Clustered hosting has lately turned around heads of many including biggies such as YouTube, Yahoo!, MySpace, Flickr etc, which use this web hosting service. Usually, it is chosen by big companies with massive websites receiving thousands of hits every day.

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PacificHost, a provider of linux based, shared and reseller hosting announced earlier today the launch of it’s Premium Hosting service. The service will allow consumers with resource intensive websites to run their website without the high paying cost having a private server.

The service is based on a shared hosting platform however fewer accounts are put on the server, thus allowing more CPU and RAM for websites that require extra processing power. Starting at $15.95/month, the Premium Hosting plans is the next step if a website is too resource intensive for a regular shared hosting enviroment. read more »

Build your Community with Social Networking Applications at LimeDomains

Social networking applications help you create your own version of Facebook, MySpace, Orkut etc. Using Social Networking Apps, you can:

• Create a full-featured social environment.
• Customize your social networks with free widgets & plugins.
• Make a community for just you & your friends

Let us walk you through the Social Networking applications, we have on our platform: read more »

PacificHost, a provider of linux based, shared and reseller hosting announced earlier today the relaunch of PacificHost Web Hosting Services. PacificHost was originally formed in January of 1999 with the intent to sell internet hosting, website design and dial-up internet service. PacificHost recently changed hands and is now under new ownership.

“My experience with previous hosting companies allowed me to re-launch PacificHost as a new and upcoming hosting service. I’m approaching the market from a different angle with a specific target towards the Joomla and FFmpeg based markets, which should allow PacificHost to grow rapidly over the next year, despite the turning economy.” said Thomas Perry, the President and CEO of PacificHost.

Among the unique features being offered by PacificHost includes LiteSpeed which is free on all web and reseller hosting plans. LiteSpeed is a new Web Server Technology that reduces server load and is optimized to serve web pages up to 9x faster than Apached based hosts. PacificHost believes this technology will allow them to reduce operating, costs, increase customer satisfaction and increase reliability. read more »

Dania Beach, FL (Web Hosting Finds) October 16, 2009 – ResellersPanel, the leader in private label reseller web hosting automation, has recently announced the introduction of a dropdown toolbar menu, named Elefante Toolbar, which allows a direct installation of almost 40 open source PHP scripts on customers’ websites. read more »

The developers of leading helpdesk software – Vision, today announced a Mega Special Offer read more »

Agreed, it’s a pain in more places than one when you have to migrate from one web host to the other, but when your needs grow and your current host fails to keep up, it’s best to do the dumping as soon as possible. But before you sever all ties, you must protect what’s yours and make sure your site is up and running without a hitch at your new host. Here’s a list of 13 things you must do before you dump your web host:

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Choosing between a dedicated servers and shared hosting brings up a lot of questions. Does your site need a dedicated server or is shared web hosting good enough? How can I tell? Should I save money or get a powerful server now? How much control will I have with each option? Today I will be answering these questions and hopefully helping to make the choice easy.

When Is The Decision Is Easy?
The decision is easy when you don’t have a choice… If your site is getting tons of visitors, if your current shared host says it is using too many resources, if you are running a lot of dynamic php mysql sites that demand a lot of memory and cpu, or if you can’t afford downtime because you are doing marketing on your sites that can’t be down. Any of these reasons make the decision to go with a dedicated server easy and the real question then becomes what type of dedicated server.

By The Numbers…
You should fit into one of these hypothetical situations… Just keep in mind these are very ruff and you should give your hosting company stats so they can decide.

1. I run WordPress or PHP/MySQL site and get over 500 unique visitors a day. Get a dedicated server. Under that number of visitors and you are probably fine on shared web hosting.

2. I run a static site and get under 500 visitors a day. Shared hosting is fine. Go dedicated or VPS if it grows a lot. Static is a lot easier on the server.

A lot of shared hosts will be fine with bigger sites but its borderline in most cases. I also tend to error on the side of caution. I’ve seen plenty of intensive forums with 3,000 visitors a day running on shared hosting for months and then one day something flukes to cause a spike and suddenly they have 10 days to upgrade.

By The Money
Shared hosting is around $10 a month while a dedicated server is at least $70. It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to make this choice. If money is a factor go with shared hosting.

