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Top Web Hosting Deals in the Market

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In a competitive market of web hosting services, the customers approach the ones who offer the best web hosting deals to their customers. When a customer searches for hosting firms, they all more or less look similar with almost the same packages with unlimited disk space, unlimited bandwidth and 24/7 customer support. Although all these are important to attract the customers, there is much more to hosting services than just the regular low cost hosting packages that you can offer.

It has now become very important that you narrow down to a customer's requirements depending on the website (or the set of websites) that they run, and offer them the best deal rather than forcing your default packages on them. Yes, it has to be customized from client to client now and that is how you win over a large group of customers.

Here are some of the best web-hosting deals offered by the leading players in the market, in various hosting segments like shared hosting, VPS hosting, dedicated hosting, and reseller hosting -

a. Best Shared Hosting Deals

There are many hosting providers that offer world class shared hosting services in different packages. There are plans for the beginners and then there are bigger plans for business level customers. The pricing and services depend on the packages.

We all know HostGator, one of the hosting leaders, known for their affordable packages and quality services. For example, they have something called the "Hatching Plan", which includes single domain and Shared SSL Certificate along with the unlimited disk space and bandwidth. You get all these just for $3.96/month. Then there is “Business Plan”, which costs $10.36/month and includes features like ability to host unlimited domains, free private SSL and IP and free toll free number. This can be a perfect example of how a hosting firm design packages depending on the requirements.

b. Best VPS Hosting Deals

Virtual private servers are used extensively by various firms for hosting purposes. There are many clients seeking VPS hosting services and the competition is equally tough.

Once again it boils down to the kind of web hosting deals that you offer. Jaguarpc is one of the best service providers that provide a VPS at affordable cost with top notch support. Some of the packages offered are Linux VPS Plus, Linux VPS Pro, Linux VPS Business and Linux VPS Enterprise. The pricing starts at as low as $19.00/month and goes up to $69.00/month for the Enterprise package. The VPS Plus includes services like 25 GB disk space, 3,000 GB bandwidth, 512 MB RAM and 2048 MB Burst RAM.

c. Best Dedicated Hosting Deals

Dedicated hosting is costlier but still in great demand, thanks to the continuous rise in bigger enterprises that want a dedicated server to make sure there are no shared losses and shared technical glitches. They also need top class confidentiality of their resources and the best security possible.

Inmotion, one of the leaders in dedicated hosting, and offers some of the best dedicated web hosting deals in the market and lives up to the promises it makes to the clients. The packages include Dell Servers, dedicated control panel without any hidden costs, top class 24/7 customer support and free set up along with 30 days money back guarantee.

d. Reseller Hosting

JustHost gives great web hosting deals on reseller packages, and you can avail them for as low as $120/annum, and start your own web hosting business.

They offer great support, and you get all the freebies right from MySQL Wizard, Fantastico De Deluxe, and ability to host unlimited add-on domains as well as a free-for-lifetime domain with the hosting package (which is free so long as you pay hosting charges of course!)

e. Hosting With Domain Registration

Sure thing, when we talk about domain registration, the first name that comes to anyone's mind is surely GoDaddy, the biggest domain registrar in the world, but once again, as mentioned above, JustHost does a fantastic job in cutting down on your domain registration cost.

With their business hosting packages, you also get up to 5 free-for-life domains along with the hosting packages, and if you intend to run only 4-5 powerful sites, it's certainly a fantastic deal to say the least.

So, you need to look at these fantastic web hosting deals, and come up with some as good as these (or even better) to be able to make a mark in this extremely competitive hosting market, where a new hosting company is entering almost every other day (thanks to the cheap reseller hosting packages on the offer). Don't make the mistake of launching your hosting firm without doing your groundwork, and studying your competitors otherwise you'll have very feeble chances of getting enough customers, let alone the chances of dominating the market!

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