HostGator is one of the the oldest and largest and most reliable web hosting companies around. It was founded in 2002 and it boasts of hosting over 4,000,000 domains on its servers. Hostgator provides shared web hosting, VPS hosting, reseller hosting and dedicated servers. They are surely the largest as well as the most reliable shared web hosting provider and they give their best for quality and customer satisfaction at an affordable price.

Cirtex Hosting was founded in early 2003 and has been providing reliable and affordable web hosting solutions through all these years. They are one of the few web hosting companies that even allow video sharing sites as well as adult websites on their shared hosting plans. Cirtex Hosting provide unlimited bandwidth in all their plans but the RAID protected hosting space differs as per the various plans. They also provide 99.9% uptime and 30 days money back guarantee.

Arvixe web hosting was founded in San Luis Obispo, CA in 2003 and they are known for their reliable yet affordable web hosting plans. They deal in shared web hosting (including linux and ASP.NET hosting), business and reseller hosting, e-commerce and dedicated servers. They also allow video sharing software hosting and social network hosting even on their shared hosting plans.

InMotion Hosting was established in 2001 and they provide shared web hosting, VPS hosting as well as dedicated servers. They have a loyal customer base and are known for their quality yet affordable hosting. They have also received dozens of web hosting awards for their quality web hosting, affordable prices, great features and awesome support.

GreenGeeks is a quality green web hosting company which is wind powered and provides unlimited web space and data transfer at an affordable price. They are also known for their quality North American support and free site migration. They are a BBB (Better Business Bureau) accredited company based in Los Angeles and have won several awards for their quality hosting.

1and1 is a domain registrar as well as a web hosting company which was established in 1988 as a marketing company. They at first started off as a German company in marketing only and then gradually developed into a global company and branching out several other services such as domain registration, web hosting and email solutions. 1and1 provides shared web hosting, VPS as well as dedicated servers at an affordable price.

Godaddy is the world’s largest domain registrar and one of the largest web hosting companies established in 1997. They are more popular for their domain registration but are also known for their shared web hosting, SSL Certificates, VPS and dedicated servers. They are a Better Business Bureau accredited company and is the world’s No. 1 ICANN-accredited domain name registrar for .COM, .NET, .ORG, .INFO, .BIZ and .US domain extensions.

IX Web Hosting was established more than a decade ago in 1999 which has got both the data centers and call centers in the United States. They are primarily known for their cheap and affordable web hosting plans and for their good customer support. IX Web Hosting has also won several web hosting awards throughout the last decade for their quality hosting and non-outsourced customer support.

iPage web hosting was established more than a decade ago in 1998 and they have grown into one of the most popular and most reliable yet cheap web hosting providers in the last decade. They boast of hosting more than 1 million websites on their hosting platform. They are also one of the biggest promoters of green hosting and all their servers, offices and data centers are 100% wind powered.

HostMonster is owned by the same owners who own BlueHost and most of their features are also similar. But many people say that the prices and offers in HostMonster are sometimes better than BlueHost. They were established a lot later than Bluehost but they also boast of hosting over 600,000 domains as of now.