The current global hosting market size is estimated at around $12.3 billion and will grow at an expected rate of 26% over the next 4 years. Regardless of the kind of website you have, a quality web hosting service is always required to make your website efficiently visible on the Internet. Without high quality web hosting, your ability to run a perfect website is seriously hindered. There are number of companies in the market providing services pertaining to website hosting.

Now, which are the companies providing the best hosting services? That is a tough question to answer but there are certainly some we can shortlist based on various attributes like price, usability, area of focus, customer support and scalability. Here is a list of top 40 best web hosting services for blogs and websites. Read more…

Downtime is no longer considered a good thing. Years ago it was a word that meant relaxing, resting, catching your breath, but today in the world of blogs and websites downtime is the worst possible thing that can happen. In March of this year Amazon went down for 20 minutes or so. Those 20 minutes cost the online retail store over $3.5 million.

So, it is a big challenge for every web developer about what should be emphasized. That’s why ‘how to monitor website’ is an ongoing question so we’ve put together a list of our top 30 tools to monitor your website’s uptime and its downtime history. We’ve included paid as well as free, yes free tools on our list and even though it’s fairly comprehensive it is by no means definitive. Read more…

Every day, a huge amount of data is being created and shared by companies online. With this growing amount of data comes the need for storage space and a platform that can handle big data analysis. Web hosting companies are at the forefront of providing data storage solutions. The most innovative of these hosting companies have also addressed the need for big data processing and analytics.

Due to growing big data needs that companies experience today, the web hosting industry has evolved to become more robust. Partnerships with software vendors, for instance, provide customers with additional benefits when using a host service. Read more…

If you happen to be a web developer running multiple websites on a dedicated or VPS servers, then you should consider using a dedicated control panel for better web server management. This also applies to bloggers that run several blogs and online portfolios simultaneously. A customizable, flexible and dedicated control panel helps to fulfil bloggers’ various needs, allowing them to manage multiple servers from one control panel, easily and effectively.

Here we’ve gathered 15 powerful and reliable web hosting control panels that are specifically designed for Internet service providers and IT professionals. Do let us know in the comments box below if we’ve missed any worth-sharing hosting control panels. Read more…

If you are interested to start a blog, one of the most common questions that will come to your mind is how to decide which blog host is the best for you? But before that, you should define your goals for your blog then research the various blog hosts and blogging platforms to determine the one that best suits your needs. Although it makes sense to start with the basics, but it will be good to make sure that the host you choose today will scale to serve the blog you want to build in the future. Here you’ll be given 8 important tips to choosing a blog host and we hope that you will find them useful.

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