Cheap and Reliable Web hosting solution Review

Dec 3, 2008

Find out which web hosting company offers the cheapest and reliable web hosting solution

Categories: Featured, Web Hosting

I have been looking for a good web hosting company who offers cheap but reliable web hosting solution for quite a while. The keywords here are cheap and reliable and for some reason these two words do not want to go together very well . If you are willing to pay big money then you have nothing to worry about… your options are endless. My focus is finding that sweet spot where reliability meets cheapness. I continuously update this page with my findings on cheap web hosting solutions. Hopefully this information will be of some help to someone looking to find a good web hosting company.

I am very strict when it comes to the reliability of the web hosting company. Server Uptime is very important for anyone who has a website doing whatever business that you are doing. If your site is down when a visitor or customer goes to your site then you are losing traffic and business. In addition to losing temporary customers, if your site goes down frequently then there is a good chance that your customers will get annoyed and will try to avoid coming to your site in the future.

Most web hosting companies guarantee 99.9% Server Uptime but in reality a lot of them do not deliver 99.9% server uptime that they guarantee. Most of the time you won’t even know that your site was down and you lost customers. None of your visitors complained doesn’t really mean that your site was up 100% that month.

I am particularly interested in a reseller account. A reseller account that allows you to create multiple cPanel based websites. The ability to create multiple cPanel based website is really useful as each website has individual cPanel control panel for administration purpose. Not many of the cheap web hosting companies offer reseller account with the ability to create multiple cPanel based websites.

I was with Surpass Hosting and even though they have a 99.9% uptime guarantee, recently my site has been going down frequently. When you complain to them they reply to you with the result of the UNIX ‘uptime’ command which shows the length of time the system has been up, saying our servers were up all month! The system was up all month doesn’t necessarily mean that your site wasn’t down (The CPU load could have been at 100% so it wasn’t processing any other requests and hence your site was not accessible).

I have decided to change my web hosting provider and after doing some research I found that Web Hosting Buzz offers the cheapest reseller hosting solutions and looks reliable (from their server uptime data). So I have decided to give web hosting buzz a try.

WebHostingBuz Review

WebHostingBuz offers Reseller accounts from $5 per month with some great features. They have 99.9% server uptime gurantee. You can check their server uptime history from WebHostingBuz Server Uptime figures. WebHostingBuz website has Google page rank of 7/10 (Page Rank reflects Google’s view of the importance of the web page). I tend to use the website’s page ranking as a trust factor. A website with high Google page rank is less likely to be a fraud.

Below are some information on WebHostingBuz. These are probably no different than any other web hosting companies out there…

Some General WebHostingBuz Details

Hosting over 300,000 websites.
cPanel based hosting platform for highest conversions.
In house staff of over 100 people.
Free domain name with every hosting package.
Free website builder software with tons of free templates.
Advanced billing management system for resellers.
Sophisticated spam control system installed across the network.
Servers spread across three data centers in the United States.
24×7 live sales and technical support.

Some Technical WebHostingBuz hosting Details

Host accounts on very powerful RAID protected Dual Quad Core Xeon web servers.
cPanel control panel & Web host manager.
Usual cPanel features like PHP, MySQL, CGI, pop3/Imap email accounts, etc.
Ruby on Rails and Shell Access (SSH) support.
Overselling enabled.
Fantastico scripts auto-installer support.
RvSite Builder to design your site easily.
Anonymous Nameservers to setup websites.

Below is a list of web hosting companies that provide affordable cheap web hosting solutions. I have listed the current Google page rank of those sites too. I would recommend avoiding the ones with low Google page rank.

JustHost with 20% Commision(Google Page rank of 5/10)
http://www.hostgator.com (Google Page rank of 8/10)
http://www.surpasshosting.com (Google Page rank of 7/10)
http://www.lonex.com (Google Page rank of 6/10)
http://www.powerhoster.com (Page rank of 4/10)
http://www.arivoo.com (Google Page rank of 2/10)
http://www.intelweb.biz (Google Page rank of 1/10)
http://easysitebuild.com (Google Page rank of 1/10)
http://www.hostdeal.com (Google Page rank of 1/10)
http://www.xtra-hosting.net (Google Page rank of 0/10)

Web hosting buzz offers pretty cheap reseller account but is it reliable? It looks reliable from the Server uptime data but I will have to see how I go with them to be sure. I will keep you posted.

Which web hosting solution are you using? Are you happy with your hosting service provider? Feel free to leave your comments or suggestions in the comments area below.