I Want Control
If you want complete control of your hosting environment go with a dedicated server. Shared hosting will limit what you can do, what you can tweak, and what you can install. With a dedicated server you can do anything you want!

I work for UK2 and over the last ten years have helped a lot of people choose between the dedicated servers we offer versus our shared web hosting. It really just boils down to the above issues.

Coupons are not just for the grocery store…

• Lunarpages Coupon: Enter WHF25 for $25 off plus 1 month on 24 month plans. Redeem…
• FatCow Coupon: $33 off FatCow “moo”pon
• HostGator Coupons – $9.94 off the first month of hosting:
  • iceishot
  • jury
  • freetrial
• Globat 1 Month Free – FREEMONTH

Some web hosting providers offer coupons, others don’t.

Web hosting coupons are out there. Finding them is the problem.

If you are reading this, you probably are already aware that good web hosting is not cheap. Just as retailers use coupons to bait customers into trying new products, web hosting providers use coupons to hook new clients into their service. Because of the nature of web hosting and hassles of moving files to a new host, a client comfortable with their new provider may not choose to switch.

Normally web hosting coupons come in the form of a 6 – 8 digit alphanumeric code
or "coupon code" which buyers seeking discounts may enter into a special field
at the time of checkout. The savings is usually calculated then and there in the
shopping cart.

Web Hosting Coupon Example

The below image illustrates where to input a Godaddy coupon code in the Godaddy checkout process. In this example, Economy Hosting for Linux was selected. The Godaddy shopping cart automatically deducts the amount of the coupon code savings, in this case $.80. That’s how easy it is to save money with web hosting coupons!

You thought Yahoo! was a Search Engine?

Yep, Yahoo Web Hosting. That’s www.yahoo.com, one of the biggest search engine companies on the world wide web, now provides small business web hosting for companies that are just getting started on the web and want a way to communicate with their customers online, attract new customers, and sell their products using the internet. This Yahoo Small Business Hosting web hosting review should give you a feel of the options that Yahoo Small Business Hosting provides.

The Yahoo Small Business Hosting site is well organized and gives you the ability to select from different areas of service to small businesses, such as:

• Web Hosting
• Merchant Solutions
• Sponsored Search

With the Yahoo Small Business Hosting web hosting packages, the idea is to make it possible for small business owners to easily create a professional web site and have secure reliable service that allows them the benefits of a free domain name, unlimited email storage, virtually unlimited web pages and 24-hour toll free customer support.

The starter plans that Yahoo Small Business Hosting offers start from around ten dollars a month, making them ideal for someone who is just getting started on the world wide web and wants to test the waters. The Yahoo Small Business Hosting site is designed to make the entire web site design process easy – you can select the look and feel of your new site from lists of templates provided by Yahoo Small Business Hosting, start entering content, and see what it looks like live on the web right away. If you are just beginning to take your business online, this feature makes it a lot easier for you to set up your web site, especially if you are not particularly technically oriented.

As you progress to higher levels of disk space and bandwidth requirement you can upgrade from the Starter plan to the Standard grade plan and the Professional level plan. Most of the basic features such as the scripts, tools and support are offered for all plans – the only major difference is in the amount of bandwidth and disk space that the plans provide.

Merchant Solutions from the Yahoo Small Business Hosting web hosting provider allow you to quickly set up an ecommerce site, allowing you to make sales over the world wide web and sell your products online at any time of the day or night. The Merchant Solutions from Yahoo Small Business Hosting include a store design wizard that lets you put together an ecommerce site to your own specifications, add your products, set up an online shopping cart system and you can even get support from Yahoo Small Business Hosting in marketing your products online.

Sponsored Search from Yahoo Small Business Hosting works together with the Web Hosting and Merchant Solutions that they offer to give you a full package for creating a site and promoting your business online. With sponsored search results you can pay for impressions on customers who enter a search term related to your business and receive listings in the sponsored search results when someone looks for information.

These plans offered by Yahoo Small Business Hosting make it easy for people without technical skills to quickly put together a professional site, all without spending massive amounts of cash.

www.yahoo.com

Coupons are not just for the grocery store…

• Lunarpages Coupon: Enter WHF25 for $25 off plus 1 month on 24 month plans. Redeem…
• FatCow Coupon: $33 off FatCow “moo”pon
• HostGator Coupons – $9.94 off the first month of hosting:
  • iceishot
  • jury
  • freetrial
• Globat 1 Month Free – FREEMONTH

Some web hosting providers offer coupons, others don’t. Web hosting coupons are out there. Finding them is the problem.

