Best Web Hosting Companies: 2020

Here’s our rankings for the the best web hosting companies of 2023! This has definitely been a year of change for hosting companies, with several new companies making it into our top ten.

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Who’s our #1 Pick this year?

What has provoked these drastic changes? Well, there are two reasons:

  1. Improvements in Cloud Hosting – Cloud hosting was all the rage a couple years ago, but it was also expensive and unreliable. Thankfully the price and reliability have improved to a point where most hosting companies offer at least some kind of cloud-hybrid hosting plan.
  2. VPS Improvements – This is not unrelated to the improved popularity of cloud hosting. VPS hosting (or ‘virtual private server’) has grown from a cheap imitation of dedicated hosting to a flexible, reliable hosting solution that bridges the gap between small traffic personal blogs and gigantic company websites.
#:Name:Customer Rating:Uptime:Ease:
1. A Small Orange5.0/5.05.0/5.04.9/4.9
2.Godaddy4.75/5.05.0/5.05.0/5.0
3.Hostmetro4.9/5.04.9/5.04.9/5.0
4.DigitalOcean5.0/5.04.75/5.04.8/.5.0
5.Dreamhost4.8/5.04.8/5.04.9/5.0
6.Bluehost4.75/5.04.9/5.04.8/5.0
7.Fatcow4.7/5.04.75/5.04.95/5.0
8.Hostgator4.65/5.04.75/5.04.75/5.0
9.1and14.5/5.04.8/5.04.5/5.0

Surprises from our Rankings:

While ‘A Small Orange’ topping our rankings isn’t that surprising (it frequently tops lists ranking hosting companies), the second place finish of Godaddy is very surprising. The polarizing company has a lot of detractors. However in the past couple of years Godaddy has attempted to reinvent its public image. Gone are the risque ‘banned’ superbowl commercials and instead Godaddy is focusing on the small business owner. Reliability and ease of use are the new Godaddy goals.

What’s interesting is that our up-time monitoring tools found Godaddy to be the most reliable web host of them all. While our sample size of a few websites is too small to be a truly scientific measurement, it does indicate that Godaddy has vastly improved their hosting services. That, and you can they also have plenty of discounts and sales to make it more affordable (Click here to make sure you get a valid coupon code that works for you).

Here’s a sweet rundown of GoDaddy’s Hosting Services:

Frontpage Hosting Guide

When Your Company Wants To Use Outdated Software

Frontpage officially stopped being supported by Microsoft in 2007, but you wouldn’t know it by looking at today’s corporate culture. There are tens of thousands of small businesses that still use Microsoft Frontpage for their web development/design needs.

Even though it’s archaic, there’s likely nothing you can do about it. Your company uses Frontpage, and the employees are only trained on using it. So what can you do?

The demand for Frontpage is large enough that several hosts still carry extensions on their servers to help you support Frontpage. These extensions are server side, and they are absolutely required for Frontpage to work at all.

The Following Companies Still Actively Carry Extensions:

The list is dwindling by the year, but you can still find quite a few web hosting companies willing to support Microsoft Frontpage. The small business market is a large and profitable sector of the market for hosting companies, so we imagine that they will continue offering services until it’s no longer profitable. Even though you aren’t in a situation where you have a lot of choice on which hosting company you can use, you can still try to save some money by taking a look at CouponLynx – online promo codes that work!. They will likely have coupons for the above companies (especially GoDaddy).

Even then, we’re sure someone out there will start their own hosting company and add Frontpage extension support, just so that they can get those customers that refuse to move onto newer services.

These companies, for sure, do not support Frontpage anymore:

  • Inmotion
  • Bluehost
  • Hostnine
  • Mediatemple
  • Arvixe
  • Namecheap