In the past, the answer is to hire a professional web designer to design the website, and a professional web developer to code the site. Not only it’s typically an expensive process, but also complicated and time-consuming. 

Fortunately, today we live in an easier time with the availability of various website builders using the WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get) philosophy. Today, we can create a beautiful website with just the cliks of your mouse.

In the past decade, the website builder industry has grown tremendously. While this means we have more options than before, it can be overwhelming for first-timers. There are various website builder platforms to choose from, each with their own unique features and benefits.

With that being said, here we have reviewed all the popular website builders available, and below is our top picks. 

Best Website Builders

1. Wix

Wix is not really a new player in the website builder industry, has been around since 2006, more than a decade ago. However, Wix gained a lot of attention in the past couple of years or so especially due to their aggressive marketing campaigns featuring Hollywood A-list celebrities. 

Now, Wix is the hype website builder for “cool” people, but does it deserve all the attention, or just a fad?

One of the reasons driving Wix’s popularity is the fact that it’s one of the pioneers in bringing the drag-and-drop, visual builder approach in a website builder. Essentially changing the answer to the question “how to create a website?”. Wix provides everything you need from templates to hosting service, from the very beginning of building a website to actually launching a functional site. 

The key highlights of Wix are its ease of use, 5

Pros of Wix:

• Wix is a full-fledged software as a service (SaaS) platform so you have access to fast and responsive customer service.
• Fully-hosted platform, so you will not have to pay for separate hosting 
• Very easy to use visual website builder with a drag-and-drop approach
• Great library of additional apps to enhance your site
• Free plan available with limited storage, cannot connect your domain
• SSL enabled

Cons of Wix:

• You can’t customize any coding aspect (HTML and CSS), so less freedom in building your site
• Migrating your site from Wix to another platform is very difficult
• You still need to purchase a separate domain plan with the Connect Domain ($4.5/month plan)

Pricing:

• Website plans:
  • Free, 500MB Bandwidth, 500MB Storage
  • Connect Domain: $4.5/month, 1GB Bandwidth, 500MB storage, Wix logo on your site, no free domain
  • Combo: $8.5/month, 2GB bandwidth, 3GB storage
  • Unlimited: $12.5/month, Unlimited Bandwidth, 10 GB Storage
  • VIP: $24.5/month, Unlimited Bandwidth, 20GB storage
• Business & eCommerce plans (can accept online payments):
  • Basic: $17/month, Unlimited Bandwidth, 20GB storage
  • Unlimited: $25/month, Unlimited Bandwidth, 35GB storage
  • VIP: $35/month, Unlimited Bandwidth, 50GB storage

2. Weebly

Weebly is in many ways, very similar to Wix.

Both offers drag-and-drop style, visual website builders. Both offer usable free plans (with similar offerings), and with their premium plans, Weebly offers slightly more expensive plans across all packages, but offers unlimited bandwidth.basic SEO and lead generation features even with the cheapest plan.

Weebly’s visual builder is simpler than Wix, which will translate to an easier to use platform overall. However, with Weebly you get less freedom in customizing your website, since the elements of your site are locked within “grids”, so you can’t move them as freely.

Another notable thing is that all of Weebly’s templates are mobile responsive, and you wouldn’t need to adjust anything (this is not the case with Wix’s templates where you need to make at least minor adjustments). Weebly does offer fewer templates than Wix (as of date), but the ones they offer work really well.

Last but not least in comparing the two, Weebly offers slightly more advanced eCommerce features and tools, but Wix’s eCommerce-focused plans are slightly cheaper.

Pros of Weebly:

• Fast and responsive customer service
• Fully hosted platform, so you don’t need to purchase additional hosting and domain name
• Great eCommerce tools and the Business Plus plan offers email marketing features
• Unlimited bandwidth for all plans (including free plan)
• Very easy to use, even easier than Wix, the best choice for beginners

Cons of Weebly: 

• Limited freedom to customize the templates according to your preferences, can’t edit any coding aspect of the templates
• 3% transaction fees for every purchase on your eCommerce store if you are not using Business or Business Plus plan
• Slightly more expensive across all plans compared to Wix

Pricing (Unlimited bandwidth for all plans) :

• • Free, 500MB storage, Weebly branding in domain name
  • Connect, $5/month, 500MB storage
  • Pro, $12/month, Unlimited storage, basic ecommerce features
  • Business: $25/month, advanced ecommerce features
  • Business Plus: $38/month, advanced ecommerce features, email marketing features

3. WordPress

It’s impossible to discuss website builders today—or even website development in general—without mentioning WordPress. 

