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What is Hostings.info?
Basically, this is a hosting review portal. We provide detailed overviews on various hosting providers, tutorias, tools, different articles and webmaster beginner’s guides. Nowadays, each and every company struggles to attract as many customers as possible and thus, includes lots of different features to their hosting plans. Meaning that you can get high quality hosting services at an affordable price. Our website allows our visitors to leave their feedback on hosting providers so that webmasters can decide for themselves whether this particular hosting provider meets their needs.
How are we different from other projects?
1. This project was created by a team of experienced specialists. Among other things, we run various tests to get the data on the ping time, server load, uptime and other results. Also, we do not delete any reviews, neither good or bad, because all of the opinions matter. Of course, one of our main policies is to block bots and anonymous users. Each user profile is checked to see whether this is a real person, and only then allowed to publish reviews.
2. Each month our team conducts a hosting market analysis and updates the ratings. That’s why our ratings are always accurate and up-to-date.
3. We offer reviews on hosting providers from a wide range of countries (USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Europe, India). Additionally, we provide a rating of companies offering free hosting services.
4. On our portal you can find a hosting package with any desired characteristic suitable for any website type (the full list is located here).
5. Here you can always find expert advice on choosing a hosting provider as well as detailed information regarding ongoing promos and discounts. Study our FAQs to better understand website hosting.
FAQ
Hosting refers to the practice of storing and serving website or application files on a server that is accessible via the internet. It allows your website or application to be accessible to users online.
If you want to have a website or application that can be accessed by others on the internet, you will need hosting. The hosting provider stores your website or application files on their server and ensures that they are accessible to anyone who wants to access them online. Without hosting, your website or application would not be accessible to anyone on the internet.
Simple hosting typically refers to a basic web hosting service that provides the fundamental features necessary for hosting a website or web application, such as storage space, bandwidth, and support for basic programming languages like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Simple hosting plans are usually designed for individuals or small businesses with relatively straightforward web hosting needs and may offer limited or no additional features, such as email hosting or advanced security measures.
A server is a physical or virtual machine that provides services and resources to other computers or devices on a network while hosting refers to the act of providing storage space, processing power, and other resources to host a website, application, or other online content on a server. In other words, hosting is the act of using a server to make content or services available online.
We highly recommend not to purchase the cheapest hosting package. Usually, they come with a row of issues: the server is often down, the hardware is outdated, lousy and slow support, registration and payment errors, etc.
For your convenience, we have created a tool that can help you to choose the right hosting package for you just by answering a few simple questions.
CMS is a content management system. A lot of hosting providers offer so-called CMS optimized packages. However, this is a marketing trick because most CMSs do not have special software or hosting requirements.
Trial period is a period of time, usually from 7 to 30 days, during which you can use the hosting services for free to test them.
Moneyback policy allows the customer to receive a refund for his order within a certain period after the purchase.
OS means the operating system is installed on the server. We recommend to choose Linux hosting unless your website requires another OS.
Bulletproof hosting - it’s a type of service that allows to host almost any type of content, even the restricted one (adult content, warez, spam etc). Bulletproof hosting providers do not remove your content in case someone reports an abuse.
Unlimited hosting - refers to companies that provide packages with unlimited disk space, bandwidth, number of domains, databases or email accounts, etc. This is usually a marketing trick but sometimes you can find something worth a try.
Secure hosting - it’s a type of service when the hosting provider is mostly responsible for the security of the user’s account: updates the software installed on their servers, provides an antivirus and malware scanner, firewalls and basic anti-DDoS protection, etc.
DDoS-protected hosting - companies that provide packages that include anti-DDoS protection. These packages are considerably more expensive than regular ones. Nevertheless, they’re totally worth their price because the company will ensure that your website is secured from cyber attacks.
Most websites require MySQL and PHP installed on the server to work correctly. Almost all hosting providers support these technologies.
ASP.NET is a Microsoft web application development platform.
The more comfortable the control panel is, the easier will it be for you to change the website and hosting account settings.
Most hosting providers that are in TOP20 in our rating offer user-friendly control panels, such as cPanel, Plesk or DirectAdmin. That’s why we recommend to pay attention to other, more important parameters, while choosing a hosting provider.