Explanations on the 2 most common web hosting plans:

Shared hosting -means you are sharing the server with other people who also have their websites on the same server. This means you are may have limited space on the harddrive and/or bandwidth.
Dedicated server: Means you alone use the server but the web host are responsible to make sure the server is running and that it works.

Host (click on banner to visit each web host)	Shared hosting: Prices start from	Dedicated hosting: Prices start from	Fast support?	Comment
GATE	$4.98/month First 3 months only $1.66/month	$69/month	Average, around 8 hours to get a reply to a support ticket	Cheap but still good value: Unlimited Disk Space Unlimited Data Transfer Unlimited Mailboxes Unlimited Databases Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Yahoo!	$8.96/mo	N/A	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket.	Recommended! Free domain name Unlimited disk space Unlimited Data transfer
Liquid Web	$14.95/mo	$149/mo	Yes they answer to tickets within a few minutes	Recommended! Our favourite webhost because of the excellent support. Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
ApolloHosting	$6.95/mo	$99.95/mo	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket.	Allow PT sites on dedicated servers Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
One.com	$1.45/mo Cheapest!		Mediocre 24-48 hour for reply on ticket	Only one domain per account. Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
ServerPronto	N/A	$29.95/mo Cheapest!	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket	99.999% Uptime Guarantee Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
FastDomain	$5.95/mo	N/A	Mediocre 24-48 hour for reply on ticket	Allow unlimited domains Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Easy CGI	$7.96 / mo	$39.96/mo	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket	Shared hosting starting with: 3,500 GB Monthly Data Transfer 300 Gb Disk space Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
LunarPages	$6.95/mo	$99/mo	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket	Allow PT sites on dedicated servers Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
Omni Network	$5.95/mo	N/A	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket	UNLIMITED HostingSpace UNLIMITED Bandwidth UNLIMITED Domains Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
Just Host	$4.95/mo	$189.99/mo	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket	Allow PT sites on dedicated servers. UNlimited diskspace, unlimited bandwidth for shared hosting. Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
WebHostingPad	$3.96/mo	N/A	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket	UNLIMITED HostingSpace UNLIMITED Bandwidth UNLIMITED Domains
iPowerWeb	$3.98/mo	$129/mo	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket	Unlimited Domains even for shared hosting Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
PowWeb	$3.88/mo	N/A	Mediocre 24-48 hour for reply on ticket	30-Day Money-Back Guarantee Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
1&1	£1.99/mo	£82.24/mo	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket.	All prices in GBP (£) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
FatCow	$7.33/mo	N/A	OK! 2-48 hours for reply on ticket. Becoming more and more popular among our readers	Recommended! Unlimited Domains Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
HostMonster	$5.95/mo	N/A	Mediocre 24-48 hour for reply on ticket. Note: HostMonster don’t like PT sites and can close your account without notice.	UNLIMITED Hosting Space UNLIMITED Bandwidth UNLIMITED Domains Note: HostMonster don’t like PT sites and can close your account without notice. Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Host gator	$4.95/mo	$174.00/mo	Have improved their support tremendously. Live chat always answers within a few minutes.	Recommended! Unlimited domains for shared hosting. Fast servers and quick support. Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
ThePlanet	N/A	$89	Fast Normally get reply to ticket within a few hours	Only dedicated servers. One of the fastest and most secure web hosts out there. They also have a good protection against DoS attacks! Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Rackspace	N/A	No pricelist, only custom build dedicated servers	Fast Normally get reply to ticket within a few hours	Only dedicated servers, quite pricy but good support. Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
IPower	$3.98/mo	$129	Fast Normally get reply to ticket within a few hours	Unlimited domain on shared server Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
IX Webhosting	$4.95/mo	N/A	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket.	Unlimited GB of Storage Unlimited GB of Transfer Unlimited Domains Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
HostDime	$9/mo	$100	Average, around 24 hours to get a reply to ticket.	10 Domains for budget hosting Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
GoDaddy	$3.65/mo	$63.99/mo	Average	Note: Only 300 GB Transfer and 10 GB Space for budget hosting Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
JumpLaunch	$4.95/mo	$199.95/mo	Fast Normally get reply to ticket within a few hours	Unlimited GB of Storage Unlimited GB of Transfer Unlimited Domains Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
HostRocket	$4.99/mo	$99.95	Fast Normally get reply to ticket within a few hours	Unlimited bandwidth, 10 domains per account for shared hosting Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
ImHosted	$6.95/mo	N/A	Mediocre 24-48 hour for reply on ticket	Host unlimited websites/domains on your account.Live support requires of you to install ICQ and their website says it is only supported by (Windows 98/2000/Me/XP/Mac) NOT VISTA?! Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
StartLogic	$5.95/mo	N/A	Fast Normally get reply to ticket within a few hours	Unlimited GB of Storage Unlimited GB of Transfer Unlimited Domains Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
NetFirms	$4.45/mo	$49.95/mo Clustered servers	The support often ignores support tickets and if they answer expect 2 -4 days of waiting, before you get an reply.	They use a weird interface and no regular cpanel. Cannot import sql files and or even paste in sql. Lots of features you find in cpanel are not supported by this company. Stay away if you are not a computer genious, because you get little or no help from the support. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
YourSite	$2/mo	N/A	Mediocre 24-48 hour for reply on ticket	Only 50Mb storage and 5Gb monhtly traffic for budget shared hosting Worst deal! Rating: 0 out of 5 stars