If you are reading this, you probably are already aware that good web hosting is not cheap. Just as retailers use coupons to bait customers into trying new products, web hosting providers use coupons to hook new clients into their service. Because of the nature of web hosting and hassles of moving files to a new host, a client comfortable with their new provider may not choose to switch.

Normally web hosting coupons come in the form of a 6 – 8 digit alphanumeric code or “coupon code” which buyers seeking discounts may enter into a special field at the time of checkout. The savings is usually calculated then and there in the shopping cart.

Web Hosting Coupon Example

The below image illustrates where to input a Godaddy coupon code in the Godaddy checkout process. In this example, Economy Hosting for Linux was selected. The Godaddy shopping cart automatically deducts the amount of the coupon code savings, in this case $.80. That’s how easy it is to save money with web hosting coupons!

Web.com, formerly Interland, plays right in the smaller enterprise web site space. They offer a basic and an advanced shared web hosting solution, with reasonable pricing and all the features needed. Support is offered 24 by 7 for new Web.com customers, while their “legacy” customers are served during business hours EST.

Their standout features include a gift coupon and web coupon generator for the customer’s web presence. Storage space is less than the competitors’, but the service offering is heavy on marketing and web presence management. Another feature they offer is Verisign payment service as part of the product bundle, an advantage for the more cautious business.

Web.com focuses on individuals and small businesses wanting to set up a web presence, and their strategic partnerships reveal this focus clearly. Their EarthLink relationship is obviously geared to cross-sell their web site products to customers signing up for EarthLink’s internet connection services, for example. In fact, they are collocated in Atlanta, GA.

Web.com is an organization on a rebound after being cash flow negative for a time. Originally Interland, the name change was part of a re-organization of the company. It also involved the sale of a server business that was not crucial to the Web.com brand or service offering. Their new Web.com focus on assisting customers to set up web sites that attract market interest and get linked to other sites seems to be working, with a small but significant customer base growth in the year to date.

While other providers link off to other service providers for website art design and graphics, Web.com bundles all these costs and services into one offering, a one-stop-web-front shop. Their testimonials also reveal the effectiveness of this approach, with quick turnaround time posted clearly.

Web.com is thus best geared for the individual and small business looking for a speedy and effectively designed entry into the web space. Their strength lies in setting up a site that will look professionally and competently laid out.

Web.com

Web Hosting Finds’ Review of StartLogic offerings that include Linux shared, Windows shared, virtual, and dedicated hosting

StartLogic is a web hosting provider that offers a lot: Linux shared, Windows shared, virtual, and dedicated hosting, along with some other services such as search engine optimization. A StartLogic employee said the company was independent, but it seems suspicious that PowWeb and StartLogic have the exact same “additional services” pages at the time of writing. The two companies also offer essentially the same services. Other pages on the two companies’ web sites are also very similar or exactly the same.

For essentially the same price, StartLogic provides double the space and bandwidth that PowWeb does. With their Linux hosting package, StartLogic includes:

• A free domain name
• Use of their vDeck control panel
• A 30 day money back guarantee
• PHP 4 and 5
• Web templates and site builders

StartLogic also offers virtual and dedicated servers. Virtual servers can be hard to find and StartLogic offers three different types of virtual private servers starting at around $30 per month. They offer a wide range of dedicated servers ranging from $99 per month at the low end to $349 per month at the high end.

The company offers 24/7 technical support over the phone and live chat. There are plenty of tutorials and knowledge base articles if you find yourself needing additional help as well.

StartLogic hosting provides a wide range of services at a fairly reasonable price.

www.startlogic.com

A Review of Site5 Web Hosting: Revolution, Domination, Empire

It is a pleasure to write this Site5 Web Hosting review, as Site5 web hosting provides their users with some excellent and interesting deals which you can take advantage of to have the web site that you have been dreaming of without having to go through a lot of technical hurdles or pay too much money. Here is a look at the plans and features that Site5 Web Hosting has to offer for you!

