Bluehost vs. Superb Internet
There are thousands of possible choices when it comes to choosing a suitable web host. We try to bring you the most outstanding options for your small business website. On this comparison we have brought together two of the top rated hosting companies in the industry.
Bluehost is a long-term veteran of the web hosting with roots dating back to 1996. They have now host millions of websites and still grow at a rate of about 20,000 per month.
Superb Internet (Superb.net) also started in 1996. Since then they have expanded into all realms of web hosting including VPS, dedicated, managed, and colocation.
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We make a detailed analysis of both of these web hosting veterans and give you our results below.
Pricing
Bluehost has found that just one single hosting option works best, and it goes for just $5.95 per month. Clients can buy up to a “Pro” plan for $19.95 a month that comes with attractive extras like SSL certificates, a dedicated IP address, site backup, and more CPU resources.
Superb offers comparable shared-server hosting that starts at $4.99 for GridLite, $6.99 for GridPro, and $14.99 for GridMax. VPS plans are very affordable, starting at just $25 per month. And Dedicated plans start at $59 up to $700 depending on the equipment used.
Products and Services
Bluehost offers a startup $75 credit to use with Google Adwords for all clients. They also offer a 99.9% uptime guarantee, and an anytime money back guarantee.
Superb’s mission is to help business websites grow. They do offer a 100% uptime guarantee and 100% money back if clients are not fully satisfied in the first 30 days. And in addition, they provide a long list of professional services such as marketing, managed support, database management, SEO, and more.
Web Hosting Features
The Bluehost plan comes packed full of features that are suitable for most any small to medium business website including unlimited bandwidth, disk space, email accounts, and hosted domains. Clients can use a wide variety of supported scripting languages and plugins. Clients can utilize multi-media files. Ecommerce solutions are also provided with a choice of shopping carts.
Only the “GridMax” plan comes with matching unlimited features. Other plans come with unlimited bandwidth, and suitable allocations of disk space, email accounts and hosted domains, but are still limited. Popular scripting languages are supported, as are a choice of eCommerce shopping carts.
Customer Service
Bluehost offers complete 24 hour customer technical support via phone, chat, and email. They also provide a very user-friendly online knowledgebase filled with articles, tutorials, and wizards.
Superb also offers a 24 hour support line via phone, chat, and online ticket submission. Their online knowledgebase is not as user-friendly as Bluehost, but does offer a suitable number of helpful articles.
Recommendations
With a complete range of scalable hosting options from shared, VPS, Dedicated, and managed hosting, along with a great list of professional website extra services, our recommendation goes to Superb Internet web hosting. We feel Superb offers an absolute total and complete range of hosting options for any size business website.
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