WordPress is currently the most popular website building platform, with over a third of the whole internet is powered by WordPress. 

It’s important, however, to understand that WordPress is significantly different than Wix and Weebly, since WordPress is an open-source platform. On one hand, creating a website on WordPress is completely free. On the other hand, you wouldn’t get any dedicated customer support and you will need at least basic programming knowledge to use WordPress.

However, due to the popularity of WordPress as a platform, there are plenty of resources to help you learn WordPress, including WordPress’s community guides. With WordPress, if you are willing to spend the time and have the necessary skills (design-wise and programming-wise), you have the absolute freedom to create a website according to your needs. 

Although WordPress is not as easy to use as Wix or Weebly, it’s still relatively easy to use with thousands of themes available, and if you want, there are also plugins allowing drag-and-drop building style like Divi.

Pros of WordPress:

• Free forever. You can allocate investments on hosting service, plugins, etc. according to your budget
• Complete control to customize every aspect of your website
• Many available resources to learn about the platform
• Thousands of templates (free and paid), some offer advanced features like analytics and automation
• Highly scalable as your business grows

Cons of WordPress:

• You need to at least know basic programming and web design (or willing to hire someone)
• Need to get a separate hosting service, which can be a hassle on its own
• Need to purchase your own domain name
• No customer service, you need to be proactive in learning and troubleshooting the platform

Pricing: Free (open source), but you will need to invest in separate hosting service and purchase a domain name. You might also need to invest on additional plugins and premium themes.

4. Shopify 

Shopify is a popular website builder especially in building eCommerce sites and online stores. Today, Shopify powers more than 500,000 online stores all over the world, with over $40 billion worth of online transactions. 

Shopify is an all-in-one website builder that also includes hosting service—similar to Weebly or Wix—, but especially focuses on eCommerce tools and features like an integrated payment gateway (Shopify Payments), payment processing features, inventory management, and so on.

It also includes hundreds of built-in templates to help you with in website creation, and also offer a visual website builder (again, similar to Wix or Weebly). Shopify also offers 24/7 customer service support (phone and chat).

Due to its eCommerce-focused features, Shopify is fairly expensive compared to other competitors, and the pricing models are based on eCommerce-related features (transaction fees, number of staff accounts, etc.)

Pros of Shopify:

• Advanced eCommerce-related tools and features (Shopify payment, inventory management, marketing solutions, etc.)
• Easy to use website builder with intuitive interface
• In-store POS system for physical stores
• Amazing integrations, including integrations with WordPress and other website builders
• Great reporting and analytics tools

Cons of Shopify:

• Expensive and limited plan options (note: Shopify Lite isn’t an actual website builder, just integrating Shopify’s eCommerce tools with existing platforms like Facebook or existing website). 
• Hard to migrate your site away from Shopify to other platforms

Pricing: 

• Basic Shopify ($29/month)
  • 2 user accounts
  • High transaction fees (2%) for external payment gateways, 2.9% online credit card rates
• Shopify ($79/month)
  • 5 user accounts
  • 1% transaction fees. 2.6% online credit card rates
• Advanced Shopify ($299/month)
  • 15 user accounts
  • 0.5% transaction fees, 2.4% online credit card rates

5. Squarespace

Squarespace especially emphasizes on design, as we can see from its website and brand philosophy. It offers a lot of (very) nicely designed templates and there are some unique features on the builder that are geared toward easier and more accurate design (i.e., a powerful photo editing feature).

Squarespace also offers a visual website builder, and in terms of ease of use, is a little bit more complex than Weebly, but easier to use than Wix (that’s already considering that Wix is already pretty easy to use).

The website editor and templates are responsive, so your site will always look good on mobile devices. However, you don’t get the feature to edit specifically the mobile site, like Wix, so less flexibility overall.

Squarespace also offer eCommerce-focused plans, so you can natively add an online store to your website. It offers pretty basic eCommerce tools and features, but the interface is really nice, clean, and easy to use.

