Best Web Hosts

The Fastest Growing Domain Registers!

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Fastest Growing Domain Registrars

Best Free Webhosts!

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Position	Free Webspace Host	Rating	# Votes
1	50Webs	9.59	1626
2	AwardSpace	9.59	1570
3	AtSpace	9.55	1790
4	LeadHoster	9.39	31
5	HelioHost	9.27	55
6	ByetHost	9.25	813
7	X10Hosting	9.12	124
8	100Webspace	9.05	4027
9	ProfuseHost	9.04	53
10	iFastNet	8.96	510
11	110mb	8.91	213
12	Free Domain Site	8.91	35
13	PhpNet	8.47	179
14	RipWay	8.40	660
15	FateBack	8.40	298
16	125mb	8.24	37
17	NetFast	8.06	34
18	AstaHost	7.78	91
19	My-Place	7.77	48
20	Xrea	7.72	25

Top 25 Best Web Hosts

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#1 GloVine (Top 25 for 4 months)

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GloVine, in operation since 2004, is an Australian provider of quality internet web solutions, whether it be premium hosting, web domains, or quality web designs. GloVine is devoted to providing low p ...

#2 Ezywebhosting (Top 25 for 4 months)

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Ezywebhosting is committed to provide a comprehensive business presence on the Internet. We know that reputation in the information age means everything. The only way to succeed is by taking care of o ...

#3 AC Webhosting (Top 25 for 20 months)

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AC WEB Hosting believes that an affordable solution to your hosting needs should be available to the people who do not have to have allof the bells and whistles, but who merely want a good deal. ...

#4 LiveBackup Pty Ltd (Top 25 for 11 months)

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LiveBackup is Australia’s foremost managed data backup and restore provider. Combining our world-leading technology, local data centres and exceptional service, we bring a unique storage-as-a-service ...

#5 MD Web Hosting (Top 25 for 15 months)

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MD Web Hosting is an Australian Accredited Domain Name Registrar for .au Australian Domain Names. With a wide selections of domain names you are able to manage them through a single, intuitive control ...

#6 Aconex (Top 25 for 10 months)

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Aconex is an online document management and web collaboration system that uses the internet to manage information for projects of all sizes in construction, engineering and facilities management. ...

#7 Macquarie Telecom (Top 25 for 6 months)

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Australia's Most Trusted and Accredited Business Hosting Company - Number One for Mission Critical Application Hosting Macquarie Hosting offers a range of Business Hosting Solutions including Dedi ...

#8 Arachno Net (Top 25 for 13 months)

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We offer state of the art virtual and dedicated hosting services,with a comprehensive online support manual and frequently asked questions section backed up with our 24hr online support. Features of o ...

#9 Anchor (Top 25 for 16 months)

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Prevailing business logic tells us that in corporations of many people only a few are responsible for most of its productivity. So, when we wondered what would set us apart from other hosting companie ...

#10 AccessWeb (Top 25 for 16 months)

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Accessweb Hosting offers extensive experience and full featured web hosting packages for Australia and the World. Our customers include universities, large e-commerce web sites, online dating sites ...

#11 Action Websites (Top 25 for 18 months)

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We specialise in ecommerce solutions that increase your sales while decreasing your administration. We deliver professional custom designed websites providing you with a unique and identifiable brand. ...

#12 AusWeb (Top 25 for 14 months)

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Whether you're just getting started with your first website or are an IT Professional, you'll appreciate the features we offer with our web hosting plans. Manage all aspects of your web hosting from o ...

#13 AccurateHub Networks (Top 25 for 16 months)

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Accurate Hub Networks was founded in June 2008. Since then we have been growing rapidly, offering new products/services, and developing new ways for our clients to easily bring their website online. ...

#14 AUHost4u (Top 25 for 14 months)

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Australian Web Hosting Provider offering premium web hosting including Free Web Hosting within the Australian market. ...

#15 Ace-Hosting (Top 25 for 15 months)

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Ace Hosting is a business which provides website hosting. The business is run by owner-operators Neill and Rob. If you are shopping around for a website hosting company please read our why choose us? ...

#16 ACEdot (Top 25 for 11 months)

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Web Hosting - Need space to put a new website? Our hosting plans are what you need. You can register a domain as part of the ACE Dot hosting registration process so if you need a new domain and hostin ...

#17 Ozevision (Top 25 for 2 months)

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Our Web Hosting / Domain Names plans are amongst the best in the world. We provide generous web hosting space and generous data traffic at brilliant prices with lightning fast 24x7 support and 99.9% u ...

#18 Digital Pacific (Top 25 for 19 months)

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Everything Digital Pacific uses across our business operations including servers, routers and air conditioners are eco powered. So not only are you hosting your website on state of the art hardware, y ...

#19 Netregistry (Top 25 for 18 months)

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When you trust your website to a company, you should know where your data is held, and that it is secure. At Netregistry, our hosting infrastructure is operated from one of the world's leading data ce ...

#20 Azureus Hosting (Top 25 for 10 months)

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Azureus provides Website Design, SEO, Online Marketing, Web Development, eCommerce, Shared, Reseller and Dedicated web hosting solutions. Our services are designed for both beginners and professionals ...

#21 Aseohosting (Top 25 for 1 month)

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Seo web hosting or known as multiple ip hosting is a way to host multiple domains with multiple ip or multiple dns hosting. Seo hosting gives opportunity to create organic links to website you like ...

#22 D&D Studios (Top 25 for 3 months)

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D&D Studios has always been at the forefront of best value Australian web hosting. Our Shared Web Hosting plans offer unlimited traffic and 25GB or more of disk space, unlimited email accounts and man ...