NetFirms use their own control panel with very limited features. There are no fantastcico features and it took Netfirms years to allow Wordpress installs even.

There is no index protecion which means every folder on the server that doesn’t have an index file can be browsed by anyone unless you password protect it.

Logging in to the control panel is like gambling, sometimes you can and sometimes you cannot. The same goes for the email servers. If you automatically check send/receive every 5-10 minutes you should count on the mail server not responding at least once per hour. You will get error messages that your username/password is wrong (even when they aren’t) or that the server timed out.

Netfirms seems to have some serious issues with their servers in general. Count on a lot downtime on a daily basis when you websites are not accessible to you nor the public.

At least once per day the web servers seem to be offline for one hour or more, this is specially painful if you are usig database driven websites. Their database server cannot handle a lot of traffic and if a database gets more than 50000 request your server will crash.

You cannot name your own databases so if you are moving from another webhost then prepare to rewrite all config files for all your databases.

The support is anything but great. Up to 6 days to get an answer on a simple support ticket. The staff seem to like to just copy and paste an answer from the FAQ and that is even if the FAQ doesn’t answer your question or solve your problem. We strongly recommend you stay away from NetFirms.

BuyDomain

The BuyDomain support staff take 2-6 days to answer a support ticket no matter how urgent the matter is. Unfortunately the staff doesn’t really read what you write and they copy and paste randomly from their FAQ regardless to whether that answers your inquiry or not.
Login problems are common at BuyDomain and their system requires of you to have your customer number ready. If you don’t have your customer number you need to fill out your street address to retrieve it. This should not have been a problem if it wasn’t for the fact that their system does not recognize the street address and give you an error and the email with the customer number never shows.

The only thing to do then is to write an email to BuyDomain security department and request that they send the customer number to a different email address. This takes a few days. If the email still doesn’t show up you will have to repeat the procedure over and over again and hope that it finally comes through.
The BuyDomain staff consistently refuse to help you manually no matter if you write or call. They always refer to their system and say it should work even when it doesn’t.
During our test we correspondence with BuyDomain for 4 months to try and retrieve our customer number. We had to ask the security department to change our email address 6 times and still we did not get the information. Since the support staff took their average 4 days to respond it means over 30 emails sent back and forth
It wasn’t until we called a lawyer and had him send BuyDomain a letter that we actually got some help. Not that we by then had uploaded both photo ID and utility bill 3 times to BuyDomain to verify our identities.
We strongly recommend to stay away from BuyDomain.com
Note: BuyDomain is not to be confused with BuyDomains ..note the “S” at the end.