Which is the best web site hosting? Which is the best business Web site hosting? Which is best free Web Site hosting? You don’t need to guess it anymore. The Top 5 web site hosting poll results are out.
The polls were conducted worldwide with over 127560 webmasters casting their votes.
With over 25 web hosting companies fighting for the top spot and nearly 15 webhosting companies fighting for the category honors, the battle was intense.
The polls stretched for just over three months. For the first couple of months, each of the Web Site Hosting companies were given equal opportunity to compete, however for the last month the number of contestants per category was reduced to 10, with the bottom five participants knocked off.
We used following categories for polls.
- Top 5 Web Site Hosting
- Top 5 Business Web Site Hosting
- Top 5 E Commerce Web Site Hosting
- Top 5 Cheapest Web Site Hosting
- Top 5 Blog Hosting
We asked each of voters to nominate two web site hosting services from each category. The initial rankings are based on the number of votes that each company got. In case there was a tie (A tie is a situation in which the difference in number of votes cast in favor of participants differ by 0.10 % or less of the total votes for that category) the votes of critics was given preference.
Here are the poll results :
Top 5 Web Site Hosting Service providers.
A lot of enthusiasm was seen in our voters towards the overall top 5 category. With over 200 thousand votes casted, the battle here was pretty hard fought between all 25 competitors . The cut off for the entry in top 10 was 4% of the total votes and top 5 was 8 % of the total votes . Here are the detailed results.
| Rank | Hosting Company | Price per month | Domain Name | Disk Space | Transfer | Vote % | Website |
| 1 | InMotion | $ 8.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 21.17 | Visit |
| 2 | Hostgator | $4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 18.69 | Visit |
| 3 | Blue Host | $ 4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 13.89 | Visit |
| 4 | GoDaddy | $12.74 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 11.98 | Visit |
| 5 | Lunar Pages | $ 4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 8.83 | Visit |
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At the end InMotion web site hosting came on top with over 21 percent of the votes in its favour.
Top 5 Business Web Site Hosting
| Rank | Hosting Company | Price per month | Domain Name | Disk Space | Transfer | Vote % | Website |
| 1 | InMotion | $ 4 | Free | 150 GB | 1500 GB | 21.68 | Visit |
| 2 | HostMonster | $4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 16.03 | Visit |
| 3 | WebHostingPad | $ 3.96 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 8.89 | Visit |
| 4 | Hostgator | $ 4.95 | $ 15 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 8.32 | Visit |
| 5 | Lunar Pages | $ 4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 6.08 | Visit |
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We expected InMotion to dominate Business Web Site hosting category and it didn’t disappoint us. Host Monster also performed pretty well but it has to be said that this category had some real tough competition from third place onwards. The cut offs for top 10 level were 4.8 % of the total votes.
Top 5 E Commerce Web Site Hosting
| Rank | Hosting Company | Price per month | Domain Name | Disk Space | Transfer | Vote % | Website |
| 1 | HostMonster | $ 4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 18.69 | Visit |
| 2 | Bluehost | $4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 16.87 | Visit |
| 3 | Yahoo Hosting | $ 8.96 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 13.54 | Visit |
| 4 | IX Web Hosting | $ 4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 12.36 | Visit |
| 5 | Hostgator | $ 4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 10.77 | Visit |
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Top 5 Cheap Web Site Hosting
| Rank | Hosting Company | Price per month | Domain Name | Disk Space | Transfer | Vote % | Website |
| 1 | InMotion | $ 4 | Free | 150 GB | 1500 GB | 23.68 | Visit |
| 2 | Hostgator | $4.95 | $ 15 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 21.03 | Visit |
| 3 | WebHostingPad | $ 3.96 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 10.89 | Visit |
| 4 | HostMonster | $ 4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 6.32 | Visit |
| 5 | Lunar Pages | $ 4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 5.08 | Visit |
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Top 5 Blog Hosting
| Rank | Hosting Company | Price per month | Domain Name | Disk Space | Transfer | Vote % | Website |
| 1 | Hostgator | $ 4 | Free | 150 GB | 1500 GB | 19.98 | Visit |
| 2 | Inmotion | $4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 13.89 | Visit |
| 3 | WebHostingPad | $ 3.96 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 9.69 | Visit |
| 4 | HostMonster | $ 4.95 | $ 15 | Unlimited | Unlimited | 8.68 | Visit |
| 5 | Lunar Pages | $ 4.95 | Free | Unlimited | Unlimited | 6.37 | Visit |
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