#23 Dots & Coms (Top 25 for 10 months)

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We specialise in professional website development services for small & large scale businesses at fixed prices. We also offer range of website design packages from basic website design to full service ...

#24 Aussie Webhost Pty Ltd. (Top 25 for 1 month)

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AussieWebhost is one of the leading, 100% Australia based Web Hosting and Domain Name Registration provider. Based in Sydney Australia. ...

#25 Broadway Solutions (Top 25 for 3 months)

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Broadway Hosting provides robust industry-standard website hosting solutions tailored to your individual needs. Shared hosting through Broadway Domain is the most cost-effective means for businesses a ...

Best types of web hosting.

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Internet hosting services can run Web servers; see Internet hosting services.
Many large companies who are not internet service providers also need a computer permanently connected to the web so they can send email, files, etc. to other sites. They may also use the computer as a website host so they can provide details of their goods and services to anyone interested. Additionally these people may decide to place online orders.

Free web hosting service: offered by different companies with limited services, sometimes supported by advertisements, and often limited when compared to paid hosting.
Shared web hosting service: one's website is placed on the same server as many other sites, ranging from a few to hundreds or thousands. Typically, all domains may share a common pool of server resources, such as RAM and the CPU. The features available with this type of service can be quite extensive. A shared website may be hosted with a reseller.
Reseller web hosting: allows clients to become web hosts themselves. Resellers could function, for individual domains, under any combination of these listed types of hosting, depending on who they are affiliated with as a reseller. Resellers' accounts may vary tremendously in size: they may have their own virtual dedicated server to a collocated server. Many resellers provide a nearly identical service to their provider's shared hosting plan and provide the technical support themselves.
Virtual Dedicated Server: also known as a Virtual Private Server (VPS), divides server resources into virtual servers, where resources can be allocated in a way that does not directly reflect the underlying hardware. VPS will often be allocated resources based on a one server to many VPSs relationship, however virtualisation may be done for a number of reasons, including the ability to move a VPS container between servers. The users may have root access to their own virtual space. Customers are sometimes responsible for patching and maintaining the server.
Dedicated hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server and gains full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, the user typically does not own the server. Another type of Dedicated hosting is Self-Managed or Unmanaged. This is usually the least expensive for Dedicated plans. The user has full administrative access to the box, which means the client is responsible for the security and maintenance of his own dedicated box.
Managed hosting service: the user gets his or her own Web server but is not allowed full control over it (root access for Linux/administrator access for Windows); however, they are allowed to manage their data via FTP or other remote management tools. The user is disallowed full control so that the provider can guarantee quality of service by not allowing the user to modify the server or potentially create configuration problems. The user typically does not own the server. The server is leased to the client.
Colocation web hosting service: similar to the dedicated web hosting service, but the user owns the colo server; the hosting company provides physical space that the server takes up and takes care of the server. This is the most powerful and expensive type of web hosting service. In most cases, the colocation provider may provide little to no support directly for their client's machine, providing only the electrical, Internet access, and storage facilities for the server. In most cases for colo, the client would have his own administrator visit the data center on site to do any hardware upgrades or changes.
Cloud Hosting: is a new type of hosting platform that allows customers powerful, scalable and reliable hosting based on clustered load-balanced servers and utility billing. Removing single-point of failures and allowing customers to pay for only what they use versus what they could use.
Clustered hosting: having multiple servers hosting the same content for better resource utilization. Clustered Servers are a perfect solution for high-availability dedicated hosting, or creating a scalable web hosting solution. A cluster may separate web serving from database hosting capability. (Usually Web hosts use Clustered Hosting for there Shared hosting plans, as there are multiple benefits to the mass managing of clients)
Grid hosting: this form of distributed hosting is when a server cluster acts like a grid and is composed of multiple nodes.
Home server: usually a single machine placed in a private residence can be used to host one or more web sites from a usually consumer-grade broadband connection. These can be purpose-built machines or more commonly old PCs. Some ISPs actively attempt to block home servers by disallowing incoming requests to TCP port 80 of the user's connection and by refusing to provide static IP addresses. A common way to attain a reliable DNS hostname is by creating an account with a dynamic DNS service. A dynamic DNS service will automatically change the IP address that a URL points to when the IP address changes.

Some specific types of hosting provided by web host service providers:

File hosting service: hosts files, not web pages
Image hosting service
Video hosting service
Blog hosting service
One-click hosting
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Shopping cart software
E-mail hosting service

What is a webhost?

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A web hosting service is a type of Internet hosting service that allows individuals and organizations to make their own website accessible via the World Wide Web. Web hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own or lease for use by their clients as well as providing Internet connectivity, typically in a data center. Web hosts can also provide data center space and connectivity to the Internet for servers they do not own to be located in their data center, called collocation or Housing as it is commonly called in Latin America or France.

The scope of hosting services varies widely. The most basic is web page and small-scale file hosting, where files can be uploaded via File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or a Web interface. The files are usually delivered to the Web "as is" or with little processing. Many Internet service providers (ISPs) offer this service free to their subscribers. People can also obtain Web page hosting from other, alternative service providers. Personal web site hosting is typically free, advertisement-sponsored, or inexpensive. Business web site hosting often has a higher expense.

Single page hosting is generally sufficient only for personal web pages. A complex site calls for a more comprehensive package that provides database support and application development platforms (e.g. PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, Cold Fusion, and ASP.NET). These facilities allow the customers to write or install scripts for applications like forums and content management. For e-commerce, SSL is also highly recommended.

The host may also provide an interface or control panel for managing the Web server and installing scripts as well as other services like e-mail. Some hosts specialize in certain software or services (e.g. e-commerce). They are commonly used by larger companies to outsource network infrastructure to a hosting company.