Pros & Cons
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- Excellent dedicated hosting plans
- Budget-friendly shared hosting options
- Linux and Windows server options for all hosting tiers
- Helpful customer service
- Almost all plans let you select a server location
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- Limited email accounts with some plans
- Skimpy shared hosting resource caps
- Steep renewal pricing
AccuWeb Hosting Specs
| 24/7 Customer Support | |
| Cloud Hosting | |
| Dedicated Hosting | |
| Linux Servers | |
| Linux Servers - Cloud | |
| Maximum RAM - Dedicated | 16 |
| Maximum RAM - VPS | 8 |
| Maximum Storage - Cloud | 25GB |
| Maximum Storage - Dedicated | 16 |
| Maximum Storage - VPS | 100 |
| Reseller Hosting | |
| Shared Hosting | |
| SSL Certificate Included | |
| Unlimited Email | |
| VPS Hosting | |
| Windows Hosting - Cloud | |
| Windows Servers | |
| WordPress Hosting |
The web hosting category is vast and diverse, with numerous services competing for your trust and business. Worthy choices abound, and AccuWeb Hosting ranks among the best, thanks to its robust and flexible hosting plans. I find AccuWeb Hosting's dedicated hosting packages to be very well-rounded, striking a great balance between price, specs, and features. Factor in top-notch customer service, and AccuWeb earns our Editors' Choice award. It's an excellent web host with plenty of appeal for small and mid-sized businesses that expect to grow over time.
Shared Hosting: A Budget-Friendly Way to Build a Site
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 makes it to 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 impacted. 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.
(Credit: AccuWeb/PCMag)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, no discount for annual signups), 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 or $3.49 per month with an annual subscription), 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 or $5.99 per month with an annual plan) 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 or $7.99 per month with an annual plan) 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. Note that these plans lack discounts for long-term signups.
AccuWeb lets you choose a plan on a quarterly, annual, or three-year basis, with 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, or opt for other tiers, including dedicated and VPS.
These are quality shared hosting plans with competitive rates, but I find that HostArmada's shared hosting delivers better cloud architecture and a premium security suite, including malware removal, even on its cheapest entry-level plan. HostArmada offers more generous hardware allocation (starting at two CPU cores and 2GB of RAM) and unlimited email accounts, ultimately edging out AccuWeb.
VPS Hosting: More Power for Your Dollar
If your business requires a website with more power than shared hosting can provide, a virtual private server (VPS) hosting solution is the ideal choice. Sites built on VPS servers have increased system resources compared with shared hosting, so your site is more likely to survive a link going viral. You're still renting a part of a shared server, but your site is more isolated from its server-mates. If shared hosting stablemates are like roommates, sites on the same VPS server are more like tenants living in their own apartments in the same apartment building.
(Credit: AccuWeb/PCmag)AccuWeb Hosting has multiple wallet-friendly Linux- or Windows-based VPS plans for webmasters to consider, ranging from Linux VPS Edge (starting at $4.95 per month, or $59.40 per year) to the high-end Windows VPS Mellite (starting at $79.99 per month, or $959.88 per year). The Edge plan includes 30GB of storage, 4GB of RAM, and 250GB of monthly data transfers, while the Mellite package ups the specs with 200GB of storage, 16GB of RAM, and 2.5TB of monthly data transfers. You can create unlimited email accounts with either Linux or Windows VPS plans, giving you room to grow.
These are VPS plans that will serve your site well, but Hostwinds' many flexible and powerful packages help the web host retain its Editors' Choice crown. For example, its unmanaged Linux VPS plans start at $4.99 per month (for 1GB of RAM, 30GB of disk space, 1TB monthly data transfers, and unlimited email) and max out at $404.94 per month (for an absolutely stacked package that includes 96GB of RAM, 750GB of disk space, 9TB monthly data transfers, and unlimited email).
Dedicated Hosting: Full Server Resources at Your Disposal
Dedicated hosting is for webmasters who are serious about their web hosting. With dedicated hosting, your website gets an entire server to itself. What does that mean? A ridiculous amount of system resources can handle large amounts of traffic. To continue the living-arrangements metaphor, dedicated web hosting services are akin to living in your own single-family home—and, depending on the plan you subscribe to, it might be a mansion.
