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Recommended service providers:
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Cheap Hosting Solutions
Hosting package:
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Bluehost
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Hostgator
Hatchling Plan
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Hostgator
Baby Plan |
Hostgator
Swamp Plan
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Disk
space
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300
000 MB
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350
000 MB
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600 000 MB
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1 000 000 MB
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Data
transfer / mo
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3000 Gigabyte
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3000 Gigabyte
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6000 Gigabyte
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unlimited
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Email
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2500
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20
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unlimited
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unlimited
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Programming
languages
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PHP, Perl, Ruby
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PHP, Perl, Ruby
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PHP, Perl, Ruby
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PHP, Perl, Ruby |
Databasis
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50 MySQL,
50 PostGre
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unlimiited
MySQL,
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unlimited MySQL
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unlimited MySQL |
FREE DOMAIN
(new or
transferred)
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FREE new
domains,
FREE domain transfers
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FREE domain
transfers
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FREE domain
transfers |
FREE domain
transfers |
Fantastico
scripts*
(free
portal-, blog-, online store-, CMS-, shopping cart-,
forum-, guestbook softwares and a lot of other free scripts
preinstalled)
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YES
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YES
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YES
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YES
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Addon domains
(multiple domain hosting)
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Host unlimited
domains on 1 account!
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No
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Unlimited
addon domains
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Unlimited
addon domains |
Subdomains
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unlimited
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20
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unlimited
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unlimited |
E-commerce
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Agora Shopping
Cart, osCommerce, SSL, Zen Cart, Cube Cart
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Agora Shopping
Cart, Zen Cart, Cube Cart, SSL, osCommerce |
Agora Shopping
Cart, Zen Cart, Cube Cart, SSL, osCommerce |
Agora Shopping
Cart, Zen Cart, Cube Cart, SSL, osCommerce |
Setup fee
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NO
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NO
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NO
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NO
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Free
advertising credits for Google Adwords:
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50 USD credit
for starting an Adwords campaign
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NO
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NO
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NO
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Free
advertising credits for Yahoo Search Marketing:
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50 USD credit
for starting a Yahoo Search Marketing ad campaign
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NO
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NO
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NO
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Other
important features
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Search Engine
Submission, Search Engine Position Report, scripts, stats, Site
builder...
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Site Builder,
statistics, free scripts and more
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Site Builder,
statistics, free scritpst and more |
Site Builder,
statistics, free scritpst and more |
| Price /
month |
6,95 / USD |
4,95 USD |
7.95 USD |
12.95 USD |
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Bluehost
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Hostgator
Hatchling Plan >> |
Hostgator
Baby Plan >> |
Hostgator
Swamp Plan >>
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How to Choose a Cheap Hosting Provider
Before you choose a hosting company you should make a list of what you
need and what you don't for your internet business or website to run.
Will you build an information site or an online store? Do you need
special scirpts, form mails, your own blog and forums or just a space
where you can upload your files?
1. What is
Fantastico?
Fantastico is the leading autoinstaller for cPanel servers which allows
you to auto-install a number of scripts without any programming skills.
Installation procedure takes seconds and can be performed by novices
without the need for setting up MySQL databases, downloading files,
changing file permissions or other tasks usually associated with
advanced installations.
Pre-installed scripts included in Fantastico:
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Blogs: b2evolution; Nucleus; pMachine Free; WordPress
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Portals/CMS: Drupal; Geeklog; Joomla!; Mambo Open Source;
PHP-Nuke; phpWCMS; phpWebSite;
Post-Nuke; Siteframe; Typo3; Xoops
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Customer Support: Crafty Syntax Live Help; Help Center Live;
osTicket; PerlDesk; PHP Support
Tickets; Support Logic Helpdesk; Support Services Manager
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Discussion Boards: phpBB2; SMF
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E-Commerce: CubeCart; OS Commerce; Zen Cart
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FAQ: FAQMasterFlex
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Guestbooks: ViPER Guestbook
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Hosting Billing: AccountLab Plus; phpCOIN
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Image Galleries: 4images Gallery; Coppermine Photo Gallery;
Gallery
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Mailing List: PHPlist
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Polls and Surveys: Advanced Poll; phpESP; PHPSurveyor
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Project Management: PHProjekt; dotProject
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Site Builders: Templates Express
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Wiki: PhpWiki; TikiWiki
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Other Scripts: Dew-NewPHPLinks; Moodle; Noah�s Classifieds;
Open-Realty; phpAdsNew;
PHPauction; phpFormGenerator; phpLinks; WebCalendar
2. Promotional
tools:
Many hosting companies realized the importance of website promotion and
offer free tools like search engine submissions, search keyword
analyzer, search engine
position report. Other useful and money saving features are to
offer credits for contextual advertising campaigns like Google AdWords
and Yahoo Publishing Network. It is a huge help for small business, for
example, if your host gives you free
advertising opportunity worth $100 that you can use on starting
a Google or Yahoo ad campaign.
3. Ecommerce
tools:
If you intend to sell your products or services through an online store
or you want to accept credit card payments on your website you should
look for ecommerce features in a hosting package. Common ecommerce
tools are: Shopping carts, SSL, Free generated certificates, password
protected directories, osCommerce, Cube cart, Zen cart, Agora shopping
cart.
4. Multiple
Domain hosting (addon domains):
Internet marketers who earn serious amounts of money from their
websites know that to profit from the internet the most, it is adwised
to run several websites, so called niche sites. If you run 5 or 6
different sites with different domains and hosting, it could cost you
some money. But multiple domain hosting allows you to have one hosting
account where you can host more sites associated with different
domains. This feature is called addon domains. If you want to save money
why not paying for only one hosting service and adding your domains to
this one hosting account?
5. Free email
accounts:
Questions to answer: How many email accounts will you need? Can you use
webmail or do you have to download your mails to your local computer?
Do you need autoresponders? Autoresponders are pre-written messages.
You can often encounter them when subscibing to a newsletter. After you
subscibe you receive an email about the confirmation of your
subscription. Of course it's not sent from the webmaster of the site
personally because a person can't sit in front of the computer 24/7.
Autoresponders are very effective tools in building trust in your
visitors. These autoresponders give them the feeling of being important
and being cared about.
6. Disk space
and bandwith (data transfer):
You should consider how much disk space you will need. Will you store
large multimedia files on your website or will there be mailny articles
on your pages. Bandwith is in connection with traffic. Every time
someone
visits your website and downloads files "uses" a part of the monthly
bandwith. If you have large files and many visitors they can eat up the
bandwith very easily. It's especially a big problem with free hostings.
For example Geocities use to offer 10 MB free disk space and very
little bandwidth. So often visitors were unable to view certain sites,
all they could see was a messages of "bandwidth limit exceeded".
7. Free
domains:
Free domains are mostly offered by hosting providers where the monthly
hosting fee is relatively high and if you take a look at the annual
expenditures it might be more expensive to choose them than signing up
for a cheap hosting package and buying a domain name separately.
Fortunately there are a few hosting providers where you get both cheap
hosting and a free domain.
Summary:
The key to saving money on hosting is to add up all the features that
you demand from a hosting service and see how much it costs combined.
Simply put: examine what you get for your money. Are the offered
services acceptable for that price? Does value match the payable fee?
If yes then you have found the right hosting provider.
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We wish you good luck and success in achieving your goals and making
your dreams come true.
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