In your opinion, what web hosting site do you think is the BEST and why?

Hi Dispirited Princess,

that's a one million dollar question! I have taught marketing and communications at the University of Arizona for the past 27 years and one thing I learned and teach my students: there is no service that can be considered "the best one" suitable for everyone's needs. It would be helpful if you gave us a bit of details as to the purpose of the site. Is it a niche site, site for an offline business, personal website? What kind of customers are you planning to attract? How are you going to market the product on your site? Is speed a major concern? etc.

With the info you gave us, I can just tell you about my experience. I use

http://goo.gl/CNi3z for over 40 personal business websites, with three of these earning a huge amount of cash and upgraded to dedicated servers. As far as customer service, uptime and speed go, you can't find any better in terms of shared hosting for the typical average small business website. They offer the best features at the lowest price in the market. One great feature they have is that they give you $100 google adwords credit which is great to start up a business and test out the waters without having to do much SEO.

The only drawback is that you will have to pay your hosting fees yearly. In other words they don't offer monthly plans. If you're on a very tight budget, http://goo.gl/lwivl may be a better option for you. The price is actually higher and the quality of the service not on a par with Bluehost but they do offer monthly plans that may be suitable for younger entrepreneurs and beginners! Again this is an affiliate link. If you click on it, you can use the code ARIZONASANDERS to get a great discount.

Whether you choose to go with these or other services, I also would like to recommend you to have a look at some of the websites hosted by whoever it is you are considering as your host. Check the host's forums for a list. My favorite free tool for checking out website speed is this: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/ To confirm who is hosting the site go to: http://www.whoishostingthis.com/ Consider also using a Cloud Service that will greatly enhance the browsing experience for your visitors! Cloud Flare is my favorite service: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans They offer a free basic test service. I recommend using the pro for $20 a month once you start making money.

It's always best to check out a host yourself rather than take anyone's word because hosting companies pay fees to their customers for recommending their services. That includes me and in no way is meant to imply anything or anyone who may have already answered or will answer this question in the future.

Lastly, before you choose a host make sure to have chosen the right domain! This is a crucial step towards ensuring success for your business, way more important than choosing the host. Your website has to rank as high as possible in google for people to be able to find it easily. You need specific tools to do this. The top level application, used ethically by many internet marketers is http://goo.gl/6Q4YS . You can use the application for free without buying anything.

I would rather not say which one I think is the worst - I would probably not add anything new to what has already been said as speed is a major concern for me - but again different people - different needs. What works for me might not work for you and what does not work for me may work for you!

Hope this helps and let us know how you are doing!

Okay so i have a real good answers for you on this one.

GoDaddy is by far the worst place to host your website. It is a good place to buy a domain but that is about all they are good for, in my opinion. Short Story: I had a site with them for about a week. It was slow, the backend would take 20 seconds to load more than half the time, and the experience from a web speed perspective was subpar.

The Best Place to host your website is probably siteground, the have fast servers and great customer service. They use cpanel for backend maintenance which is great and you can choose a variety of server configurations.

The best i can find is serverbuilds, they also host minecraft servers.

+ It's cheap

- It's in Dutch (Might be a problem for you)

I hope this helps you.

Hostgator

I use bluehost for web hosting and http://www.monitive.com/ for site uptime monitoring

Heartinternet

I like them because they are cheap, handle requests quick and you get a lot of tools to assist you when building a website.

Godaddy as one of the worst!

I've been personally using hostmetro for a while and they give us free discount coupons for friends. use rally25 for 25% off and a free domain name.

They have amazing local us support.