Web Hosting Companies and Services

In choosing a web hosting company, you generally get what you pay for. The cheaper companies (although they are not necessarily of lesser quality) will not give you all the bells and whistles that you may need, like telephone tech. support 24/7.

Fast Host and My Power Host are both feature rich and much cheaper than the more famous larger companies, but you pay a price for the cheap service. Unless you know how to use the features and services they provide, they are no bargain. ( Note I personally use My Power Host for one of my websites). Fast Host can get you started for as little as $2.95 per month. Below you will find the basic information on their hosting plans. When you go to this link http://www.fasthost.com/hosting.php you will be able to see all the services they provide.

General Features	Fast1	Fast2	Fast3	Fast4	Fast5
Data Transfer	10 GB/Mo	95 GB/Mo	125 GB/Mo	155 GB/Mo	195 GB/Mo
Disk Space	500 MB	7000 MB	9000 MB	11000 MB	15000 MB
Addon Domains	None	5	10	15	20
Price ($/Mo)	$2.95 Order Now	$6.95 Order Now	$9.95 Order Now	$14.95 Order Now	$24.95 Order Now

You will notice that their is no telephone tech support, and see what happens if you try to become an affiliate.

My Power Host provides the following shared hosting plans as of this writing:

Stop jumping around from host to host. We provide you with all the tools needed to securely and reliably host all of your websites. Our support team is here for you 24 hours a day - 7 days a week. This is exactly why we guarantee 100% Satisfaction!

Package Highlights	Personal Power	Corporate Power	Extreme Power
Disk Space	unlimited	unlimited	unlimited
Bandwidth Monthly	unmetered	unmetered	unmetered
Per Month	$6.50 mo.	$18.95 mo.	$24.95 mo.
Per Month (Paid Semi-annually)	$4.50 mo.	$14.95 mo.	$22.95 mo.
Per Month (Paid Annually)	$2.50 mo.	$12.95 mo.	$19.95 mo.
Reseller Account		Unlimited cPanel Accounts	Unlimited cPanel Accounts
Sell Reseller Accounts			40 Sub-Reseller Accounts

The link for more information is : http://www.mypowerhost.com/hosting/plan-features .

You will also notice that they are feature rich and very economical, but if you need telephone tech support, forget it. But I can tell you from personal experience that their tech support staff will respond to your e-mails fairly quick and they are highly knowledgeable. But neither of these companies is easy to use for a newbie.

In the next post, we will look at some other companies which are better for newbies and are also very good for experienced web developers.