Homestead Review - Homestead Web Hosting & Website Building Tool

You may remember Homestead from your early days of playing around on the internet. The company has been a big name on the internet for a long time. The company was started way back in 1996 and they are still going strong. At the end of 2007 Homestead was purchased by Intuit, the makers of TurboTax and QuickBooks, as part of their strategy to offer more to small businesses.

Homestead's goal is to provide small businesses with an easy way to achieve success online. You can read about the history of the company here http://www.homestead.com/~site/hslo/about/abouthomestead.ffhtml and its creed here http://www.homestead.com/~site/hslo/about/creed.ffhtml.

Instead of paying several thousand dollars for a web site, Homestead’s small business customers can get their own domain set up with nice design for as little as $5 per month. ($10 after the introductory pricing runs out.) Higher levels of service range up to $50 or so per month, a bargain compared to what you’d spend otherwise. The key to their offering is that it is reliable, easy to use, and feature rich.

Homestead Web Hosting offers 2,000 templates for over 100 different industries. Subscribers get their own domain name, emails at that domain, access to 250,000 free images; easy set up of a PayPal cart; automatic submission to search engines like Google; and easy installation of blogs, forums, audio, and video on their drag n' drop site. Homestead provides excellent customer support.

When Forbes named Homestead one of its "Best of the Web" the called it "A Web site building tool for the technically unsavvy. The drag-and-drop software lets you create a Web presence with minimal pain."

Homestead is not a hosting-only solution like 1 and 1 or GoDaddy but it is a great solution for any small business that is looking to create a web site (e-commerce capable or not). Homestead Web Hosting offers a free 30 day trial of its product.