Pros of SquareSpace:

• Clean, sleek, and intuitive interface
• Fair amount of well-designed templates, so you probably won’t need to make a lot of customizations. Best built-in designs overall. 
• Very easy to add content to your website, point anywhere on your site and you can create a content immediately
• Can easily create your own layout with drag and drop approach

Cons of SquareSpace:

• Limited third-party integrations
• Expensive for its features
• Limited payment gateway options with the eCommerce plans
• Less flexibility overall to customize your site

Pricing: 

• Personal ($12/month)
  • Unlimited bandwidth and storage
  • 2 users enabled
  • Basic reporting and analytics
• Business ($18/month)
  • Complete customizations with CSS and JavaScript
  • Professional Email address
  • Unlimited users
  • Advanced analytics
  • ECommerce integrations
• Basic Commerce ($26/month)
  • Promotional pop-ups and banners
  • Free commerce transaction fees
  • Unlimited product listing
  • ECommerce analytics
• Advanced Commerce ($40/month)
  • Advanced shipping 
  • Gift cards
  • Integrated accounting with Xero

Important Considerations When Choosing A Website Builder

What are the important factors to consider in choosing a website builder?

First things first, remember that the main goal is to help us create a website, and this should be our main principle when considering these different factors below:

1. Price VS Value

Yes, we all want a cheap, affordable option, especially when we are a small business with a limited budget. However, aiming solely to get the most affordable option is a wrong mindset. Rather, we should consider how much value we can get in relation to the price. 

Figure out what you actually need, any specific features you want, and aim to get the most affordable option that can provide these features. Define your website goals and KPIs, and figure out the necessary features to fulfill these goals.

On the other hand, since your website is a very important indicator of your reputation in today’s digital age. So. it’s probably wise to spend just a little bit more if you can get more value from the platform. 

2. Reliability

This platform will be the life and death of your website, especially when it also include a hosting service in the package.  

Website downtime can have very significant impacts on your business. It can cause you to lose potential customers who won’t come back, it can badly damage your reputation, and in some cases, drop or penalty in search engine rankings. In short, it can badly hurt your revenue both in the short and long term.

The reliability of the website builder, and the higher hosting uptime are important factors to consider when choosing between these platforms. 

3. Ease of Use VS Versatility

Newer website builders tend to feature visual builders where you’ll build the site upon a template with a drag-and-drop approach—no coding skills required. 

However, this type of website builders tend to limit your versatility in customizing the templates (with CSS or HTML), so you won’t get the freedom to build a site according to your exact needs.

Platforms that do offer some versatility, on the other hand, will require at least a basic coding knowledge. 

So, this aspect will depend on whether you have the required coding skills (or if you are willing to learn), and whether you are willing to spend some time to build the website, instead of simply using the given templates. 

Ideally, you should try to find a website builder that is easy enough to use for you while also providing enough freedom according to your needs. If that’s not possible, however, figure out which aspect you are more willing to compromise. 

4. Scalability

Obviously our hope is that our business will grow —and our website with it—. So, it’s important to consider how easy and affordable it will be to scale your website with the platform.

For example, you might need extra hosting space in the future. Does the platform offer the flexibility to do so? At what price? Also, how easy it will be to revamp your website in the future (if necessary?) 

5. eCommerce Integration

Some website builder platforms might integrate eCommerce viability in the builder, some others might require additional plugin(s), and some other won’t offer any eCommerce features at all. 

An eCommerce website will require several extra considerations from inventory management features, payment gateway integration, customer segmentation, dropshipping features, and shipping-related features, among others. 

Depending on whether you plan to include eCommerce store on your site, this might be an important factor to consider. 

6. Number of Templates

When you create a website using a website builder platform, the design process starts with the templates—or themes—provided by the builder. The template will be a building block, the one you customize upon to build your unique, functional website. 

You’d want a website builder that provides the right templates or themes according to your preferences (and/or references). Make sure the website builder offers enough number of themes and at least some degree of customization options—according to your needs—.

When you start with a template that is already a good fit for your business, you start with a very solid foundation in getting the perfect website. 

7. SEO-Related Features

No matter how good your created website is, it won’t bring any value to your business unless people actually find it. 

SEO remains one of the most effective ways to generate traffic to our website, so you might want to look for website builder platforms that also offer some form of tools and features that will assist your site’s SEO optimizations and performance. 

And The Winner Goes To…

It’s hard to pick just one website builder platform that can suit anyone’s needs, simply because  all of the tools we’ve reviewed, and especially the ones we’ve discussed above, each offered their own unique features and benefits. 

With that being said, here is our breakdown:

Best Overall: Wix

Wix is really popular nowadays and without its reasons: it’s very easy to use, it offers a lot of built-in templates and apps, it has great integrations with popular—and not popular— apps and platforms, and we get all of those with a relatively affordable price.

