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Your small business needs a website if you want to reach a wider audience. With a website, you can post information about your business, establish an online shop, or have an avenue to interact with your customers. To help you take the first step in setting up your website, here is a list of the best web hosting providers for small businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Best Web Hosting for Small Businesses<\/b><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start our list of web hosting providers with companies that offer premium features. Take note prices may vary, as some hosting providers offer promotional rates every now and then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hostgator<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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HostGator offers a wide array of web hosting services. For small businesses, however, we recommend their cloud plans. Under these plans, your website will be hosted across multiple hosting servers. So if one server is down, your website won\u2019t experience any downtime because your data can be switched to another server on the cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloud hosting also means that your website will maintain fast loading times, no matter how much traffic you get. These features make HostGator perfect for any business that has an online shop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HostGator also includes a wide array of tools that help you build or manage your website effectively. Some of these include a free website builder with thousands of templates, unlimited email addresses, and 24\/7 tech support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uptime: 99.99% | Storage: Unlimited | Pricing Per Month: $2.75 to $5.95 | Plan Types: Shared, VPS, Dedicated, Cloud, Reseller<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DreamHost<\/a> <\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n
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DreamHost has a wide selection of plans. If you already have a WordPress site, and you want to optimize it, DreamHost offers a plan specifically made for WordPress. DreamHost makes it easy to build your website with drag-and-drop builder tools, hundreds of great templates, and a very friendly Quickstart Wizard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their most affordable shared plans start at only $2.59 per month. If you choose a long-term contract, their plan prices will typically be discounted. As for tools, DreamHost plans come with a website builder, unlimited email on most plans, a free domain, and 24\/7 ticket support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uptime: 99.98% | Storage: Unlimited | Pricing Per Month: $2.59 – $379 | Plan Types: Shared, VPS, WordPress, Website Builder, Dedicated, Cloud <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BlueHost<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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BlueHost is another great option for small business owners who want a reliable and fast web hosting service. Their 99.98% uptime means your customers can visit your website any time.
Apart from reliability, BlueHost is also a fantastic hosting provider for WordPress websites. In fact, they have dedicated WordPress plans that range from simple pages to e-commerce setups. The latter has three sub-plans starting at $6.95 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With any BlueHost plan, you also get to enjoy the following features: a free domain, a free SSL certificate for secure connection to your website, mirrored storage for data protection, on-the-fly storage upgrades, and dedicated support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uptime: 99.98% | Storage: Unlimited | Pricing Per Month: $2.95 – $119.99 | Plan Types: Shared, VPS, Dedicated, WordPress <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GoDaddy<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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GoDaddy is the go-to web hosting service provider for many business owners because it helps you get everything you need in one place. With GoDaddy you can buy your domain, host a website on their servers, and keep track of your payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GoDaddy has lots of other great features, such as free backups, SSL security, fantastic uptime, and a robust website builder. Depending on the plan you choose, you can even get a one-year subscription to Microsoft Office 365 Business Email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the rates are a little pricey compared to other hosting products, GoDaddy is worth a look when shopping for your business website server and domain provider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uptime: 99.97% | Storage: 100GB – Unlimited | Pricing Per Month: $7.99 – $3499.99 | Plan Types: Shared, VPS, Dedicated, WordPress <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Most Affordable Web Hosting for Small Business <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re just starting out, and you don\u2019t want to spend too much money building your website, here are the best affordable web hosting services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hostinger<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n
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Hostinger offers some of the most affordable web hosting plans on the market, with rates as low as $0.99 per month. What does this cheap monthly plan get you? Well, more than enough to build and manage a basic business website. This single shared hosting plan comes with 10GB of bandwidth, a business email address, and a powerful dashboard that makes it easy to manage your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, if you\u2019d rather explore Hostinger plans with premium features, you can look into their cloud and VPS products. They give you unlimited bandwidth, free domain registration, up to 160GB storage, business email accounts, an SSL certificate, and other powerful tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uptime: 99.9% | Storage: 10GB – 160GB | Pricing Per Month: $.99 – $35.99 | Plan Types: Shared, VPS, Cloud<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

iPage<\/a> <\/b><\/h3>\n\n\n
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And finally, iPage is another affordable web hosting option for small businesses. They offer several plans, including shared and dedicated plans. They also have WordPress plans for those who prefer this platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take note, however, that the $1.99 plan is a promotional price for first-time users. When you renew, you will have to pay the regular fee of $7.99. Still, this price isn\u2019t so bad considering the great features that an iPage has. Some of these features include website builder tools, custom email address, online store integration, unlimited storage with scalable bandwidth, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uptime: 99.94% | Storage: Unlimited | Pricing Per Month: $1.99 – $239.99 | Plan Types: Shared, VPS, Dedicated, WordPress <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t forget to look at the customer service that each web hosting service provides before you make your final decision. But don\u2019t worry too much about being locked in a contract with a hosting provider once you sign up. Most of these have money-back guarantees if you don\u2019t like any of their products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And once you have your WordPress site up-and-running, check out our blog on how to change your default font in WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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