Ok y’all, further to last week’s post on web hosting, I found another pretty decent site that also offers packages for website hosting.  Prices seem to range between $1.99 to $9.97/month.

What I really like about these guys is that they break web hosting down and analyze it. They offer some great information on which webhosting would best suit the various content management systems (CMS’s), including some of the more popular ones – Joomla, Drupal, and Wordpress amongst them.  This is a much more complex issue than you would expect.  They also offer quite the comprehensive web site hosting guide, which was clearly written by a hosting expert worth his salt.  It has info on programming languages (PHP vs. ASP.net), and an analysis of the pros and cons of both, including cost-effectiveness, database interaction, and more.   The hosting guide also has a section on managed hosting, which I definitely advocate.  (For those of you who don’t know, managed hosting is when you are hosted on a dedicated server that comes complete with full support for pretty much everything.  Excellent for newbies.  And a smoother ride for old hands.)  I also like that they offer “Best Hosting” for a wide assortment of niches, not just your garden-variety website (i.e. they don’t just have blanket “Best Hosting”; there is “Best Hosting for Blogs”, “Best Hosting for Forums”, “Multiple Domain Hosting”, etc.)

To be honest, from a usability perspective, I don’t love the site – it could stand to be better architected – but I do think it does have some great information.  I would definitely recommend giving it a looksie.