AccuWeb Hosting offers six excellent plans for configurable, Linux- or Windows-powered dedicated hosting servers (Classic, Infrastructure, Advanced, Game, Storage, and High-Availability), with sub-tiers within each category. The most basic plan is the $131-per-month package that includes two 480GB SSD chips, 32GB of RAM, and 30TB of monthly data transfers. As with the VPS plans, AccuWeb's dedicated hosting plans allow you to create unlimited email accounts, which is ideal for an expanding staff.
(Credit: AccuWeb/PCMag)On the high end, the "entry level" High-Availability server (starting at a hefty $565 per month) comes with 256GB of memory, two 6.4TB NVMe SSDs, and 100TB of monthly data transfers. Thanks to its many high-spec, powerful servers, AccuWeb reigns as the Editors' Choice pick for dedicated hosting.
WordPress Hosting: Leveraging the Popular CMS
Businesses considering building a site using WordPress will appreciate how AccuWeb's managed WordPress hosting provides your site with the white-glove treatment. This includes a preinstalled content management system, automatic updates, and multilayer DDoS protection.
WordPress Basic (starting at $2.95 per month or $3.49 per month with an annual plan) includes 25GB of storage, 500GB of monthly data transfer, 1GB of RAM, and 25 email accounts. The WordPress Startup plan (starting at $4.99 per month or $3.49 per month with an annual plan) ups the specs to 50GB of storage, 1TB of monthly data transfers, 2GB of RAM, and 150 email addresses. The WordPress Professional plan (starting at $8.99 or $5.99 per month with an annual plan) has 75GB of storage, 3GB of RAM, 2TB of monthly data transfers, and 500 email accounts. The top-tier WordPress Advanced plan (starting at $10.99 per month or $7.99 per month with an annual plan) builds on the Professional plan with 100GB of storage, 4GB of RAM, 3TB of monthly data transfers, and 1,000 email accounts.
Unusual for the category, AccuWeb has VPS-based WordPress hosting. The plans start at $31.99 per month for 50GB of storage, 750GB of monthly data transfers, 4GB of RAM, and unlimited email addresses. All the AccuWeb WordPress packages include one-click installation, Google Apps integration, and free daily backups.
AccuWeb's WordPress offerings give you the tools to build a strong online presence, but Bluehost remains the Editors' Choice for small business WordPress plans. Its three packages begin with the entry-level Starter package ($15.99 per month), which includes 10GB of storage and unlimited monthly data transfers. On the high end, eCommerce Essential (starting at $32.99 per month) includes 100GB of storage and unlimited monthly data transfers. However, what sets Bluehost apart from AccuWeb is its excellent Bluehost WonderSuite Website Builder. It's a tool that combines the simplicity of a website builder with the full capabilities of WordPress, making site creation a breeze.
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For more robust WordPress services, WP Engine (the Editors' Choice winner for enterprise-class WordPress hosting) excels by providing servers for larger, more resource-hungry WordPress projects. It has one prefab plan, Essential (starting at $30 per month), which comes with 10GB of storage and 75GB of monthly data transfers. It scales up to 50GB of storage and 550GB of monthly data transfers, and includes real-time WordPress threat defense, an automated migration plug-in, and a content delivery network (CDN) for fast page load times. You can call WP Engine for a custom build if your website needs more power.
If you're new to WordPress, take a few minutes to get up to speed with our piece on how to get started with WordPress hosting.
Reseller Hosting: Starting a Hosting Business
If you're looking to get into the web hosting business for yourself, but you don't want to deal with managing servers and other infrastructure matters, check out AccuWeb's Linux- or Windows-based reseller hosting packages. With reseller hosting, you rent server space from an established player and resell it to your own customers.
AccuWeb's plans, starting at $11.99 per month, have unlimited email, 30GB of storage, and 100GB of monthly data transfers. AccuWeb also lets you apply your own branding to the servers you rent to others, and it supplies 24/7 tech support, too.
Competitor Hostwinds goes the extra mile with stacked specs in a variety of reseller plans (starting at $4.54 per month) that include unlimited email, disk space, and monthly data transfers. As a result, Hostwinds remains the Editors' Choice pick for reseller hosting.
