Choose from one of my trusted hosting providers below. I have personally used these providers, for myself and for clients, so I know that their uptime is reliable. I am also familiar with administering their hosting panels and if any trouble comes up, you can always ask me for help. If you don’t have a domain name yet, you can also register your domain when buying the web hosting account.
HostGator
HostGator is where I host most of my client sites and a few small personal websites.
Hostgator accounts come with:
- Unlimited Disk Space and Bandwidth
- Latest cPanel Control Panel
- Unlimited Sub Domains, FTP Accounts, and Email Accounts
- Unlimited MySQL Databases with phpMyAdmin Access
- Unlimited POP3 Email Accounts with SMTP
- WebMail Access: Horde, SquirrelMail, RoundCube
- Receive your email to your phone via IMAP Support
- 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
- 24/7/365 Premium Support via Phone, Live Chat, and Ticket System (Email)
- Automatic Weekly Off-Site Data Backups
- 24/7/365 Server Monitoring
- No Contract with a 45 Day Money Back Guarantee
- Climate Friendly, Wind Powered, Certified RECs
Use this coupon code 25OFFGATORPH when registering to any HostGator plan and get 25% OFF your first invoice.
Namecheap
I use Namecheap for my domain names. I have not yet tried their hosting service but it is very cheap. Their cheapest hosting starts at USD 2.95/month and comes with:
- cPanel
- 1-Click Software Installer (including WordPress installer)
- Google Apps/Gmail ready
- 20 GB Disk Space
- Unlimited Bandwidth
- 1 Addon Domain
- Unlimited Parked Domains
- 50 Email Accounts
- 50 MySQL Databases
- 50 FTP Accounts/ Users
- PHP, CGI, Perl, JavaScript, SSI & MySQL Support
- 99.9% Uptime Guarantee
Linode
And if, like me, you like total control over your server but do not want to spend a fortune in dedicated servers, then get a VPS over at Linode. My portfolio here is hosted at their Japan datacenter, and so do most of my personal projects. Using step-by-step tutorials from howtoforge.com, I setup my Linode server from scratch to run on Ubuntu + nginx + PHP-FPM.
Disclosure: The links here are affiliate links. I make a small commission when you purchase accounts with any of these services.
