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Are you satified with your web hosting provider? They all say they have no hidden costs, but is that true? That's true. But it is also true that they knowingly try to confuse online shoppers by providing obscure information about their products. For more information, check out 'Non-transparent costs.'
As you probably know, ALL web hosting review sites don't tell negative things about the servies they review. That's only because they are affiliates. They are just counting money while you read their reviews, hoping that you will click on one of the links to sign for a web hosting plan they introduce.
We review a dozen web hosting plans. And we will tell you a lot of bad things about some of the web hosting providers we have ever associated with. Click on the name of the hosting plan below the blue arrow under 'Web Hosting Plan' to learn details.

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Web Hosting Quick Comparison

Web Hosting Plans	1 Yr Price	Disk Space	Mo. Bandwidth	Subdomains	MySQL

LunarPages - Basic	$59.40	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited
LunarPages - Business	$263.40	Unlimited	15,000 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited
HostMonster	$83.40	Unlimited	Unlimited	Unlimited	100
midPhase - Mega	$83.40	750 GB	7,500 GB	1	1
midPhase - Pro	$143.40	999 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited	3
StartLogic - Prologic	$83.40	Unlimited	Unlimited	3?	5?
POWWEB	$46.56	1,500 GB	15,000 GB	Unlimited	75
IPOWER - Pro Plan	$59.40	1,500 GB	15,000 GB	Unlimited	25
IPOWER - Pro Plus	$155.40	2,000 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited	25
HostRocket	$119.88	1,000 GB	Unlimited	Unlimited	10
Globat - Tera Byte Xtreme	$95.40	1,000 GB	1,000 GB	0	3
Globat - Tera Byte XS	$239.40	5,000 GB	2,000 GB	Unlimited	10

Watch out for a monthly fee scam: It's a common marketing strategy that HostMonster, StartLogic and others often use. They indicate a monthly fee based on a 2 year sign-up. Such monthly fee is usually $1 or $2 lower than for 1 year sign-up. After paying up and seeing a credit card bill, you will realize that you've been scammed and are paying $12 or $24 more than you had thought. They do it because other web hosting companies do it, too. Does FTC care?

Click on the gray button for more information on an individual hosting plan. (Last updated on September 3, 2008)

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LunarPages (Basic) Free domain x 1	Diskspace: Unlimited, Bandwidth: Unlimited, Subdomain: Unlimited , MySQL: Unlimited , Add-on Domains: Unlimited, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $59.40 Strength: Good support, File transfers with TLS
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Lunarpages（Business） Free domain x 4	Diskspace: Unlimited, Bandwidth: 15 TB, Subdomain: Unlimited, MySQL: Unlimited, Add-on Domains: Unlimited, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $263.40 ($237.40 with a coupon)
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HostMonster (bluehost) Free domain x 1	Diskspace: Unlimited, Bandwidth: Unlimited, Subdomain: Unlimited, MySQL: 100, Add-on Domains: Unlimited, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $95.40 Weaknesses: Not so good customer support Strength: SSH, supporting Greek characters for passwords
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midPhase（Mega） Free domain x 1	Diskspace: 750 GB, Bandwidth: 7.5 TB, Subdomain: 1, MySQL: 1, Add-on Domains: None, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $83.40 Weaknesses: MySQL , subdomains
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midPhase（Pro） Free domain x 1	Diskspace: 999 GB, Bandwidth: Unlimited, Subdomain: Unlimited, MySQL: 3, Domain aliases: Unlimited, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $143.40 Weaknesses: MySQL
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StartLogic（Prologic） Free domain x 1	Diskspace: Unlimited, Bandwidth: Unlimited, Subdomain: 3, MySQL: 5, Add-on Domains: None, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $83.40 Weaknesses: MySQL, subdomains, bad support, fraudulent practice
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POWWEB Free domain x 1	Diskspace: 1.5 TB, Bandwidth: 15 TB, Subdomain: Unlimited, MySQL: 75, Add-on Domains: 6 E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $46.56
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IPOWER（Pro Plan） Free domain x 1	Diskspace: 1.5 GB, Bandwidth: 15 TB, Subdomain: Unlimited, MySQL: 25, Domain aliases: Unlimited, E-mail accounts: 2,500, Annual price: $47.70 Weaknesses: Terribly slow transfer speeds
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IPOWER（Pro Plus） Free domain x 3	Diskspace: 2 GB, Bandwidth: Unlimited, Subdomain: Unlimited, MySQL: 25, Domain aliases: Unlimited, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $155.40
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HostRocket（ROCKETfreedom） Free domain x 1	Diskspace: 1 TB, Bandwidth: Unlimited, Subdomain: Unlimited, MySQL: 10, Domain aliases: None, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $119.88 Weaknesses: MySQL and disk space/ terrible customer support
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Globat（Tera Byte Xtreme) Free domain x 1	Diskspace: 1 TB, Bandwidth: 1 TB, Subdomain: 0 , MySQL: 3, Add-on Domains: 10, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $95.40 Weaknesses: MySQL and subdomains
	Plan rating:	Support rating: Undetermined