The web site hosting plans that Site5 Web Hosting provides give you a lot of great features – this features are things like:

• Search engine submission
• Over 200 free scripts and tools
• Unlimited email
• Unlimited FTP
• Award winning service
• Customer support which is accessible 24/7
• A great control panel for controlling your site

Ruby on Rails is included in the hosting plans, giving you one of the most stable and popular web hosting platforms to design a site that runs smoothly and uses the latest web technology. Site5 Web Hosting also offers you an “ultra-low number of sites per server” so that you will not have problems with slow down and you will always be able to access your site even during periods of high activity.

Site5 Web Hosting gives you free setup with their plans, with a value which is estimated to be close to several months worth of hosting costs. All you have to pay is the monthly price – there are no hidden fees or additional startup fees to contend with and worry about.

Site5 Web Hosting’s email comes with a lot of features such as unlimited email accounts, unlimited forwarders, unlimited auto-responders, unlimited mailing lists, SpamAssassin and so on. The Advanced Features that offer include things like domain parking, subdomains, SSL access to your web site for greater security, unlimited FTP accounts, a web based file manager and more.

The servers that are used for Site5’s sites are technologically advanced, with modern four core processors and more than enough RAM to handle high bandwidth and make your web site accessible to people during periods of high activity without slowing down or crashing. There is also a lot of server software included in Site5’s hosting plans, such as

• Perl
• MySQL databases
• PHP 4 & 5
• Python
• ImageMagick 5+
• CGI scripting.

Beyond the great hosting plans that they offer in their shared hosting configuration, Site5 Web Hosting also lets you take advantage of Reseller Hosting – web space that you can resell to make a profit. With “Revolution”, “Domination” and “Empire” plans to choose from, Site5 Web Hosting gives you a full range of disk space options and bandwidth options to purchase and resell at monthly prices which are competitive with the other reseller space providers on the world wide web.

Site5 Web Hosting makes it easy for you to set up a basic web site and load it with advanced features, whether you are new to the world wide web or an experienced web designer. It gives you the freedom to make great choices for your web site as well as the support for a smooth online experience.

A review of ServerPronto’s dedicated web hosting that features low cost servers with lots of OS and control panel choices.

ServerPronto.com is different than the company’s usually reviewed here at Webhostingfinds.com because it is a dedicated web hosting provider. They market themselves as the “world’s most affordable dedicated server” and their servers are just that – very cheap.

ServerPronto does back their cheap servers, though. They offer a 99.9% network uptime guarantee. This doesn’t cover the hardware, but does cover the company’s network. They claim to have superior bandwidth and top of the line servers. Before taking any of those agreements and promises to heart, though, be careful to read their terms of service and any other legal documents. It is a good idea to review and understand those before believing any of the marketing speak.

ServerPronto’s pricing and packages is complicated at best. The servers start at $29.95 per month with a $69 setup fee and go all the way up to $249.95 per month with a $149 setup fee. There are lots of addons and extra charges if you want things like cPanel, a managed firewall, or extra bandwidth. Keep in mind that most of those addons and upgrades are standard in the industry – they are not unique to ServerPronto.

Server Pronto offers a wide range of operating systems:

• Red Hat
• Fedora
• Free BSD
• Debian
• Suse
• Gentoo
• OpenBSD
• CentOS
• Ubuntu
• Windows (extra fees)

They also offer most of the industry standard control panels (extra fees for all of them except Webmin):

• Webmin
• Plesk
• cPanel
• Helm

All of ServerPronto’s servers are self-managed, so it is up to you to make the server work. The company mainly offers support over its ticket system and phone calls can be arranged for individual incidents or time periods.

If you want a bare bones dedicated server at a low price, ServerPronto is a good choice.

Get a full dedicated server starting at just $29.95!

Web Hosting Finds’ Review of PowWeb Hosting, a provider of nearly 10 years:

PowWeb (PowWeb.com) is one of the largest web hosting companies out there. They entered the web hosting scene in 1999 and have grown to become one of the most prominent names in the web hosting industry.

PowWeb claims to utilize load balancing technology. When applied, this technology has the potential to eliminate single points of failure, thus resulting in a more reliable web site. The use of the “grid” makes it so a single server can have a problem without it affecting the web sites on the server.

PowWeb prides itself on its “one plan, one price” mantra. The plan costs $5.77 per month and has no setup fees if you decide to signup for two years. The minimum contract length (3 months) is $7.77 per month with a $30 setup fee.

