List of the best shared hosting providers ordered by combined rating, quality and and shared web hosting experiences - Updated: February, 2012
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Bluehost
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9.97
Hostmonster
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9.91
Fastdomain
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9.87
Hostgator
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9.81
Myhosting
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9.51
Inmotion hosting
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9.46
Ixwebhosting
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9.41
Lunarpages
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9.34
Dreamhost
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9.32
Webhostingpad
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9.25
Justhost
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9.21


Webhostingpad is USA based web hosting company established in 2005. It offers only shared hosting. There is only one hosting plan in which are included many features that are included on most hosts: unlimited domain hosting, unlimited disk space and bandwidth, PHP, MySQL, cPanel for very cheap price.

Webhostingpad control panel

Webhostingpad offers cPanel the industry control panel. This panel have everything you need to manage your web hosting account. Add databases/users, setup FTP, add new domains or subdomains, upload files with File manager, install scripts with Fantastico and other.

Webhostingpad support

Webhostingpad have live chat, phone and ticket support.

Webhostingpad Review and Rating

We have been with web hosting pad almost four months and we are really satisfied from the services they offer. Our test account showed excellent uptime and response time. We have tested popular scripts including phpbb, wordpress, joomla, drupal cms, galleries and other scripts and all work great. Rating 9/10.

Hostmonster is well established serious hosting company. It specializes in shared hosting and offers only one hosting plan. This hosting plan have everything you will ever need and don’t need to run your website. Unlimited hosted domains are allowed on single account, unlimited bandwidth, space, FTP, PHP, MySQL, cPanel control panel and lots of others.

Hostmonster control panel

With hostmonster control panel cPanel you can do many hosting tasks: administration of databases and users for databases with databases cPanel tool and phpmyadmin, FTP accounts and FTP quotas, addon domains, access site logs, setup email accounts, configure PHP settings, use File Manager to change files online and other. Fantastico de luxe one-click installer for popular web applications (wordpress, drupal, joomla, phpbb etc is also included.

Hostmonster Support

Hostmonster offers 24/7 support via tickets (email), phone and live chat.

Hostmonster Rating and Review

Hostmonster is rated top host on many hosting reviews sites with excellent rating. We definitely recommend them for share hosting provider.

Justhost

Justhost is a web hosting company with its offices in USA, UK and Australia. Offers shared and reseller hosting. It is popular hosting provider with hundreds of domains hosted on their servers.

Justhost Shared hosting plans

Justhost offers only shared hosting plan. Features included are: PHP, MySQL, FTP, Free domain name, Free setup, cPanel control panel, unlimited domain hosting, unlimited databases, unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth and many other features. With this plan you can create your website, blog or online community. From the scripts that we have tested on Justhost: wordpress, drupal (content management system), joomla (cms), galleries, shopping carts and other scripts. All were running great on Just Host. The price currently is $3.45/Monthly. Guarantees: anytime money back guarantee, 99.9% uptime and 24/7 support.

Justhost Control Panel

Justhost offers cPanel control panel. cPanel is the most popular control panel. It allows you to easily manage hosting tasks. You can create new databases/users, add new domains/subdomains, setup FTP accounts ( and quotas). cPanel have also a web based File Manager where you can edit files online.

Justhost Support

Just host provides support via tickets, phone and live chat.

Overall Rating

Overall rating 9/10. They are good and recommended hosting provider. We have two months account with them and so far we are satisfied with the service they offer.

Ixwebhosting??

Ixwebhosting is USA hosting company offering shared and VPS (virtual private server) hosting services since 1999. Datacenters are located in Columbus, Ohio and Hopkinsville Kentucky, United States of America. Have good number of awards and good reviews.

Shared hosting plans

There are three hosting plans: Business Plus, Unlimited Pro and Expert plan. All plans include this features: host unlmited sites on single account with unlimited space and bandiwidth, PHP, MySQL, Ruby On Rails, FTP, Control Panel and others. With Expert Plan 1 free domain name is included, while with Business Plan – 2, and with Unlimited Pro three free domain names. Also 3, 2, 15 dedicated IP addresses are included respectively. These are the key features, to see all features click this link.

IxWebhosting Control Panel

Control Panels allow management of websites and automation of hosting task over the internet (with web browser). Ix web hosting offers Hsphere control panel. It is similar to the popular cPanel you know. With Hsphere you can create new databases, upload/download files, setup FTP accounts, add new domains, install scripts and other tasks.

IxWebhosting Support

Tickets, phone and live chat is offered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We have contacted them 2-3 times and response was fast usually within 30 minutes. The technicians were knowledgeable and nice.

Overall rating

I give 9/10 of ixwebhosting. The uptime and response time of my sites hosted there is very good. I recommend them as shared hosting provider.