Top 10 Dedicated Web Hosting Provider in 2010
By Partho, Gaea News NetworkSaturday, May 8, 2010
We have already done with the top 10 shared web hosting providers. Now we decided focus on the dedicated web hosting providers. As we had already sited in our article dedicated web hosting has a number of advantages over shared hosting. There are enough Given the cost and intricacies dedicated servers provide numerous benefits to your business. Dedicated are ideal for resource-intensive ecommerce websites and extra security for web projects. Unlike shared hosting in dedicated hosting resources with neighboring website are not shared. It is an ideal hosting solution for high demand websites that require huge storage space and transfer speeds for multiple databases or for sites that run memory-hogging applications. Further, dedicated web hosting services offer varying degrees of service and management. After an extensive research we assembled a list of 10 dedicated servers.
1. HostMonster
It is one the fastest growing web hosting companies on web. HostMonster offers unlimited web hosting, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains and unlimited domains and unlimited email account at a competitive rate. They also offer unlimited Pop/Imap email accounts, SSH access(Secure shell), SSL, FTP, Stats, CGI, Ruby(RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL, Front Page extensions, Free domain foreever, free site builder, best support in the industry. The normal rate for hosting at this site is $6.95. However, you can go through the hostmaster coupon code affording the package at $3.95.
The CPANEL is easy to use and each hosting account comes with 50 powerful website scripts.
Key Feature
- Free Domain Name or Domain Transfer
- The company claims to offer 99.9% uptime
- Instant setup
- Free site promotion
- Free 1 Click Installer for over 50 scripts
- Free SiteBuilder w/Templates
- $50 Free Yahoo Credits
- $50 Free Google Credits
Price
HostMonster is one of the cheapest dedicated web host provider that offers hosting at $3,95.
2. HostGator
The dedicated web hosting service offers fully managed solutions that have been designed to fit the needs of most businesses. The dedicated web hosting allows provides higher level of security, speed and uptime. Hostgator gives different web-hosting plans depending on the needs of the client. Currently, they offer three package plans - Hatchling, Baby & Business. The hatching plans for one domain. Baby Plan is set for suitable for those working on multiple websites. Business plan is set for startup businesses.
Each of the plans offer packages that are reasonable enough for your web hosting needs. These plans come with unlimited disk space and bandwidth. Further, HostGator also offers unlimited MySQL databases and POP3 email accounts. HostGator is ideal for those planning on establishing a huge web application.
Price
Starting plan comes at $174
3. JustHost
They offer dedicated web hosting to meet the needs of any webmaster which is ideal for large business or companies involved in Ecommerce. With dedicated IP it is more secure then shared IP address. Your website will be assigned a unique and unchanging IP address. Dedicated IP makes it easier to use SSL or anonymous FTP. Dedicated IP and SSL is crucial for those interested to host a HTTPs secure website that have a lot of private data transaction over the internet such as credit card numbers. Justhost allows the benefits of SSL without any charges that are usually associated with setting up a SSL server. The web host provider provides cpanel account to design and customize the website.
Key Features
- Cheap hosting cost, only
- Unlimited web space and monthly data transfer
- Unlimited databases, host unlimited domain and email addresses
- Free domain for life included with each hosting package
- Award winning support, available 24/7 via email and live chat
- Free advertising credits on different ad networks in total $90 on google, yahoo, miva and bidvertiser
- Free site builder and on click installation software for joomla, wordpress, drupal, phpbb forums, b2evolution and more
- cPanel control panel that gives you the possibility to manage your domains, email addresses, files and scripts
- Unlimited email, MySQL, cpanel, ecommerce.
Price
Hosting plan comes at $3.45/mo
4. Inmotion web hosting
This dedicated web hosting service offers easy to setup websites and emails, modifications, and monitoring through their control panel user page. Online explanations of features and instructions are clearly written. The best part is the customers service. InMotion’s three business plans – Launch, Power and Pro – all come with a free domain or domain transfer; unlimited disk space; unlimited bandwidth; secure POP3, IMAP and SMTP email; SPAM Safe email; two WebMail options; autoresponders, email forwarders and aliases; customizable email and spam filters; a box trapper spam filter; email domain forwarding; modifiable MX record; FTP accounts with 24/7 access; FTP session control and customizable FTP accounts; control panel; data backup; a premium site builder; a choice of two Web builders; and an additional file manager.
They now offer unlimited disk space and bandwidth, support for most programming languages/environments, and one of the most complete support packages we’ve seen to date.
InMotion can be an ideal host for ecommerce offering Google Checkout, and shopping cart systems like Cube Cart, OS Commerce, and Zen Cart. However, you would require an SSL secure certificate if you intend to accept credit card payments, and its not free.
Price
Starting plan at $199.95/mo
5. DedicatedNOW
It’s a fast, reliable and comprehensive dedicated web hosting service. DedicatedNOW utilizes one of the fastest and most reliable Internet backbones in the industry with multiple points of redundancy and all Tier1 Providers. Our data center gets its multi Gigabit bandwidth network through two independent POP, while hosting a number of network routers, load balancers, firewalls, Internet servers, and switches, our data center can accommodate private cages, large server farms, and suites.
