smashing magazine resource) http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/website-hosting.shtml?host_smashingmagazine-special#.

Still then I decided to read some reviews on the different hostings. And I found lots of negative reviews on them here http://www.vistainter.com/reviews/W/webhostingbuzz.com/. So I decided to search for another web hosting company, as at their native page there were only positive reviews http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/web.shtml?whb_testimonials with very good rates what is very surprising.

What is next: I just found using google the following ratings for the hosting companies:
http://web-hosting-review.toptenreviews.com/
http://www.upperhost.com/
http://www.besthostratings.com/
http://webhostinggeeks.com/
http://www.webhostingjury.com/
http://www.webhostingjudge.com/ju.html

And I have choosen http://www.bluehost.com/. This company was in all the ratings at the top5 positions, and had lots of positive comments. Also I understand that these hosting company could play not very correctly leaving some wrong comments with too optimistic information, still I decided to try.

What I could say for now:
+ normal price. I have choosen to pay for 12 month, and got a price 7.95 instead of 9.95 per month
+ they have cpanel adjusted. E.g. when I added one domain addon - special adjusted wizzard appeared, and it even contains the check on the validity of domain I have choosen to add to the existed account. There were 4 ways to prove I am owner of this domain - JInsights.com. And I like this adjustment.
+ they have 50$ for goodle and yahoo ads programs for free
+ cpanel contains lots of additional scripts like fantastico script allowing to install wordpress and all other stuff by one click.

- it is impossible to pay just for month as it is done at the http://a2hosting.com company - another web hosting company where I have sites hosted. And this is really pitty. They have option to pay for three months, still this option includes 30$ of setup. But for what. All is done automatically. And it is worth of saying - what is fucking setup for 30 dollars, guys? for some seconds of CPU working?

Also I would take a look at the following hosting company - they have very good (unusually) comments and rates
http://www.webhostingjury.com/reviews/Blurstorm

I would spend time and in next posts would talk on the tools/resources allowing you to check the quality of the hosting.

Best regards, dealing with hosting stuff,
Zmicer Harachka

p.s. I found some articles which may be usefull for you. Please have them here:
Purchasing web hosting for your business based on price
The value of a domain name
Web Site Monitoring Service
Creating your own business plan

update: just decided to mention these sites - hosters. I have an account and site at the a2hosting and one of my friends has account at eskhosting. So if you are interested in overview of their quality - just let me know.
http://www.a2hosting.com
http://eskhosting.com
http://www.imhosted.com/

Take care!

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