After I realize how my hosting, LunarPages, increased its storage and bandwidth limit to “unlimited”, I was wondering how tough the competition must have been on the hosting service world.
I stumbled across a web hosting search site, named webhostingsearch.com 
. This site is probably THE Google of Web Hosting. It’s so easy to search and find the best hosting solution for you. Back when I was searching for the best hosting in 2001, I searched for the Top 10 web hosting and started from there. If only I knew this site exists back then, I could probably save more time in finding my best host.
How to Search for the hosting that suits you
First of all, select the hosting plan category:
Afterwards, select the features that you need by ticking on several options such as:
- Minimum storage capacity for your needs.
- Minimum bandwidth that you need per month.
- Preferred location of the server (currently North America and Europe).
- Features of the hosting plan (PHP, Databases, Blogging platform required, etc).
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What I like best, however, is the “results bar” at the bottom of the screen. As you tick and choose your hosting features and requirements, the results are updated live. You can also click on the “Show Matches Now” to see the results. Nifty.
Looking for unlimited storage & bandwidth? Not that many, it seems
If you click on the show results button, your search results will be presented in a table-like manner:
You can also sort the results by clicking on the column headers. This way, it’s much easier to sort them based on the cheapest monthly price, for example. Of course, cheapest doesn’t mean the best and vice versa
You can also click on the “Review” link to see the summary of the Host, along with some reviews and specifications on the hosting plan that you searched for. Or simply click on the Package link and you’ll be redirected to the host’s package page. Quick and easy.
If you just want to find the list of cheap web hosting without going through the tick lists and searches, you can always go straight to the cheap web hosting list. It’s the quickest way to find your best hosting package.
Apart from the quick cheap web hosting shortcut, there are also other quick lists of WordPress hosting, ECommerce hosting, Reseller hosting, VPS (Virtual Private Server) hosting, and Dedicated server hosting on the site.
Searching for a web hosting can never be easier, thanks to WebHostingSearch.com!
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I did a review on this site a while back as well. They are really the google for webhosting.
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It’s sure a great tool, and Lunarpages is in the top 10!
Btw, I wanted to ask you guys, unlimited hosting is really unlimited? Cause I’ve heard rumors that these hosting companies count on that you don’t use that much space and bandwitch, but what if you do? Are there any instances where an unlimited server crashes? Have you ever happened it to you?
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That site is good but for lunarpages offering unlimited use, I would like to say that’s just for new hosting users, coz you know unlimit is just a word, no truth,
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Yeah, that’s why I asked. Cause there are differences between unlimited and unlimited
Maybe Michael can provide some information about it, he hit the buzz frontpage once and there were no server crash or something…
But I wonder what happens if he’d hit Digg…
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Mike
Good find…. Need to check out and find which plans are available…
@Syed: Thanks for coming, Syed. That post must be some time ago because I subscribed to your blog and missed it
The unlimited is unfortunately only to those who take the Fall special offer from Lunarpages
I emailed them to upgrade my account and that’s the reply. Well mine is like 1.5 TB of space and 15 TB of bandwidth, which is pretty much “unlimited”
Well there was a “server crash” back then when I got 15,000 traffic from StumbleUpon in 2 days span time lol. I was moved to a temporary server because of that! Well I was using 66% of the CPU on that server lol
I also found out that I got around the same traffic a couple of days ago, but this time nothing happens. It’s because I’ve installed WP-SuperCache, I’m sure
I’d suggest that you do the same (or at least read why you need to install caching on your blog at some point)
It seems useful to search for specific features that you need, but most hosting companies provide similar packages anyway.
You can’t beat a real recommendation or plenty of genuine user reviews when choosing hosting!
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You’re not kidding that is the Google of hosting! I never knew this site existed, so I am going to spend some more time there. I’ve been interested in VPS, so this comes at a good time.
@Richard: Well some hosting provide different packages (although they may look similar at first). But yeah, a review from a friend or someone you trust is always preferred better than professional reviews.
@VMOptions: Good luck! I may have to go to that path one day. At the moment I have no specific recommendation, although I might go with LunarPages again. We’ll see.
Sorry to sound like a babe in the woods, but just what do you refer to as Lunar Pages?
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Hi Eva, if you click on the LunarPages link on the post, you’ll know what it is
Mike, be careful with that kind of answer, if someone clicks on the link and still has no idea, than you’ll be considered an assh*** who doesn’t even want to help his readers
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good article
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Nice info thx for sharing boss
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