Key feature
- 100% Uptime Guarantee
- Free DDoS Protection
- Full Management
- 24/7 Proactive Monitoring
- Full System Security Lock Down
- 50GB Offsite R1Soft Backup
- DOTDEFENDER Firewall (Free with cPanel servers)
- SSL VPN
- Redundant HSRP
- KVM Over IP
Price
Starting plan at $200
6. GreenGeeks
The dedicated web hosting provider claims to be the most eco-friendly web hosting company. They offer unlimited bandidth, unlimited disk space, unlimited domain name hosting and mightly backup.
Key features
- Unlimited Web Space
- Unlimited Bandwidth (Data Transfer)
- Host Unlimited Domains on 1 Account
- Unlimited E-mail Accounts
- Unlimited MySQL Databases
- FREE Domain Name for Life
- FREE Site Migration
- FREE Marketing Credits
- FREE Web Site Builder + Templates
- Fantastic North American Support
Price
Starting plan at $6.95
7. GoDaddy
Go Daddy provides both Unix and Windows based hosting plans. It offers three different packages - Economy, Deluxe and Unlimited. Each of the hosting plans offer autoresponders, email forwarding, spam and virus protection, “Light” WebMail, a file manager, site statistics, 290-plus greeting cards, a Getting Started Guide, an option for add-on SSL encryption, site statistics, support for FrontPage and credits for Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter.
All hosting plans offer autoresponders, email forwarding, spam and virus protection, fraud protection, email sender ID authentication, “Light” WebMail, a file manager, site statistics, 290-plus greeting cards, a Getting Started Guide, an option for add-on SSL encryption, site statistics, support for FrontPage and credits for Google AdWords and Microsoft adCenter. They also come with free add-on options for Vanilla forum, YetAnotherForum, Gallery image gallery, BlogEngine.Net, dasBlog, Serendipity, WordPress, ZenCart, DotNetNuke 4.0, Joomla!, advanced guestbook and paid add-on options for ColdFusion.
Economy plans for both Unix and Windows come with 10 gigabytes or disk space, 300 gigabytes of bandwidth, support for unlimited domains and external domains, and support for up to 25 sub-domains.
Deluxe Unix-based hosting features support for Perl with FASTCGI, Python CGI, Java, Ruby CGI and Ruby on Rails with FASTCGI.
The Unlimited hosting plans offers unlimited disk space and bandwidth, along with 1000 megabytes of mailbox space, 1000 email accounts, 50 FTP accounts.
Price
Economy Plan starts at Rs248.41/mo
Deluxe Plan starts at Rs316.28/mo
Unlimited Plan starts Rs678.28/mo
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8. SingleHop
SingleHop specializes in dedicated and managed hosting services. It offers both Unix and Windows based options for customers. Unix-based dedicated servers support both CentOS (4.x) and Debian operating systems. It offers three packages: S-P430X, the S-CDUO and the S-E2200, all of which come with 250 gigabytes of disk space and 5000 gigabytes of bandwidth. The S-P430X features an Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz Hyper-Threaded processor, while the S-CDUO comes with an Intel Conroe Core2Duo E6320 Dual-Core 1.86 GHz processor and the S-E2200 uses an Intel Pentium Allendale E2200 2.2 Ghz Dual-Core processor.
SingleHop’s managed dedicated server plans come with IMAP, POP & SMTP email services; DNS (BIND); HTTP (Apache on Linux, IIS or Apache on Windows); Apache add-ons and modules; MySQL; Java/JSP/Servlets and support for Apache Tomcat. There are a variety of third party scripts and software and control updates and software management. All the general managed server plans also offer two hours of system administrator trouble-shooting time per month, with add-on options for more time.
Price
Starting plan at $99
9. LunarPages
They offer dedicated hosting plans aimed at enterprise level businesses and advanced users who need their own dedicated server. Their hosting plans feature password-protected directories; OpenPGP/GPG encryption; shared SSL certificate; Fantastico script installer with more than 35 applications for blogs, osCommerce, Zen Cart and CubeCart shopping carts; FAQs, guestbook, surveys, photo gallery, wiki and more; and support for PHP, Perl, FrontPage, Python, Dreamweaver, Ruby on Rails, Apache 2, Microsoft Silverlight, streaming audio and video, RealAudio and Video, Flash, Shockwave and MIDI files.
Their Unix web hosting plans come with unlimited add-on and parked domains; unlimited sub-domains; unlimited disk space; POP3, IMAP and SMTP email; unlimited email accounts; unlimited autoresponders and email forwarding; two types of WebMail; mailing list; spam protection; unlimited FTP accounts; an online control panel; CGI-BIN; Server Side Includes; custom error pages; custom mime types; an add-on option for shell access; and unlimited MySQL and postgreSQL databases.
Price
Starting plan for Linux hosting is available for $99/mo
Starting plan for Windows hosting is available for $134/mo
10. 1&1 Dedicated
Dedicated Servers from 1&1 offers a powerful line of servers designed for high performance websites. The Linux Servers are self-configured for individual needs of businesses. Windows Servers are Completely configurable. 1&1 ensures high performance components to ensure stable service by providing AMD processors, top-tier connectivity and highly secured data centers. They also provide elaborate and permanent security management features with configurable firewall, recovery tool and GeoTrust certified SSL certificates.
Key features
- High performance hardware at value prices
- Choice of Operating System
- RAID-based hardware
- 24/7 Technical Support
- 99.9% uptime
- 1 domain included FREE
- GeoTrust certified SSL certificates
- High performance data center
- SSH shell access
- FTP backup available as an add-on
Price
The value plans start at $99.99/mo
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