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Learn more about web hosting companies and finding the right one for your project. Explore in-depth reviews, comparisons & guides.

FastComet Hosting Review: Pros and Cons of Using FastComet

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FastComet is a 9 year old independent web hosting company headquartered in San Francisco, USA. Their team and services span the entire globe. They focus on shared & cloud hosting services with a focus on predictable pricing & fast customer support.

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FastComet has been in the hosting business for over 9 years, first providing professional services to private and business clients before launching their own public cloud hosting service in 2013. Their core offering is an SSD Cloud Hosting solution that is “one of the most accessible and affordable on the Web Hosting Market”, and are backed by a 24/7 support team of real people.

Due to their pricing and rapid growth, I’ve had a few readers asking what I thought of them, so while shopping for a new budget host for a side project, I decided to sign up and give them a try.

Here’s my FastComet Hosting review – structured with pros & cons based on my experience as a customer.

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Web.com Hosting Review: Pros, Cons & Alternatives

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Web.com is a web hosting & website builder brand owned by the Web.com Group. They are one of the largest and oldest brands in the industry. The Web.com Group also owns brands like Network Solutions, Register.com and 1ShoppingCart.

Along with Bluehost and GoDaddy, they have some of the highest brand recognition in the general public due to their huge investment TV, radio, billboard and traditional advertising. In Atlanta, I’m pretty sure they’ve bought a significant portion of the bus stop ads. They also sponsor the 2nd tier professional golf league in America.

Web.com Homepage

That kind of offline advertising plays to their core marketing message as the one place to get your website, online marketing and everything to go with it. Though technically speaking, Web.com offers only entry-level hosting & a DIY website builder application with upsell marketing services.

You can check out Web.com’s plans and pricing here.

Due to my skepticism from their offline ads, I’ve never previously tried Web.com. But after a friend asked about them, I decided to give them a try with a small trial website.

Here’s my Web.com Hosting review – structured with pros & cons based on my recent experience as a customer.

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What’s The Best Blog Hosting for Your Project?

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Choosing the best hosting for your blog is a tough and often all too confusing process in general. There are so many options, so many upsells and so many opinions based on anecdotes. And really, there is no such thing as an absolute “best blog hosting” – there is only the hosting that is right for you considering all the tradeoffs – speed, service, customer support and pricing (of course).

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What’s The Best Shared Web Hosting Provider for Your Website?

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Figuring out how to choose the best shared web hosting for your website is a tough and often all too confusing process. It’s tough especially because there is no such thing as an absolute “best shared web hosting” There is only the web hosting that is right for you considering all the tradeoffs.

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What is Reseller Hosting?

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Reseller Hosting is a hosting product that dedicates specific server resources to an administrator who can create shared hosting accounts. Reseller Hosting is typically used as a stable, affordable product for freelancers & agencies to provide to clients. It allows agencies & freelancers to generate recurring revenue via hosting, maintenance & turn-key solutions while providing clients with world-class infrastructure & technical expertise.

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What’s The Best Reseller Hosting for Web Designers?

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Choosing the best hosting for your own website is a tough and often all too confusing process in general. It’s even tougher considering that when you are evaluating a Reseller Hosting provider – a business that can directly affect your own clients (and your reputation). Plus – finding the best reseller hosting is important upfront because they are hard to leave once you’ve committed. And you likely know that there is no such thing as an absolute “best reseller hosting company” – there is only the hosting that is right for you and your clients considering all the tradeoffs – speed, bandwidth, service, customer support and of course – price.

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How To Move Your WordPress Website To A New Hosting Company

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Tired of your current hosting company and want to move?

A while back, I got really tired of GoDaddy hosting several of my small projects and decided to move many of my small websites over to HostGator*.

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GoDaddy Web Hosting Alternatives for Your Website

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There has never been so many options for hosting a website or blog. And GoDaddy is possibly the most well-known brand in the website services industry. Although they began as a domain registrar, they have used their brand recognition and massive ad spend to become one of the largest hosting companies & website builder companies in the world.

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eHost Hosting Review: Pros, Cons & Comparisons

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eHost is a web hosting brand owned by Endurance International. They offer shared Linux hosting (what nearly all starter website owners need) in the form of single unlimited plan. They have been around for a while, but were only recently relaunched by their parent company.

Their datacenter is located in Houston, TX within (what appears to be) the same facilities as their sister brand HostGator. Like most shared hosting companies, eHost also provides email, a website builder, and various complementary services to web hosting.

You can check out eHost’s plan and current pricing here.

I’ve had several readers email to ask my opinion about eHost, so I decided to give them a shot in my recent shopping tour of entry-level web hosts.

Here’s my eHost Hosting review – structured with pros & cons based on my experience as a customer.

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