HostMonster: 9.9/10

HostMonster has been providing web hosting services since 1996 to many thousands of web sites worldwide. To date, they host over half a million domains! With HostMonster, you can depend on the highest customer service. They offer the latest tools and features to keep your web site running smoothly and the best price for your money.

HostMonster has the disk space and high transfer allowances that large web sites crave. In addition to this, they also offer a free domain name, free setup, free site builder and the ability to host unlimited domain names on your account. This is a fantastic and hugely desirable feature, great for webmasters who have multiple domain names and one of the reasons it's our most recommended choice.

HostMonster wants you to be completely satisfied with every aspect of service and that means providing special attention to taking care of any problems that might arise, quickly and easily. To make this a reality, they offer free toll-free 24/7 phone support and free 24/7 web chat.

Our research showed that HostMonster has a customer satisfaction rate of well over 98%, and they offer a full money back guarantee (see section below).

BlueHost: 9.8/10

Bluehost, located near Salt Lake City, Utah, has been in the web hosting business since 1996 and currently hosts a whopping 675,000+ domain names. They excel in providing low cost web hosting, with many features only found with larger, more expensive hosting companies.

Bluehost offers great hosting deals with the perfect plan for any small to medium business, or personal web site. They currently have one hosting plan, but for the price and what it offers, it can't be beat. In addition to a huge storage and transfer limit, it offers a free domain name for life, free setup, free domain privacy registration, 24-hour toll-free support, with a 2-minute support wait time average.

Account features offered are too numerous to list, but a few that really stood out and are most significant are Flash support, message forum, live chat, web auction software, along with a host of e-commerce shopping cart plugins.

Their site has proven to be fast and reliable. They have a customer service satisfaction rate over 97% and they also provide you with a money-back guarantee (see section below).

PowWeb: 9.5/10

PowWeb was founded in 1999 and has established itself as a top hosting provider worldwide and a leader in low cost web hosting, now hosting over 100 thousands domain names. They maintain a state of the art data center with load balancing, to ensure maximum uptime. They developed their own custom web hosting software and automation, tailored to their customers needs.

PowWeb maintains a one plan, one price business model. The plan offers ample storage and bandwidth allowances and a host of site functionality add-ons, such as a free site builder, 75 MySQL databases and the ability to host unlimited domain names on each account.

PowWeb's reliability is rated as on of the best we have came across, thanks in part to their unique load balancing technology and super fast backbone connections.

They have a customer service satisfaction rate over 95%. They also offers a free domain name and free setup with each purchase, along with a 30-day money back guarantee (see details below).