Easiest To Use: Weebly

The best choice for beginners and those who just want to quickly create a website without learning to code and design. Slightly more expensive than Wix, but still very affordable. 

Best for ECommerce: Shopify

Shopify is the most popular choice in building online stores because of its complete package: advanced eCommerce-related features from inventory management to payment gateway, advanced analytics and reporting, and for an eCommerce-focused alternative, relatively affordable.

Best Built-In Design: Squarespace

Squarespace provides the sleekest interface and offers a decent number of really well-designed templates. Quite expensive, but will be worth it if you really want to create a really good looking website without spending too much time on customizations.

Best Customizability: WordPress

The most popular website builder today, and quite different than the others on this list. WordPress is an open-source platform so you’ll need to get a separate hosting service and purchase your domain name. You will also need to know basic programming and design skills. However, if you are willing to spend the time and resources, you get the most freedom with WordPress.

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In a nutshell, hosting a website simply means uploading and storing the files related to your website on a server.

A server, on the other hand, is a dedicated computer (or can be just a program within a computer, or another device) that is tasked with storing and managing resources. The server is a centralized resource—in this case— for the website.

This process allows other people—from all around the globe— to “pull’ the necessary resources from this server and view your website. The server’s main task here is to receive and interpret incoming requests from users and then send the requested files (associated with specific page(s) to the user’s internet browser.

In the past, we will need to invest on our own server and hire a server engineer (or, learn the necessary skills ourselves). Yet, today we have thousands of companies providing the service to host and manage your website, at very low costs starting from below just $5/month.

In fact, today only a handful of giant enterprises with the size of Google and Amazon, to name a few, that host all of their websites and services on their own servers. Even companies like Netflix relies on a third-party hosting service (in this case, Amazon’s) for their hosting solution.

Using a third-party hosting company, simply allows us to “bypass” the necessary technical and financial requirements to host our own site.

Where To Start?

In the process of hosting a website, there are two different things we need:

• The web hosting service
• Purchasing a domain name

A web hosting service, as we’ve briefly discussed above, is a company that owns their web servers, and sell their services to host and manage your website. They simply take care of all the programming and technical needs, and usually us—as the website owner— will be given an easy-to-use interface to manage this hosting.

A domain name, is essentially the name of the website in the eyes of the human users. For example, _________.com will bring you to this site, and _________ is our domain name.

Some web hosting services, like NameCheap and GoDaddy,  among others, act as both a web hosting provider and domain name registrar, so they might be a good choice for you if you’re a beginner and are currently confused about the whole process.

Step-by-Step Guide To Host Your Website

Step 1: Figuring out The Type of Your Website

In general, there are two different types of websites, which will dictate different hosting needs. They are:

1.Static Site 

A static website is a website that doesn’t change in response to the actions taken by the user. So, the main goal here is informational, for example, in our About Us page, we only want to inform the visitors about the details of our business, and the page—and the source code— won’t change according to the user actions.

A static website is typically created with ‘just’ HTML and CSS in a simple text editor. However, static here doesn’t necessarily mean all the pages will look the same. Each of the pages can use different HTML codes0 and look very different. 

Another common misconception is that static websites is solely about textual content. Truth is, we can include videos, audio files, and beautiful images in a plain HTML message. 

Again, static here simply means the website’s source code won’t change no matter what actions a user performed on the site. 

2.Dynamic Site

As opposed to a static website, a dynamic website allows users to interact with the website’s elements, and the website will provide feedback according to the user actions. 

While static websites—as discussed above— use only client-side CSS and HTML, a dynamic website will also rely on server-side languages like PHP or JavaScript. 

A website with eCommerce functionalities (i.e., online store, is a good example of a dynamic website, as well as any websites that allow users to have individual accounts (i.e. forums, social network sites, etc.)

Step 2: Choosing Between Different Types of Web Hosting

Different kinds of websites might have different hosting needs depending on various factors from size to pricing to reliability.

On the other hand, there is not one single web hosting service —even if you opt for your own private server— that can cover all your bases. Some web hosts might be better in certain areas like server response time (speed) or might offer the latest technologies. Other platforms, however, might offer a more reliable server or a more affordable rate. 

In general, however, we can differentiate the different hosting services into several types, and here are some of the common ones:

1. Dedicated Hosting

When you subscribe to a dedicated hosting service, it means you are renting one physical server, and you can use this entire server for your website.

