Top 10 list of Web Hosting Sites

First, let’s discuss what web hosting is. Web hosting is a service which assigns space for customers to showcase their websites on computer servers that are connected to the Internet 24/7.Servers are powerful computers that have extremely huge hard drives, or an array of hard drives. Space is then rented to those who want an “online presence”.

Every server on the Internet has a unique numerical IP (Internet Protocol) address. You can think of servers as apartment buildings with unique addresses. Each apartment unit within each building is vague to space rented out for individual websites. And like real apartment buildings, each unit also has an address based on “the building” in which it is located. When you rent a space on a server, you’re setting up house on the Internet. You can be reached by a unique address (the website address), which is based on the server’s address.

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Disk Space – The amount of hard drive space on the host server, this space is used to store all codes, files, databases, images, and videos for your site. You generally want to future-proof your site by getting a plan with larger amounts of disk space than you need.

Bandwidth – The amount of data that can be sent to or from the host’s server measured in bytes. This term is often used interchangeably with data transfer. Data, whether it is text, image, audio, or video, is requested by visitors of your site and then transferred from the server your site is on. Many hosts have a limit in place for bandwidth, which is called ‘monthly data transfer’.

RAM – Random Access Memory, commonly known as RAM, is the amount of memory on the server that your site can use. If your site or service is very resource intensive, say a video site, you are going to want a large amount of RAM. A smaller site, say a personal blog, can get by on smaller amounts of RAM.

Here are the top ten lists of web hosting sites:

The following web hosting sites are ranked according to price, popularity, reliability, control panel, features, overall usability, and tech support.

1. www.hostmonster.com
2. www.starlogic.com
3. www.webhostingpad.com
4. www.hostgator.com
5. www.inmotionhosting.com
6. www.bluehost.com
7. www.ixwebhosting.com
8. www.1and1.com
9. www.godaddy.com
10. www.smallbusiness.yahoo.com