Hostwinds Web Hosting

If you want a powerful and flexible web hosting service, Hostwinds should be on your radar. Hostwinds offers an array of shared, virtual private server (VPS), dedicated, cloud, WordPress, and reseller hosting packages designed to appeal to both mom-and-pop shop owners and bigger businesses. In fact, Hostwinds' feature-packed VPS and reseller offerings make it an Editors' Choice in those categories. Overall, Hostwinds is one of the best web hosts we've reviewed.


Shared Hosting

If your website doesn't require high-end servers to keep it up and running, shared web hosting may be right up your alley. The low-cost web hosting places your website on a server with other websites, thus sharing system resources. Because resources are shared, you pay less, but you definitely get what you pay for. If your site mates get big traffic spikes, your site could be slow or even unavailable. Hosts do their best to prevent this from happening, but that in itself could mean that if your site gets on the front page of Reddit your host might throttle it, or even take it offline.

Hostwinds offers attractive, wallet-friendly Linux-based shared hosting plans that come in three flavors: Basic, Advanced, and Ultimate. Basic (starting at $4.50 per month) offers unlimited monthly data transfers, unlimited storage, a free dedicated IP address, and the ability to host a single domain. Advanced (starting at $5.50 per month) builds on Basic by letting you host up to six domains. Ultimate (starting at $6.50 per month) adds the ability to host an unlimited number of domains. Unless you're really strapped for cash, there's not much reason to select anything other than the Ultimate plan if you want a Hostwinds shared hosting package that offers room to grow. As with other web hosting services, Hostwinds tosses discounts your way if you sign up for multiple months.

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