Globat（Tera Byte XS) Free domain x 1	Diskspace: 5 TB, Bandwidth: 2 TB, Subdomain: Unlimited, MySQL: 10 , Add-on Domains: 100, E-mail accounts: Unlimited, Annual price: $239.40 Weaknesses: MySQL
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* Please note that these best 3 hosting plans are chosen merely in terms of package quality over prices and does count hosting company's support quality. How about their support? They all suck. You will only get what you pay for. The only person you can depend on is only yourself.

No. 1

HostMonster

HostMonster gives you a lot of disk space and bandwidth as well as plenty of MySQL databases and unlimited number of subdomains. You also get FTP over SSH with this relatively affordable hosting package while other hosting companies don't. Furthermore, you can control many website aspects such as setting up subdomains, blocking IP addresses, protecting folders through its control panel Cpanel XP EVOLUTION, which is very easy to use.

Sounds like a terrificly good deal... Well, the true life of hosting a website only begins after purchasing a hosting plan. You can get all those nice features, but HostMonster's support is not very good. They often ignore Help Desk tickets. We reported a problem with sending a message with an attachment, for example, through Help Desk. But we have been ignored for months. If we ask again, we get ignored. Expect that it will take them 4 to 5 days to get back to you after you open a support ticket. If you can't wait that long, you can use their live chat function but have to wait in line for 20 minutes or so.

First-time webmasters may not be happy with HostMonster's web hosting package. Nonetheless, you can also argue that no hosting company is perfect. Do StartLogic and HostRocket always answer Help Desk questions within 3 days? In our experience, the answer is 'No.' Wherever you go, you will experience the exactly same problems. If you are an experienced webmaster who can help yourself in time of trouble, your best hosting choice is definitely HostMonster. If you can't help youself, then you may want to find a different web hosting company.

Click here to go to HostMonster.

No. 2

LunarPages - Basic

Lunarpages Basic gives you pretty much the same good deal with HostMonster. You get plenty of disk space and MySQL databases. You can set them or cancel them very easily with its excellent control panel cPanel Pro.

Lunarpages also offers free CoffeeCup Software package, a $26-off discount coupon and $50 Yahoo Search Engine Marketing credit (if applicable). Note that this promotion ended for one-year plans last October (2007). You can still get a $26 discount only if you sign for two years or longer.

Although Lunarpages doesn't offer FTP over SSH, Lunarpages offers FTP over TLS, which is as secure as the former secure layer file transfer protocol. If you are a Windows user, FileZilla has been tested and works for FTP over TLS. For Mac OS, we have used Cyberduck and YummyFTP. YummyFTP works for FTP over TLS while Cyberduck doesn't when 'Try to use TLS for data channel' is checked off.

Click here to go to Lunarpages.

No. 3

IPOWER - Pro Plan

cPanel is a widely-used control panel. And IPOWER uses a less popular control panel called vDeck just like StartLogic does. If you have used vDeck 2, you may fear that IPOWER only offers 5 free subdomains and 3 folder pointings. We felt deceived, and that's one of the major reason why we abandoned StartLogic a few years ago. With the adoption of vDeck 3, IPOWER will actually give you unlimited numbers of subdomains and folder pointings.

One aspect of IPOWER that you may not like is that they don't offer a secure means of file transfers. HostMonster claims they offer Secure FTP (SSH2) and TLS. (HostMonster's TLS doesn't work.) Lunarpages also unofficially offers TLS. But, to our knowledge IPOWER offers none of them to their host clients.

Click here to go to IPOWER.

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