This will translate to a faster, more reliable, and more secure hosting, but you also get additional flexibilities like the ability to use your preferred operating system and install your own software.

However, a dedicated hosting service is usually the most expensive out of the bunch. Also, since you’ll be managing your own server, it might require some technical skills and programming knowledge (or you might need to hire a system admin). 

You generally only need a dedicated hosting service when your business is already so big you are comfortable to afford the necessary costs of hiring a system admin (or even a team of admins) and the monthly costs of dedicated server. 

Pricing: starts from around $70/month.

Recommendation: GoDaddy and NameCheap offers some of the best, most reliable dedicated hosting services out there.  

2. Shared Hosting

As opposed to dedicated hosting, here you share one physical server with other websites. You do have your separate (secured) account, so you still own your website privately. 

The main advantage of this type is the shared cost, so your overall hosting cost can be much cheaper than a dedicated hosting, as low as $5/month. 

However, since you share the server with other sites, if there’s a site with a lot of traffic sharing the same server with yours, it can compromise your site’s speed and performance. On the other hand, if you are the site using the most traffic on the server, you get the most of this server’s speed and performance while spending very little. The speed of the site is an important ranking factor in any SEO strategy.

A good choice for businesses that are just starting out or if you don’t expect a lot of traffic (at least initially).

Pricing: Starts from around $5/month to around $30/month

Recommendation: Bluehost is a popular and affordable shared hosting provider, NameCheap and GoDaddy are also good options. 

3. VPS Hosting

VPS stands for Virtual Private Server, and is essentially a shared hosting server with extra features. VPS hosting especially offers tools and resources to handle traffic spikes—the most common issue with shared hosting.

With a VPS hosting, we get a partition of the shared hosting, creating a “private server”, hence the name. With this, a VPS service offers the affordability of the shared hosting while also providing the stability and versatility of having a dedicated resource. 

A great choice for medium-sized businesses and eCommerce businesses, or those looking for an upgrade from shared hosting.

Pricing: Starting from around $25/month

Recommendation: NameCheap and HostGator offer good VPS plans. 

4. Managed WordPress Hosting

This type refers to hosting services made specifically for WordPress. In essence, this is a shared web hosting service where the service provider will also help maintaining your WordPress environment from making sure everything is updated correctly (and won’t clash with other updates), protect your site from hackers and other security risks, and so on. 

Relatively affordable—-while not as affordable as a standard shared hosting service—, and is a good option if your site is WordPress-based or some alternative CMSs to WordPress. 

Pricing: Starts from $35/month

Recommendation: WPEngine for affordability, GoDaddy for reliability. ) 

5.Cloud Hosting

Cloud hosting allows more than one physical servers to collaborate together via the cloud, before they host a website or several websites—like a shared hosting system. 

In theory, hundreds of servers can work together. So,with this type of hosting we have a virtually unlimited potential to scale our website’s hosting according to our needs. 

Cloud hosting is usually very good at handling traffic spikes (i.e. during a DDoS and application layer attack). 

A very versatile hosting service type where you can also adjust your budget based on your needs.

Pricing: Typically uses a pay-per-use model, so will vary depending on your needs.

Step 3: Deciding Between Linux and Windows Hosting

Most of the popular website hosting services will let you choose between Linux or Windows hosting.

Linux is the most popular operating system for web servers (as of 2019), and the common misconception is that Linux environment is more secure than WIndows. Both OSs are equally secure, and factors like the server’s setup and the team behind the servers will matter more to security. 

The key factor to consider here, then, is the fact that Linux-based hosting is significantly more popular, so there are more applications that are compatible with the OS, and more web designers/developers/admins that are familiar with it. Linux and Windows servers use different control panels, so familiarity will be important. 

With that being said, unless you have websites which need specific Windows-only applications, Linux is the better choice.

Applications Specific for Windows Hosting

• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Access
• C#
• Visual Basic 
• ASP Classic
• ASP.NET
• Microsoft SharePoint (requires separate installation and license)
• Microsoft Exchange (requires separate installation and license)

Applications Specific for Linux Hosting:

• Many different Apache modules, scripts, and applications
• SSH
• Scripts written in PHP, Python and Unix Languages (very common nowadays) 
• MySQL and PostgreSQL, also very common in today’s websites

Step 4: Setting Up DNS Address

After you’ve decided on a web hosting service, you will get a Domain Name Servers, or DNS (also known as Name Servers). 

