If you’re not hip to shared hosting, here is a brief rundown. Shared hosting places your website on a server with other sites, resulting in pages that literally share system resources. This roommate environment lowers hosting costs, allowing you to enjoy affordable web hosting plans. You get what you pay for, however. Your site might slow to a crawl if one of those roommate sites gets on the front page of Reddit. And if your site receives a massive traffic spike, you might find it throttled to prevent your roomie sites from being negatively impact. Still, shared hosting is worth considering, especially if you don’t expect your website to receive a large amount of traffic. Just carefully eyeball the plans’ specs, because some are rather skimpy.
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AccuWeb has several Linux- or Windows-based shared server plans, including budget-friendly packages that tick nearly all the boxes you could want for low-cost web hosting. On the Linux front, starting with the aptly named Budget plan (starting at $1.99 per month), you get a modest 10GB of storage, 25GB of monthly data transfers, 500MB of RAM, and 25 email accounts. Next up is GoSolo (starting at $7.99 per month), which provides your site with 50GB of storage, 750GB of monthly data transfers, 1GB of RAM, and 150 email accounts. The Premium plan (starting at $8.99 per month and renewing at $14.99 per month) comes with 75GB of storage, 1TB of monthly data transfers, 1.5GB of RAM, and support for up to 500 email accounts. That’s not too shabby for cheap hosting. Need more muscle? Enterprise Pro (starting at $10.99 per month and renewing at $18.99 per month) is AccuWeb’s highest-tier shared plan, with 100GB of storage, 1.5TB of monthly data transfers, 2GB of RAM, and 1,000 email accounts.
Do you need a Windows server as the foundation of your website? AccuWeb’s Windows plans start at $3.49 per month ($6.99 per month upon renewal). With that Beginner tier, you get 10GB of storage, a skimpy 250MB of RAM, 500GB of monthly data transfers, and 150 email accounts. The Professional plan (starting at $8.99 per month, renewing at $17.99 per month) builds upon Beginner with 30GB of storage, 500MB of RAM, 1TB of monthly data transfers, and 150 email accounts. AccuWeb’s most expensive shared package is Turbo, which costs $13.99 per month and renews at $27.99 per month. With this tier, you get 50GB of storage, 1.5TB of monthly data transfers, 750MB of RAM, and 150 email accounts.
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AccuWeb lets you choose a plan on a quarterly, annual, and three-year basis, which provides larger discounts the longer you subscribe. And, in an unusual move, AccuWeb allows you to select a server location from many major international cities, including Denver, Johannesburg, London, and Mumbai. This is a vital option if you want a server center near your visitors to shorten the time it takes for data to reach your audience. AccuWeb’s server selection option isn’t limited to shared servers; you can choose the one closest to your clients or customers, using various other tiers, including dedicated and VPS.
Overall, these are quality shared hosting plans with competitive rates, but HostGator, the category’s Editors’ Choice winner, edges out AccuWeb in this category. HostGator’s shared packages all include unlimited monthly data transfers and email addresses.
