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January 5th, 2012 | 
Author: Choosing the right hosting is an important decision and one that shouldn’t be taken too lightly. There’s plenty of horror stories about regular and lengthy downtimes, terrible customer service and the like, but how do you find a hosting company that will give you what you need?
Firstly, you need to decide what you actually need. If you’ve got a small brochure site, you’re excused looking into the cheaper options. However if you’ve got large and complex ecommerce sites, you might be better off looking for dedicated servers. Below are some of the better web hosting companies we’ve found, in no particular order…
Uk2.net Web Hosting
Uk2.net offer a complete hosting service and include both Windows and Linux servers. They set themselves apart by including an impressive range of additional features, including their extremely popular site builder, the recipient of a nationwide marketing campaign. They aim to offer the best price service on all web hosting products with a guarantee that the low price does not mean a drop in quality or service level.
They also have a rather extensive support suite to take advantage of, should you run into any difficulties. With quick email response rates and helpful phone operators, the support alone makes it a decent option, although they don’t have any sort of live chat, which is a shame.
Heart Internet
Launched in 2004, Heart Internet have fast become one of the leading web hosting companies in the country. They have a similar mission statement as 1&1, they wish to provide a competitively priced service with absolutely no detrimental effect on service quality.
The basic package is extremely basic, perfect for the really small start up sites launching their first site. An upgrade to the next level offering will unlock some of the features you might expect from a hosting company.
The best thing about Heart Internet is the level of support they offer, much like 1&1. They have downloadable guides, fantastic online help centre and best of all, they have a live chat service. Live chat makes the difference because its fast, its free and you can, more often than not, get an instant answer to your problem
Creating Media – Green Web Hosting
There aren’t many green web hosting companies out there but we’ve found arguably the best. More and more people are turning to green web hosting to do their bit for the environment and hats off to them. The Creating Media dedicated hosting service relies solely on renewable energy and its estimated to save approximately 30000 tons of Co2 per year.
There is absolutely no sacrifice to uptime, in fact at 99% uptime performs better than most and isn’t a great deal more than your average hosting company.
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