The one plan includes more than enough space and bandwidth for any web site and makes use of PowWeb’s load balanced technology. Other nice features include with the plan are:

• SnapShot Instant Click and Restore Daily Backups
• DNS management
• Script Instant Installer (which PowWeb says is better than Fantastico)
• Free domain name included
• Easy to use site builder

There are plenty of support options at PowWeb. They have 24/7 email, phone, and live chat support. Their community forum has more than 20,000 members. There are lots of tutorials and helpful knowledge base articles for customers to browse and learn.

In addition to regular web hosting, PowWeb offers exchange hosting, which is fairly pricey ($12.95 per month for a 500 MB email account). Other services offered by the company include marketing services and e-commerce services (credit card processing, etc).

PowWeb is a typical budget web hosting provider. They offer fairly good hosting at a reasonable price. If they can really deliver with their load balancing service, the company has the potential to really deliver a superior web hosting service.

PowWeb.com

Most people probably think of Network Solutions (www.networksolutions.com) as a domain registrar, but in fact, the company is a large one-stop shop that includes web hosting. Network Solutions is a company having the unique ability to boast one of the earliest startup dates in Internet: history: 1979. The “dot com people” claim to be the domain name hosting service pioneers, having 25 years in the business.

As a web hosting provider, Network Solutions supplies everything required for setting up a website with rich functionality, and they describe their server room environment in great detail. Each hosted solution is therefore protected with diesel backup, fire protection and humidity-controlled air conditioning. They’re one of the few service providers who specifically mention their backups.

Pricing offers good value for money, with no real surprises, but the full feature set is on a par with the EarthLink offering and there are enough deeper technical toys to get web developers salivating. In 2006 Network Solutions were certified to an industry standard for call centers, reaching performance levels within the “top 20% of customer service.”

If a business is looking for a domain to purchase, Network Solutions offers a full service. Backordering an existing domain name or making a certified offer can be done by Network Solutions. Domains coming up for expiry can also be searched and booked for purchase, as can names up for deletion. Network Solutions offers an auction format for these domains.

The Network Solutions WHOIS service gives the facility of searching for a particular domain name across multiple registrars. Network Solutions can then supply the information available for the domain of interest, including a thumbnail of the website at that domain.

Our review notes that the Network Solutions’ CEO recently won an award for most effective turnaround CEO, so the organisation is currently riding on a wave of success and improving processes and delivery. Prices are good and there seems to be a lot of energy spent in improving customer service, with a person on the other end of a support call as standard. Service delivery is solid and as mentioned, contains many features.

The Network Solutions web hosting service also offers a limited 30-day money back guarantee, increasing peace of mind, while their Homepage, Starter or Enhanced website packages allow a complete web presence to be built as part of their hosting solutions. It is reassuring to see that Network Solutions has a solid web hosting product suite backed up by their skills in domain name management, should a business be required to negotiate for a key domain for their web presence.

Network Solutions Web Hosting Offer:

Free Domain With Annual Hosting Plan!

midPhase is not an unheard of name in the web hosting industry. This provider has been serving customer files since 2003. The company has won a plethora of awards from places like WebHostMagazine and CNET. This midPhase review takes a look at the hosting service offerings.

midPhase offers a 99.9% uptime guarantee, a 30 day money back guarantee, and a service quality guarantee. midPhase provides phone support over email and the telephone – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. They are large and reputable enough where you can feel fairly confident that they will be around when your web site goes down at 2 AM one night. In addition to that level of human powered support, midPhase offers a comprehensive tutorial center, a large knowledge base, and community forums.

midPhase’s inexpensive plans offer more than enough space and bandwidth for any web site. For the administrative web hosting control panel, they use the industry standard cPanel (a demo is available on the midPhase.com web site), which offers:

• Email (mail accounts, forwarders, auto responders, etc.)
• FTP (accounts for individual directories, etc.)
• Easily installable scripts such as web blogs, forums, etc.
• Statistics to track the amount of visitors your site gets and other information.

midPhase only offers two Linux web hosting plans:

• Mega-Phase, which starts at $7.95 per month.
• Pro-Phase, which starts at $11.95 per month.

As a customer, you can also add and upgrade features right from your control panel. midPhase’s basic plans only comes with one MySQL database, so if you foresee yourself needing more than that, be prepared to pay extra.

