This is the list of the best web hosting deals available online. We've gathered all most important information about Web hostong Companies so that you can compare all the top hosting companies. This list was created after comparing four main factors. Deals were collected from the biggest and most reliable web hosting providers.

Web hosting companies comparison was based on four factors: price, disc space, transfer and other features (reliability, service, etc.). All deals are offered, by well known hosting providers. We are pretty sure that you won't find better hosting company !!! Of course making right decision is more than just comparing the basic information about the offers given above. Why we've chosen to list the companies given above?
Those companies are well know on the market and they are known for their reliability. Other important thing that you'd probably would like to know about the web hosting for your site is the support, that they provide. This is very important, but it's also hard to measure. We don't list it, because we don't want to be unfair to anyone. Most of those web hosting companies are known for good support.

Choosing the domain hosting and the company that would sell the domain is one of the first steps. Buying the domain is pretty easy since it's not very expensive and most of the companies have very similar prices. Somtimes you don't even have to worry about that, because deals given above, very often include the free domain!

How to choose the right hosting

I write this article especially for people who are new to web hosting. This is why I will only talk about the basic needs (in a shared hosting environment): space, bandwidth. Most of the people looking for advanced features (scripting, databases) already know what they want/need anyway. So let's start with the space. Web space (disk space) is the amount of data you can store on the hard disk of the web server. Each web hostong accound comes with a certain amount of space, usually over 50 MB and less than 1000 MB. Also you have to remember about email hostong capacity.

Obviously, the amount of needed space depends on the size of the website. Most websites are composed of html (text) pages with a few images (gifs or jpegs) or even a little bit of Flash animation (image hostong ). Text is very economical; it occupies very little space. Images and flash are more expensive; they require a lot of space. If you're new to the web you might think it's great to have a lot of colorful images to make your website really beautiful. Don't make this common mistake!

Your aim should be to say as much as you can on a page while maintaining it's size under 50-60 KB including images. The reason? There are still lots of people using slow dial-up connections of under 56 Kbps. For them a 150 KB will take more that 21 seconds to load. A 60 KB page will take more than 8 seconds to load. That's still a lot of time! A good page size is under 30 KB. A maximum page size is 50-60 KB. Considering an average page size of 30 KB, you can put approximately 33 pages on 1Mb of space. If you have 10 MB of space available, you could host 330 pages. I only wish I had so many pages to put online. Don't worry, I'm working on it!

The idea is this: unless you run a busy forum your needs for space are likely to be rather modest. Just keep in mind to achieve an average of 30KB/page and you should be more than fine even with 10 MB of web space. Bandwidth is the amount of data that you're allowed to transfer per month. It includes all uploads and downloads regardless of the protocol used (HTTP, FTP, POP etc.). Bandwidth depends very much on the average page size, but it also depends on the number of visitors your website will have and the average number of pages they visit. For an average page size of 30 KB, 20,000 visitors per month and 3 pages per visitor your website will need about 1800 MB (1.8 GB) of bandwidth per month. Most cheap hosting packages include that amount of bandwidth. Not to mention that 20,000 visitors per month is only a dream for most websites. Most don't even have 2,000 visitors per month. I took you through all those numbers just to give you an idea how to estimate your needs. If you're just launching your website you will not need neither a huge amount of space, neither a huge amount of bandwidth. For 99% of people a hosting account with 10MB of space and 1Gb is more than enough.

Conclusion: Unless you have reasons to believe that your website will definitely have lots of visitors and unless you'll offer movies or music for download (legally of course ), I see little reason for you to worry about space and bandwidth. Just make your own calculations and also try to make sure that the host you choose allows account upgrades. That is to make sure you will be able to get more space and/or bandwidth if/when you need it without going through all the trouble of changing hosts.

By: Daniel Ionut Lemnaru owner of WHReviews.com

Try to consider virtual / reseller / dedicated hosting. It's important to consider if your website is dedicated fo ecommerce or just a personal webpage. Unix / Linux / windows hostong .

Do I need Dedicated IP when hosting your website ?

Many of us who is still beginner in web hostong industry didn't really know what is Dedicated IP/Static IP and does it really important to have dedicated IP for your site ?. And is there any difference between having dedicated IP and shared IP. In this article, I will try to explain and elaborate as much as possible so you can have better understanding and decide whether you really need them.

As the IP Address is getting harder and harder to get, most web hosting company doesn't offer dedicated IP to their hosting account. So basically when you host your site with them, you are sharing your IP Address with other web site and one IPaddress is normally shared by hundreds or even milion sites. Then, the question is , how does it work, how did it knows how to load my site and is there any performance issue when your site IPAddress is shared between other web site?

The answer is that all the web request is handled by Web Server,and the webserver will load the your site based on the host header or virtual host name that your site is configured.

For example if the web server has 5 website and all sharing one IP, then the Network Admin has to configure host header or virtual host that is unique to your site such as www.yourdomain.com to your site.

And there is no performance benefit on using dedicated IP over shared IP. It all depends on your hosting provider bandwidth.

So what is the reason why people want dedicated IP?. The main reason is if you planning to use SSL on your site, then you need dedicated IP.If not then either static IP or shared IP doesn't make any difference.

Andrew Smith SeekDotNet ASP.NET Web Hosting. http://www.seekdotnet.com

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