Entry Level Hosting Plans | Entry-Level Hosting Plan Comparison |
Compare Entry-Level Web Hosting PlansWith over 4 million domains hosted on its 40,000 servers across the globe, 1&1 is the biggest web hosting provider in the world. Nipping at its heels are hostgator with 700,000 hosted domains, and bluehost with 350,000 hosted domains. These web hosting companies can best be characterized as the 900 pound gorillas of the hosting industry. With such a strong presence, these providers are not the fly-by-night companies that are so prevalent in this industry. They all maintain their own data centers and are heavily invested in the web hosting business. When you host with one of these companies, you can be assured that they will be around tomorrow. The following table provides a comparison chart of the entry level hosting plans offered by each hosting provider. The entry level plan is geared towards the individual webmaster or a small business that is starting to develop a presence on the web and is not in need of a full featured plan.
NOTES: For the Hostgator Hatchling plan, you pay $4.95 per month, if you decide to pay up-front for three years. You will pay $5.95/month, if you decide to pay up-front for 2 years. You will pay $6.95/month, if you decide to pay up-front for 1 year. If you decide to pay month-to-month, then the price is $8.95. See what others are saying about Hostgator: Terminology: FTP -- FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. Having multiple FTP accounts will allow you to give friends and employees their own FTP account. This will allow you to give them as little or as much access to your website as you choose. PHP -- PHP is a server side HTML embedded scripting language. It is utilized by web developers to optimize web pages and create more enhanced functionalities within a web page. CGI -- CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. CGI is one method by which a web server can obtain data from (or send data to) databases, documents, and other programs, and present that data to viewers via the web. More simply, a CGI script is a program intended to be run on the web. A CGI program can be written in any programming language, but Perl is one of the most popular. On our servers you will get a cgi-bin directory that your scripts should normally be uploaded to, however your CGI scripts will work both inside and outside of this directory. MySQL -- MySQL is the world's most popular open source database. Many forums and other database driven programs require MySQL to run. Ruby On Rails -- is an open-source web framework that's built for productivity. Here are some of the modules for ROR: rake Auto Responders -- You can setup your email addresses so when they receive mail they will automatically reply back with your message. Streaming Audio/Video -- Support for Windows Media, Quicktime, and Real Media player allowing you to run streaming audio and video. Disk Space -- The more disk space you have the more files, pages, emails, and more everything your account will be able to store on the host server. Bandwidth -- Bandwidth can be best described as gas for a car. If your website runs out of bandwidth nobody will be able to visit it. 1GB of bandwidth is equal to over 100,000 hits. The average account with uses less than 2 GB of bandwidth a month. Your bandwidth number used will reset back to zero on the first of every month.
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