Our review of midPhase shows they offer a series of web site marketing extras including search engine submission and up to $300 in free ads. The company, which sports a very sleek web site, also offers web design services.

midPhase is an industry leader that has obviously been doing things right since 2003. The company is a good choice for any prospective webmaster who wants a pretty good web host at a pretty good price.

Lunarpages web hosting took root in the year 2000 and has grown into a large, established web hosting provider with 150,000 clients, 100 employees, several datacenters, a call center and affordable web hosting product offerings.

Like many web hosting providers these days, Lunarpages accounts are administered through a control panel or cPanel, one of the most popular software scripts for managing a web hosting account. Similar to it’s implementation with other web hosting providers like BlueHost and HostGator, the panel gives web hosting account holders a graphical interface to install a features and perform necessary site owner tasks (too many components to list here).

Lunarpages web hosting has clearly made customer retention a goal. The provider points out that a very important area of concentration is supporting customer needs. And, if you have ever owned a Web site and hosted it somewhere, you will very likely understand the importance of responsiveness when something goes wrong. There is nothing worse than the feeling of helplessness experienced when your site is down and no one is available to help or seems to care. Each Lunarpages web hosting plan provides 24-hour toll-free customer support, membership to Lunarpages forums, and tools that can make life easier for maintaining your Web site.

What types of web hosting plans are available?

Lunarpages web hosting offers shared plans ranging from $6.95 to dedicated plans at $99.00. Here is a list of the major plans offered now (see Web site for details):

• Basic Web Hosting
• Windows Web Hosting
• Linux Virtual Private Servers
• Business Web Hosting
• Dedicated Web Hosting
• Windows Virtual Private Servers
• Reseller Web Hosting

Lunarpages web hosting plans are at the forefront of industry standards, and their most popular Basic Web Hosting package is a competitive with other cPanel hosts at $6.95/month. It includes:

• 1500GB storage
• 15000GB bandwidth
• $700 in Coffee Cup Software
• Free Domain Name for Life
• Special Offer on Web hosting Transfers $2.99 Domain Registrations
• Frontpage extensions
• MySQL
• PHP
• PERL
• ASP
• Python
• JSP

Reading through the Lunarpages site and lively blog, one gets the feeling that there is truth in the Lunarpages statement “We truly love what we do.” Having tested the Lunarpages shared hosting, we can say with confidence that we are happy with the service and support.

Visit Lunarpages.com

X Web Hosting is a sizable web hosting company that claims to host more than 200,000 domains from their Kentucky datacenter. Their CEO’s message says they have more than 130 full time employees.

IX Web Hosting offers both Linux and Windows hosting plans. Their main three plans are below:

• Expert – $3.95 / month
• Business – $6.95 / month
• Unlimited – $12.95 / month

All of the plans have very generous with resource allocations (they start at 600 GB of space and 6,000 GB of data trasnfer) and offer more than enough for pretty much any web site. As with any company, be weary of their claim to offer “unlimited” space. Each plan comes with the expected features such as unlimited subdomains, email, databases, developer support, etc.

IX Web Hosting’s web site is informative, but cluttered. There is a lot of information, plenty of FAQs and tutorials, and many explanations. They have a helpful video tutorial that takes new customers through the order process and they have plenty of video tutorials to guide you through the basics of creating and operating a web site.

The control panel offered to IX Web Hosting customers is clunky, but useful. Their web site offers a free demo that potential customers can explore and play with. The control panel, which is called H-Sphere, offers all the expected features of competitors like cPanel, but looks antiquated. It does not use any Web 2.0 like features such as AJAX and has 1998-esque graphics.

IX Web Hosting offers 24/7 technical support over their ticket system, the phone, and live chat. The company takes pride in the fact that they don’t outsource their support staff and provide plenty of ways to get in touch.

In addition to web hosting, IX Web Hosting offers:

• Web design services starting at $995
• Credit card processing services that allows you to take major credit cards
• Discounts for advertising and marketing

They have a range of marketing incentives and addons that are offered with their plans and these can be very useful to a new webmaster looking to get his or her business started.

For casual site builders looking for a fairly good host with a fair range of products and services, IX Web Hosting is probably a good choice.

www.ixwebhosting.com