In order to conduct a survey and rate the performance of the web hosting companies currently ruling the roost in the related industry, we looked at the following determinants or deciding factors:

The good will and past records of the service providers is obviously a major fact.

Its usage popularity, that is, whether customers who use their services are happy with them or not and the exact number of customers/clients using their web hosting services.

Price rates and the quality of services have been counted to compile this web hosting service review.

This web hosting service review is also based on server up time and the kind of maintenance problems faced by their clients.

However we have not taken into account free services, for e.g., free hosting or free domain name schemes to boost sales.

While compiling this review we have also consulted other reviews like top-10-web-hosting.com, webhostinggeeks.com, web-hosting-top.com, top10webhosting.com.

The ten best web hosting companies from around the world are:

HostGator

Dot5Hosting

PowWeb

StartLogic

IX WebHosting

GoDaddy

Yahoo web hosting

LunarPages

BlueHost

HostMonster

These top ten web hosting companies reviewed by us are all extremely reliable and support email, webmail, Microsoft FrontPage extension, MYSQL 4, PHP 4 / 5, PYTHON, APACHE etc. Windows and Linux are the operating systems used by them.

Since the web hosting services sector has grown extremely competitive in the last few years due to the entrance of new players in the industry, web hosting rates have been slashed drastically to survive in the cut throat competition.

You can avail of web hosting at a rate as cheap as $5! This rate is inclusive of rebate, free first year, discount coupon, free months, and a diminished fee for first year etc. If you are ready to part with only $4-$10 every month, you can avail of good web hosting services. This is, as you will agree, a dirt cheap throw away price indeed.

In our web hosting services review the criteria of selection have been price, support quality, feature, performance, popularity, the kind of web hosting they offer, the types of domain name they offer like “ .com, .ws, .tv, .jp, .co, .uk, .co, .net, .org, .co.in, .co.uk, .com.au, .it, .com.sg ” etc.

The higher the ratings received by a web hosting company, the better are the features compared to the price ratio. The top ten web hosting services and companies that we have rated are capable of hosting any of the domain names listed above.

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