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Basically the advantages of a shared hosting are:


Low cost
No server maintenance


It's cheap because you are sharing server maintenance costs with other people. And this greatly reduce...

Please, stop suggesting HostGator, it was bought by EIG and their service and support have suffered a worsening. You can find a lot of negative review on EIG hosting (are more than 60). Reliable...

It depends on what you mean with "cheap". IMO under $10 per month is cheap. Then, are you searching also for a good reliable service or it doesn't matter?
Usually cheap and reliable don't go...

I'm on BlueHost since 2010, and for my requirements it's good. Some small outages during the years, but I found support really good and fast IMO.

You have to know as others said that BlueHost and...

I never heard about this company.
Your requirements are basic, so should not be difficult to find a reliable web hosting for your site.
Where are located your visitors?

I don't know what type...

your requirements are not so easy to satisfied. I found RoyalWebHosting.net the best free hosting, but there are others.

Obviously, free and reliable are not very friends :) So, it's not a good...

Reading recent reviews, hostgator doesn't seem a good choice.
I'm not aware on VistaPages.

Where do you want the servers? USA, Europe, ...?
Also what is your budget?

For me, web hosting is a service provided by web hosting providers, that rent a space on their server which is alway connected on internet and has an IP address. In this way, you can upload your site...

The main difference is obviously the operating system, Linux is open source (free), Windows is a paid software. Probably, today Linux is more stable, reliable and with greater performance and support...

Read this: http://www.searchenginejournal.com/50-ways-to-increase-the-domain-authority-of-your-site-infographic/77281/

Backlinks are fundamental, but to get them, you have to write very useful...

For me:

- support quality
- site speed (response time)
- 99.95% uptime
- reputation
- live chat
- "unlimited" resources (which are not really unlimited)
- cPanel
- email forwarder

Personally I prefer to use AdWords, because you can have your ads in all sites, not only in FB. This, it's a great opportunity to have your ads on related blog or sites, so user it's really...

Poorly speaking, web hosting is a powerful computer connected to internet where a lot of people can buy some resources, as a disk space, bandwidth, CPU usage, etc. In locations of disk space they've...

Reading real user reviews, I exclude Godaddy and Hostgator, there are a lot of complaints.

It depends on your needs.
I you are going to make an online business, well, buying web hosting it's quite mandatory. Everything it should be under your control, so you can take decisions.
Instead,...

Great questions :)
So, personally:

- a good provider must have an excellent support system with quality tech support, and with excellent speed, uptime and maybe, with daily automated backups

-...

I found useful only to test some code and some wordpress theme on a real server, but don't use them for real website. You don't have any kind of guarantee on the quality of the services you'll have....

If you are starting a basic website, the best choice is look for a shared web hosting (always avoid free web hosting, where you can't have no guarantee on the service).
Personally, I prefer to stay...

Probably is the best way to prove web hosting good service to end users. The support via live chat, can be the first contact with the future customers, so it's the first impression and probably, end...

I would buy an a2hosting plan, because it's more common and you can find more user reviews.
Probably, the best choice is another one, find the best web hosting for your needs. Usually, I prefer to...

It depends on your needs.
Probably, you want to start with a basic personal website, right?
So, check for at least:

- 1 Database
- PHP 4+
- 1 subdomain
- 1 email account
- spam filtering
-...

It depends on what are your needs, because the starting prices are quite the same of the Linux hosting.
So, you have to understand if you want a basic plan for small or personal website, or...

I'm on BlueHost and it's good, but probably most popular web hosting are at the same level in terms of uptime.
Probably, it's better to look for popular and trusted web hosting...

I have no idea with ifastnet, so probably it's better to buy from common web hosting, which are tested by thousands of users and most of them offers a reliable service.
So, why do you want to leap...

Reading real user reviews on internet, I found FatCow as quite good web hosting, but probably, you can find better...
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