Affordable Web Hosting

With the abundance of web hosting choices, it pays to compare the affordable web hosting options.

My experience and research has narrowed the playing field considerably down to the two hosts listed below. I won't deny, however that I have a special affinity for Thirdsphere Hosting since I've used them for several years, however, I have to say in all honesty, with the extremely affordable package Bluehost Hosting offers, I've taken a second look. They offer all the same features and is more affordably priced at $6.95/mo compared to Thirdsphere's $24.95/mo.

Whatever you do, don't fall into the trap of 'Free hosting'. You get what you pay for and if you don't want your site to go down periodically and have distracting, annoying banners and advertising on your site, avoid the free hosting at all costs. Here are two excellent and affordable web hosting options:

500 Megabytes of disk space

30 Gigabytes of monthly bandwidth

Your own cgi-bin to run scripts

Host multiple domain names (additional $10 per domain)

Create unlimited sub-domains

Unlimited e-mail accounts & aliases

Unlimited follow-up autoresponders

Unlimited MySQL databases

Instant account activation

Daily back-up system & 24/7 monitoring

Cost: $24.95/Mo

BlueHost Hosting

300 Gigabyte Hosting Space (NEW!)

Host UNLIMITED Domains

2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts

3,000 GIGS of Transfer (NEW!)

SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats

CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL

2000/2002/2003 Front Page Extensions

Free Domain Forever!

Free Site Builder (NEW)

24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support

Cost: $6.95/Mo

...In Summary

As you can see from the above, Thirdsphere Hosting has run into some pretty hefty competition with BlueHost.

Don't get me wrong, I love Thirdsphere and I still use them, however, having done some research into Bluehost, they offer the same, and in some areas, they offer MORE features! ...and it's hard to ignore that exceptional price! In addition, I haven't found any disappointed customers with Bluehost; the users I've talked to rave about the customer support.

That brings me to my next thought, should I switch from Thirdsphere to Bluehost? Believe me -- I've been tempted! ...but switching is a major project that I'm not willing to undertake at the moment. I have an excellent host in Thirdsphere and the extra cost a month is not an issue for me, however if that's not the case for you or you are starting out, I'd be getting on board with Bluehost.

Read my extended Review of Bluehost