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Any GoDaddy web hosting review you read is likely to spotlight at least three standout features: the free hosting plan, the website builder and GoDaddy’s 24/7 support. The free plan is an excellent way to test-drive GoDaddy’s website builder and other features before you commit.

You’ll find mixed reviews about its support team’s response time and the quality of support, but there’s also a robust knowledge base, which makes it easy for you to find an answer on your own. The 24/7 support is standard for some of the best web hosting companies, but not all include phone and live chat. GoDaddy offers support through those avenues, plus email.

Despite the few cons we listed, GoDaddy remains one of the most popular choices for…

InMotion Hosting makes our 2021 list of best web hosting services. The company offers one of the more competitive money-back guarantee policies, with a 90 day trial period. InMotion Hosting also has excellent customer service, which includes accessible live chat for tech support, phone support and a community forum. It can be stressful to try and fix errors on your website when you don’t know what’s wrong, and it’s helpful knowing InMotion Hosting will be able to offer support easily and quickly.

Here’s how the cost breaks down by plan for basic shared hosting:

• $19.99 per month for month-by-month plans (only available for Pro tier)
• $6.99 per month for the one-year plan
• $5.99 per month for the two-year plan

InMotion…

A2 Hosting specializes in offering its clients lightning-fast website speeds, which A2 states are up to 20 times faster than what you get with other hosting providers. Faster sites mean an improved website visitor experience as well as an SEO advantage.

A2 Hosting offers four different shared hosting plans: the Startup, Drive, Turbo Boost, and Turbo Max plans. To tap into A2’s fastest servers, you’ll need to go with either the Turbo Boost or Turbo Max plan.

A2 Hosting offers a 30-day money-back guarantee. What’s unique about A2, though, is that it provides a prorated guarantee after 30 days. That means you can get a refund for any unused service at any time.

You’ll also find it easy to add useful applications to your website thanks to the Softaculous auto-installer. Click on the…

The benefits of a dedicated server may be worth the added cost, so you may not even need to read this section. If you’re on the fence and wondering whether it’s worth increasing your monthly cost tenfold, then you may want to keep reading to see what you’re getting with your own server.

Server Uptime Guarantee

You’ve likely seen web hosts boast 99.9% server uptime. That’s nearly 100%, so it has to be good, right? No server is going to be up 24/7. Web hosts have to perform maintenance, and so occasionally servers will be down. Hosts will tell you when the server will be down, and that downtime doesn’t count toward the guarantee.

However, if your server is down at any time other than the scheduled maintenance, you’re likely entitled to a portion of your…

Our list of the best cheap web hosting companies focuses on monthly cost, term lengths and overall value. You should keep a few factors in mind when you’re choosing the best web host for your website, cheap or otherwise.

Unlimited vs Unmetered

Web hosting services seem to shift between unlimited and unmetered in regards to storage and bandwidth with little explanation. If you read the fine print of the Terms and Conditions from each host, you’ll usually find the answer.

If your storage is unlimited, it often comes with conditions. For example, if you use too many resources on a shared server, as it relates to others on the server, the web host may ask you to remove files from your site.

Unmetered bandwidth usually means that the hosting company isn’t paying much attention…