Choosing the Right Web Host

When you first decided that you needed a website — and therefore, a web hosting provider — you probably did what most of us do: You went to your favorite search engine, typed in some variation on "web hosting" or "website host" and then sorted through the results that followed.

The problem is, how to make the right choice in web hosting providers when there are so many to choose from? California-based news website "Best Syndication" reports that there are now "more than a staggering 50,000 web hosting providers" competing for your business. (Read "Web Hosting Providers Rule The Web" here.) And anybody who's ever searched Google or Yahoo for hosting services can tell this firsthand.

Now each and every week it is estimated more than 50,000 websites are launched and need to be hosted somewhere online. This figure continues to grow and grow.

In fact the current monthly count for the number of searches at Yahoo for the term 'web hosting' is a whopping 2,149,851. That's right, over 2 million!

Also just recently it was reported that the popularity of blogs was seeing tens of thousands of new blogs launched each and every day. While many of these are hosted freely, the more serious bloggers each require an account with a reliable web hosting provider. ...

By far the most popular top level domain is the .com There are currently over an estimated 40 million of these registered.

The .com top level domain currently holds over an estimated 70 percent of the domain name marketplace. The .net top level domain currently holds just over an estimated 10 percent of the domain name marketplace.

The good news for web hosting and domain name customers is that incredible deals have become available as competition increases among web hosting providers.

So how to choose, then? Considering just how competitive the web hosting industry has become, ipower is particularly proud to be among the most long-lived of all these companies. We just recently celebrated our tenth year of web hosting, and we've actually been in business since 1992 — try to find a competitor who's been around that long.

But what does the average consumer care if ipower has been around longer than our competitors? How does that translate into value? For one thing, since we specialize in partnering with small businesses to provide all their online needs, it's a source of comfort to know that the partner you trust has an almost two-decades-long track record of stability. It's also a source of comfort to realize that any company, in any industry (and especially a technology-based industry) must have a history of innovation to be able to survive in such a notoriously competitive market for so long, while so many other start-ups have fallen by the wayside.

Most of all, though, you can be confident that ipower's history of award-winning services couldn't have been achieved without making a lot of customers happy. Our plans and prices speak for themselves. We've also recently entirely rebranded our hosting plans to make the process of choosing the right plan even more easy for our valued customers, including simplifying our plans, adjusting prices and eliminating set-up fees.

So, if you're an ipower customer, you can rest easy knowing that you've made the right choice, however difficult that decision may have been. And if you're not yet a customer, now is the perfect time to make your choice: Give Aplus.Net a try and see why we lead today's web hosting industry. Click here to check out our award-winning services now.

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