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Now in its 22nd year, US-based InMotion Hosting provides hosting and domain registration services to more than 570,000 customers. Alongside the Linux-based shared hosting we’re reviewing here, it offers WordPress hosting, reseller plans, virtual private server hosting and dedicated servers. However, it only has servers in two locations: Los Angeles and Washington DC.

We’re taking a look at its Power plan, the specifications for which are outlined in full below but, elsewhere, the InMotion offering starts with a Core tier, at $2.29 (£2.05) per month for the first year. This lets you host two websites and ten email accounts on 100GB of storage.

Above this, Launch ($4.99 (£4.12) per month for three years) is almost identical to the Power plan that we’re reviewing, and has the same…

With more than 20 million customers, GoDaddy is one of the biggest web hosts going. Indeed, it claims to be “the world’s number one web host” and offers a full range of domain registration, hosting, and email services, with bolt-on options like online stores, marketing tools, and backup.

We’re testing its Linux-based Deluxe Hosting product, but there are equivalent options for Windows-based hosting, WordPress hosting, and dedicated servers for customers with the most demanding requirements.

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GoDaddy review: What do you get for the money?

Deluxe hosting lets you publish ten websites and up to 50 subdomains occupying a combined 50GB of storage. You have 25 databases to share between them, each of which can host a maximum of 1GB of data, and bandwidth is…

WordPress powers more than 40% of the web. It underpins blogs and newspapers, online forums and photo-sharing sites, and it isn’t uncommon for web hosts to offer dedicated WordPress hosting packages. Even those who don’t understand its appeal – many offer WordPress installation as a one-click option from their hosting dashboards.

They can do this because the WordPress engine is an open source project that anyone is free to download and install, without payment or subscription.

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WordPress review: What do you get for the money?

As well as managing the CMS itself, the company behind it, Automattic, also offers hosting plans of its own via WordPress. There are five tiers to choose from, plus a custom solution called WordPress VIP that’s used to run enterprise-scale…

DreamHost was founded in a college dorm in the late 1990s and has grown to become one of the web’s largest hosting providers. Based in the US, it’s home to more than 1.5m websites, with 400,000 customers in 100 countries.

As well as the Shared Starter hosting plan we’re reviewing here, it offers managed WordPress hosting, dedicated server hosting, and cloud and VPS hosting.

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DreamHost review: What do you get for the money?

DreamHost is unusual in offering monthly hosting plans, as well as annual and three-year deals.

Whichever period you choose, the Shared Starter tier lets you host a single website with unlimited traffic, unlimited storage, a free SSL certificate and, optionally, WordPress installed through the control panel. Email is extra, starting at $1.67…