Which is the best web hosting provider?

Around the world now, there are millions of web hosting providers includes international providers and local ones. However, today, I would like to talk about famous companies because they are so professional and popular than the left.

According to statistic of Google, here are 5 companies which are found the most by users on search engine monthly: Godaddy (2,240,000/month), 1and1 (368,000/month), hostgator (201,000/month), bluehost (165,000/month) and ipage (165,000/month).

Now, let’s get started with me to figure out which the best web hosting provider is.

According to many nice posts about how to choose the best web hosting they said we needed to answer five questions as follows: (You can check this by typing how to choose the best web hosting on Google)

1.       Reliability/ uptime

2.       Customer service

3.       Pricing

4.       Company Stability

5.       Bandwidth/Space

Now, here is each question added on each provider:

1.   Reliability/ uptime

Go Daddy	1and1	Hostgator	Bluehost	iPage
99,9% up time	No say	99,9%	No say	No say

Those are some information about uptime on each provider’s official website. To know more and see objectively, let’s see all reviews from their customers about uptime.

GoDaddy:

We couldn’t find any uptime problems from customers in both good and bad reviews of Godaddy. Some people always have complements about their products. In all bad reviews, no one say about uptime. Here are some reviews about it:

From Gamias Gamiontas /Oct 8, 2014:

Excellent I have 10 sites on one hosting and works fine without any problem. I hope to continue like that for ever.

From Deepak patel/ Oct 9, 2014:

I am a user of Godaddy since 3 Years. In Between I use some another host also. But the features, Support and value I got there. I never got from any other host. One of my site was hosted woth another host and I always receive notification about "you site is using more resources so that we are taking down you site"

But I have hosted 5 Website with GODADDY but never get any issue. .

Excellent service.

1and1:

1&1 makes no claims or promises regarding uptime for web hosting customers, and neither is there an SLA or guarantee to reassure prospective clients. However, all data is stored simultaneously in two locations. Should one server fail, another will take over. This is a good provision, but the lack of uptime guarantee might put off some people.

From amir ali/ Sep 12, 2014

I have used many webhosting companies, 1&1 is one of my favourite website.Its support is very good always got my answers in no time.its uptime is also very good.In my view 1&1 rocks.

Some customers complain about 1and1 support but no one said about uptime.

Hostgator:

HostGator rent their data centre space from The Planet, using four of their facilities in Texas. Power back-ups, fire detection and constant monitoring from on-site staff keep their 12,000 servers safe and secure. They use 10 different fibre providers, including hardware from Time Warner and AT&T. They currently offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee (although they don’t publish any stats) and offer an RSS feed for service status updates.

Bluehost:

The company doesn’t make any headline claims about server uptime on their site: the most we could find was an offer of a toll-free refund policy should you leave as a result of a server outage. BlueHost do claim to monitor their servers round the clock, though, and their longevity in the hosting market - and dedication to controlling every minute detail of their hosting packages - does inspire confidence, despite the lack of any numbers.

iPage:

Websites created by iPage customers are hosted in two data centres in Boston, MA. Across the two facilities, they have 800 Dell servers. Each data centre offers round-the-clock security, N+1 AC and DC power and both have identical infrastructure. Customer data is mirrored across clustered servers to protect against downtime, and they also run UPS backup and have diesel generators too.

There are no details about uptime, and they don’t claim to have an uptime guarantee. Their servers are backed up daily using NetApp Snapshot.

Totally, all of these webs hosting provider always give out good uptime although some of them don’t show this on their website.

2.   Customer Support

Godaddy:

They have good support because many people feel so comfortable with their support team like these:

The help they gave me when I was first starting to build my wordpress blog was fantastic, I was pleasantly surprised to reach someone late at night who not only was easy to understand, but knew how to fix the problems. Thank You Godaddy. (larry brewer)

1and1:

Almost customers love to go with 1and1 but some people want to change:

1and1 was fine until I needed help. Then, the support was terrible. I mean so so bad it was like watching my life in a bad movie in slow motion. It took almost one month to get any kind of help, and even then I got helped only by going through Go Daddy. I made the switch permanently. DO NOT USE 1&1. Warned (Susan Gosnell)

Hostgator:

Like other providers, Hostgator also have bad and good reviews. Good reviews always say the best for them but there is a review commenting about their support team like this:

They cannot take care of new customers quickly and my guess there current customers either. The live chat sessions wait times are at least 30 minutes. While you are in the chat there is a long wait between responses of the representative.( John Secreti)

Bluehost:

I was so blow my mind with lots of good reviews for their support. It’s very good for a web hosting provider. Congratulation Bluehost:

My business knew no bounds since the day i got introduce to BlueHost, with 100% service uptime Bluehost stands out from the rest with great support and affordable services (Michael Richmond)

iPage:

Many people say support from iPage is the worst. Here are some examples:

Ipage is plagued with performance problems. I raised several tickets and their support sucks. Stay away... You've been warned (Ioannis Ioannou/Sep 17, 2014)

Worst support I have ever come across in my 16 years of development...customer service a close 2nd. iPage SUCKS.( Paul Flebotte/ Sep 18, 2014)

Totally, Godaddy and Bluehost are so good with customer support. We hope that if you love a friendly providers one of them is a good choice for you.

3.   Pricing

Go Daddy	1and1	Hostgator	Bluehost	iPage
$1/month	$0.99/month	$5.56	$3.95	$1.68

Look at the table you can see that Hostgator has got the highest price. And we think you get what you pay for. Choosing any one depends on your budget and other questions/ conditions in this article.

4.   Company Stability

All of these providers I said here have got a long life in the past and now they are developing and spreading continuously.

Here are years they were established:

Go Daddy	1and1	Hostgator	Bluehost	iPage
1997	1988	2002	1996	1998

Because of their reputation so don’t worry about moving another provider.

5.   Space/ Bandwidth

Go Daddy	1and1	Hostgator	Bluehost	iPage
100 GB/unlimited	Unlimited/unlimited	Unlimited/unlimited	100GB/unlimited	Unlimited/unlimited

These number is for Started plans of each providers, if you see not unlimited one, you find higher plan of that provider.

In conclusion, these providers are much better than other around the world. They have had a good reputation for a long time so if you want to have a good for you let’s try to take one suitable for your budget.

In this article, we didn’t recommend other companies because we choose the most popular one on Google. This way maybe not right exactly but it also reflects that these are companies to be cared by lots of people now. However, in our opinion, to build their brands like that, they must be got a real good service. Hope you enjoy this post.

Godaddy now as you know have 52 million customers and nice support so don’t hesitate if you choose them regardless of their price is also quite low, only $1.