Web Hosting Comparison

December 27, 2007, filed under Blogging Insights


This is the basic comparison of 3 web hosting services I currently use. They are HostMonster , Yahoo! Hosting , and GoDaddy Hosting . HostMonster differs their package time based. This means, the monthly price for a 3 months package is more expensive than a 24 months package, while disk storage, bandwith, MySQL database quota and everything else is the same for all packages.

Yahoo! and GoDaddy hosting services on the other hand, offer packages based on their features like disk space, bandwidth, MySQL database, and others, and secondly on monthly and yearly basis. To make things simple, this comparison table only lists their top and lowest valued package and basic features to look for.

Top Packages Comparison

Features

Yahoo! Hosting

GoDaddy Hosting

HostMonster Hosting

Monthly Fee $25.97/1st 2 mos (normally $39.95) $12.74/mo for 36 months $4.95/mo (normally $5.95/mo) for 2 years
Setup Fee free (normally $25) free free
Disk Space 20 Gigabytes 200 Gigabytes 600 Gigabytes
Bandwidth/mo 500 Gigabytes 2000 Gigabytes 6000 Gigabytes
Email Account 1000 2000 Unlimited
Free Domain Yes No Yes (lifetime)
SubDomains 500 Unlimited Unlimited
Script Support PHP, Perl, MySQL PHP, Perl, MySQL PHP, Perl, MySQL
FTP Accounts 500 11 Unlimited
Backup / Restore Yes Yes Yes
24/7 Support Toll Free Available Available Toll Free Available
Bonus Includes $100 YSM and $50 AdWords credit $50 MS AC and $25 AdWords credit $50 YSM and $50 AdWords credit
Total fee $930.84 for 2 years($25.97 first 2 months) $458.64 for 3 years $118.8 for 2years

Value Package Comparison

Features

Yahoo! Hosting

GoDaddy Hosting

HostMonster Hosting

Monthly Fee $7.77/1st 2 mos (normally $11.95) $3.39/mo for 3years $8.95/mo for 3 months
Setup Fee free (normally $25) free $30 +$10 for domain registration
Disk Space 5 Gigabytes 5 Gigabytes 600 Gigabytes
Bandwidth/mo 200 Gigabytes 250 Gigabytes 6000 Gigabytes
Email Account 200 500 Unlimited
Free Domain Name Yes No Yes (lifetime)
SubDomains 100 25 Unlimited
Script Support PHP, Perl, MySQL PHP, Perl, MySQL PHP, Perl, MySQL
FTP Accounts 500 11 Unlimited
Backup / Restore Yes Yes Yes
24/7 Support Toll Free Available Available Toll Free Available
Bonus Includes $100 YSM and $50 AdWords credit $25 MSAC and $20 AdWords credit $50 YSM and $50 AdWords credit
Total fee $278.44 for 24 months ($7.77 for first 2 months) $122.04 for 36 months $66.85 for 3 months or $118.8 for 24 months ($4.95/mo)

Yahoo! Hosting

GoDaddy Hosting

HostMonster Hosting

Pros


Reliable uptime

Good support response time

Quick domain registration and DNS update

Very affordable economy plan

Wide range of server software

Large resource offers

Huge disk space and bandwidth

Reliable uptime

Strong offers and features

Unlimited add-on domains

Good support response time

Recommended for

Early internet users

Advances who just need large disk storage and bandwidth

Newbies as well as advanced webmasters

You can adjust your budget referring to the table above. If you want to see some more detailed features, please go to each website (HostMonster , GoDaddy , Yahoo! ).

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