Cloud Hosting: Multi-Server Power
Cloud hosting is a form of web hosting that allows your site to pull resources from multiple servers, rather than just one, as with traditional hosting. Cloud hosting's use of multiple servers offers advantages over traditional hosting. For example, if your website experiences a sudden traffic spike, it can pull resources from another server to prevent slow page loads or, worse, the site going down. Additionally, cloud hosting enables you to scale resources up or down as needed, making it incredibly simple.
AccuWeb Hosting offers general-purpose Linux cloud hosting (starting at $7.99 per month for 30GB of storage, 1GB of RAM, and 500GB of monthly data transfer) and Windows Cloud Hosting (starting at $19.99 per month for the same spec). For more granular options, you can also choose CPU-optimized, memory-optimized, and storage-optimized cloud configurations.
(Credit: AccuWeb/PCMag)By comparison, DreamHost has excellent pay-as-you-go packages that start at $0.0075 per hour (capping at $4.50 per month) for 512MB of RAM, 80GB of SSD storage, and unlimited monthly data transfers. DreamHost tops out at $0.16 per hour (or up to $96 per month) for 16GB of RAM, an 8-vCore processor, and the aforementioned 80GB of SSD storage. As a result, DreamHost is our co-Editors' Choice winner for cloud hosting services. That's right: co-Editors' Choice. DreamHost is the reigning champion for small business cloud hosting, while Ionos holds the lead for enterprise-level cloud hosting.
Building a Website
Creating an AccuWeb Hosting account is a straightforward process. After signing up for a plan, I received welcome emails and a note that it could take up to 48 hours for AccuWeb Hosting to set up the account. Fortunately, I didn't have to wait two days; the URL was up and running in roughly an hour.
I appreciate AccuWeb Hosting's custom cPanel back-end interface, as it's far easier to read and navigate than the traditional cPanel. I used it to access the Softaculous software library and to install WordPress as the content management system. We're pretty familiar with WordPress, so creating posts and pages and applying an attractive theme was a breeze. In fact, even if you aren't familiar with WordPress, it should be simple to use. There is also non-WordPress website-building software, including Joomla and RVsitebuilder.
For more on getting started online, read our tips on how to create a website. You might also want to check out our story on how to register a domain name for your website.
E-Commerce and Security Options
As part of my testing, I used Magento to create an online store on AccuWeb. It lets me quickly create an attractive e-commerce shop in just a few minutes, with most of the time spent dragging and dropping website elements. I appreciate that Magento offers the flexibility to host multiple storefronts and integrate eBay accounts.
AccuWeb Hosting gives you plenty of options for safeguarding your website from those who would do harm. It includes a basic Let's Encrypt SSL certificate with its cPanel plans, but you can also opt for a premium 256-bit dedicated SSL certificate starting at $49 per year. Multi-domain and Wildcard SSL certificates ($75 and $175 per year, respectively) are also available. Advanced incoming spam filter security via SpamExperts costs $2.63 per month and protects one domain and up to 100 mailboxes. If you're serious about your site's security, consider exploring all of these options.
Customer Service and Uptime
Need to get someone on the horn in a pinch? AccuWeb provides both web chat and Monday-Saturday telephone customer support. When you ask a question via web chat, AccuWeb Hosting serves up links to a knowledge database. When I asked about the difference between shared and WordPress hosting, AccuWeb provided satisfactory answers. If the knowledge base doesn't help, you can talk with a representative via web chat. The representative I spoke with replied to our questions within a minute.
I also called telephone support with the same question. The rep there gave us a satisfactory answer, too. I was delighted with the help provided by AccuWeb Hosting's representatives. It was easily one of the best customer service teams we've encountered in the web hosting space.
You can build a world-class website, but it won't mean much if it goes down regularly. Like GoDaddy, AccuWeb comes with a 99.9% uptime guarantee, which is reassuring. If, for some reason, you're not satisfied, AccuWeb offers a 30-day money-back guarantee on shared web hosting plans. VPS plans carry a much shorter 7-day money-back window, and dedicated servers are not covered by the refund policy.
Final Thoughts
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AccuWeb Hosting
AccuWeb Hosting provides a range of rich, Windows-based server options and helpful customer service, but its dedicated plans are where this web host truly excels.