A typical question:
I know I need a web host and a program to create the website, but can anyone suggest any great web hosting sites which provide an professional easy to use online website builder?? I don’t want to use dreamweaver or frontpage because they are pretty confusing! P.S I want to have videos on my site.
Thankyou very much for your help
-Dave
Answer: This is quite a popular question. Free website hosting is probably not for you if you are serious about having a website. Web hosting is one of the most important part of your web presence and can mean the life or death to your business.
Before we give you an absolute answer, these are seven qualities to look for in a good web hosting. An excellent hosting:
- lets you try their service for free or at very low price,
- gives more-than-enough diskspace,
- offers unlimited bandwidth,
- gives multiple add-on domains,
- has friendly Site Builder with thousands of unique templates,
- has QuickInstall to quickly install apps like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, OSCommerce, ZenCart and more
- can be easily upgraded to VPS or one of the best dedicated server plans if and when your business require.
To answer your question, more than 80% of experienced Webmasters recommend to try Hostgator. If you are building your first website and needs a hosting plan, experts usually highly recommend going with Hostgator because they are the best hosting and domain registrar around.
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No web hosting service is perfect. Some complaints about Hostgator plans include:
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- You need to pay full price after your first invoice – well, they need to make money too and all the support and great service do come with a cost. It is like they say, you get what you pay for.
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McHon J says
Well , there is hostgator , google host yahoo and godaddy.
But the most recommended and best web host so far is http://www.NetworkJuiceHosting.com ; Network Juice.
They now offer plans starting around $0.99/mo for a great amount of diskspace plus everything else unlimited. Plus they’ve manage to keep up 99% Uptime.
They have all features such as PHP5, java ,Cpanel , Fantastico ( allows you to auto install Blogging systems and CMS portals without wasting time) , Cron Job , Apache ,Unlimited Dadabase , ftp accounts and much more. Basically EVERYTHING! is supported.
There are other affordable plans as well in NetworkJuiceHosting.com.
Hostgator.com is also a great host , but there Uptime time is not so good. Also , customer service is very poor , Not to many features are supported.
Google.com not so sure , But i know there’s lots of files they do not support , no Cpanel , and i don’t know how come , but they have been receiving downtimes lately in their host servers.
yahoo , let me just say it’s the worst web host ever ,you can’t even host the amount of domains you want to host . Including FatCow.com. The downtime is way to much , and many files are un-compatible in fatcow for some reason.
To buy a domain , the most recommended site is godaddy , but not for it’s hosting!! I Tell you !!!.
For a Great Affordable web host with maximum features , the most recommended web host is http://www.NetworkJuiceHosting.com . ; Network Juice Hosting.
You are getting your answers from an expert , and yes I have tried all these web host.
That’s all I got to say mate 😉
knowguy says
Check out squarespace.com
Magic says
Freewebs
Tripod
Ning
Those 3 are the website builders I commonly use, and pretty easy. Just google the websites if you want one of them.
Matt23 says
Fasthosts.co.uk.
I’ve built 5 websites with their Site Building tool, and their hosting starts from £2 per month, and you get £125 free advertising on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Live (AdCentre).
On the other hand – Frontpage really isn’t confusing. If you researched 30 minutes on how to use it – I bet you you’ll never regret those 30 minutes.
Hope that helps.
abuibollc says
All sitebuilders allow you to do pretty much the same thing. Just about all of them will let you host videos, especially if you’re streaming them from Youtube or Dailymotion.
Both Yahoo and 1 and 1 both have online sitebuilders. I used 1 and 1 and didn’t care for it much. It was way too slow and buggy. Though they have gotten better of late…it was too late for me.
Yahoo has an online and a desktop website builder. Both of them are pretty good, but depends on how much work you want to put into it. If you just want a nice looking template and want to focus on the business side of your website, then go with Yahoo’s Site Solutions tool.
But if you want more flexibility and control, Yahoo’s sitebuilder tool is better, though requires a steeper learning curve. But even that has easy to use templates as well.
An even better way is to get a CSS template, take the time to learn how to use it (about 2 days) and then use FTP to load everything to your webhosts server. It may sound complicated, but it really isn’t.
And the best overall solution is a company called Sitesell. It costs about $300 per year, but it will work. You can build a nice looking site, and get the tools to make it work.
But if you can’t go for that just yet, my suggestion is get a nice template and FTP everything. If you’re not sure how that’s done, go to my website and contact me, and I’ll give you more detailed info.
Mindless says
I suggest BlueHost. It was awarded best web host of the year.
If you are worried about prices than this is surely a host for you; only $6.95 per month! (And now there is a discount for only $3.95!!)
Free, easy online website builders are included.
There is:
Free Domain Forever
Unlimited Space
Unlimited Transfer
Host UNLIMITED Domains (Support All International Domain Names)
2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats
CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, PHP Nuke, MySQL
Front Page Extensions, Mambo and Joomla, Apache
Free Site Builder / Free Search Engine Submission / Fantastico Enabled
It’s excellent for all types of websites.
Here, I am providing you with a link to a BlueHost review http://www.threehosts.com/reviews/1st/
and bluehost’s link http://bluehost.com
PS: I’m sure you can have videos on your site with BlueHost.
vince says
hi
Now a days most webmasters are using WHP because less expensive and reliable service
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Good luck.
Ron says
I use StartLogic, but you need to look at more than a few hosting sites…
Hosting Info:
Web Hosting Jury: http://www.webhostingjury.com/
http://www.rankpulse.com/www.siteground.com
http://www.siteground.com/
http://b2evolution.net/web-hosting/top-quality-best-webhosting.php
http://www.hosting-shopper.com/
Useful Tools/Info:
Web Design Tips: http://www.webweaver.nu/html-tips/
http://hapedit.free.fr/tools.php
Webmaster Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.thesitewizard.com/faqs/
How to Register Your Own Domain Name: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/registerdomain.shtml
Sitemap Generators: http://code.google.com/p/sitemap-generators/wiki/SitemapGenerators
Matt says
I recommend one of these: http://www.webhostingtable.com/
Fatcow has the best offer right now, they have a limited time sale, hosting for $3.67/month ($44.00/year), and you get a free domain (like http://www.yourwebsite.com) from them.
Their hosting plan includes a great web builder, so you can create your site just by drag and drop (without any programming), or you could install WordPress (easy, one click install from their control panel), choose a theme that you like, and start adding content.
P.S. All paid hosts support video, so that won’t be a problem.