Reliable Web Hosting
What is the most important feature any hosting provider can offer? In our opinion, the answer is reliability. Availability of your web site is vital for numerous reasons.
- Reputation: To many customers the first impression they will get of your company depends on your website. If your website is down, or not functioning what will they think?
- Success: Many search engines will penalize sites that are not working. If you want to get a top 10 position in the search engines then you better make sure your web site is available.
There are many tools for evaluating web site reliability. In an effort to monitor the availability of web sites we use SiteUptime to monitor several basic wordpress sites every 5 minutes. Here is a breakdown of our current top 3 for hosts we are currently monitoring.
| Web Host provider | Pricing and Features | Availability April 2008 | Availability 2008 YTD |
| lunarpages | $6.95/month Free Domain Unlimited Add-on Domains |
99.99% | 99.97% |
| Hostgator | $7.95/month Unlimited Add-on Domains |
100% | 99.97% |
| bluehost | $6.95/month Free Domain Unlimited Add-on Domains |
99.47% | 99.66% |
Good luck with your search for reliable web host.
