Top 5 Budget Web Hosting Companies

Over the past ten years I've seen my fair share of web hosting companies come and go. Some good, some bad, and some just down right horrible. Having to find a home for all of my domains has sometimes been a nightmare. A company that might have looked promising last week might disappear and be out of business this week. So to save you the time and trouble that I had to go through, I present: Eric's Top 5 Budget Web Hosting Companies.

#5 - Host Gator (www.hostgator.com)

I used Host Gator a few years ago for a pretty popular forum I ran. They had pretty good reviews on WHT (www.webhostingtalk.com) at the time, so I signed up. They offered plenty of bandwidth and disk space, but only allowed you to host a single domain. At $6.95 a month (paid yearly), I gave them a shot.

The first month was pretty smooth, but the high price for a single domain was a downfall. I had four other domains with four other web hosting companies... I left Host Gator in search of someone that would host all of my domains for a single price.

#4 - Site5 (www.site5.com)

I decided to go with Site5 because they offered reseller plans for $20 a month which allowed me to host all of my domains on a single server. I ended up staying with Site5 for about a year, but then the server I was on started having problems. My sites were constantly down and this went on for more than a month. Apparently other people (on different servers) weren't having the same issues I was, but it didn't matter. I went on the hunt for a new provider.

#3 - Lunarpages (www.lunarpages.com)

Lunarpages was another site that required me to pay up front for a year, but promised a refund if I wasn't satisfied. For only $6.95 a month they said I would be able to host all of my domains on a single account.

I was pleasantly surprised with Lunarpages. For more than a year I stayed with them, until they ended up banning the forum script I was using for one of my sites. They said the script used up "too much of the system resources" and so I found myself once again hunting for a web hosting company.

#2 - HostICan (www.hostican.com)