We can think of DNS as the Yellow Pages of the internet, where all IP addresses are listed and indexed. So, before you can get your website up and running, you will need to first change the DNS of your domain. 

Fortunately, this will only require several simple steps:

1. Go to your Domain Control Panel, will differ depending on your hosting service, but should be available on your customer account on the hosting service’s website.
2. Login to your customer account
3. Choose the Domain Name for this specific site (if you only have one site, there should be only this one).
4. Go to the Domain Registration section, then DNS or Name Servers
5. Replace the existing DNS with the ones provided by your current hosting service, and then click apply or update

Step 5: Uploading Your Website

After you’ve setup everything, it’s time to upload your website to the hosting server. You can use the hosting service’s File Manager (commonly with cPanel) or use an FTP client such as WinSCP, CyberDuck, or Filezilla.

The process will vary depending on the FTP client you use, but it’s usually a pretty straightforward process, but here are a few things to pay attention to:

• FTP always runs on Port 21, so make sure it’s set properly
• Make sure to use your website’s correct IP address in the FTP Address field
• Make sure the FTP is connected properly before you drag and drop the files and folders to upload your website
• Re-check the uploaded folders (and files), and repeat uploading if necessary

FAQs About Hosting a Website

Here are some of the most commonly asked questions regarding website hosting, and our answers for them:

1. Why do I need a hosting service to host my website?

You can certainly purchase your own physical server and host your website on it. However, you will face several issues:

• Time and Resources: you will need to scale up your physical servers as your website grows, this can be extremely time-consuming and expensive
• Human Resources: unless you possess all the required skills to maintain, secure, and troubleshoot the site, you will need to hire engineers and administrators
• Security: the risk of potential data breach and other security risks are serious, and you will need to pay constant attention to these possibilities

Subscribing on a hosting service provider will allow you to “bypass” these problems and turn your attention to things that will help your business—and website— grow. These hosting service providers specialize server maintenance, with their own system engineers and administrators that will consistently monitor their servers 24/7.

2. Can I just buy a domain name first and host the website later?

Yes, it’s possible. In fact, it’s a pretty common practice.

Remember, however, that the domain name will be “empty” and won’t point to your website before you host the site properly and set up the right DNS. 

You can use services like Name.com or Domain.com to register your domain name. They offer relatively easy to use domain management platform, so you can have an easier time in connecting the domain name with your chosen hosting service later.

3. Should I buy a domain name and hosting service from a single company?

Generally speaking, yes, unless there’s a specific reason not to. For example, the reason stated in question #2 above, or when your preferred domain name is only available in specific provider but you don’t like what their hosting service offers. 

Using the service from the same company for both will mean that you can manage them under the same platform and dashboard. Also, some companies might offer a better deal if you decide to purchase both (for example, Bluehost offers a free domain name if you subscribe to their hosting service.). 

4. Can I host the site on my computer first?

Yes, you can, and it’s a pretty common practice to test things before commiting on purchasing a hosting. However, the faster you get an actual hosting, the faster you can grow your website.

5. Can I change provider later on?

Yes, and in general there won’t be any risks involved. You can use an FTP client to migrate your website to a new host.

6. Which hosting service should I choose?

There are so many hosting companies out there, and nowadays, each of them offers so many different packages encompassing all the different hosting types.

So, understandably, choosing the right one for your website can be overwhelming. 

With that being said, here are our recommendations:

• GoDaddy and NameCheap are the most reliable hosting services with years of experience between them. They offer various different types of plans so you can choose one depending on your budget and needs
• For starter websites, Bluehost is an affordable alternative 

7. How much would it cost to host a website?

The cost of hosting your website can vary greatly depending on several different factors from the type of hosting service (as we have discussed above in step 2), the hosting plan, the reputation of the hosting company, and so on. It can be as low as below $5/month (typically for shared hosting) and as high as thousands of dollars each month for high-end dedicated servers. 

Our recommendation is to weigh your current needs and choose the cheapest possible option that provides the features you want. As your business and website grow, you can gradually upgrade.

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We certainly hope this guide has helped you learn how to host your website properly. Remember that there isn’t any single best approach to host your website, but rather you have to choose the right approach and the right hosting service according to your current needs and the available budget. If you don’t have the experience you can always reach out to a B2B marketing consultant to get it right. 

Nowadays, it’s relatively easy—and safe— to migrate between different hostings, so remember that choosing a hosting service isn’t a commitment you can’t break. Choose the one according to your current needs, and as your website and business grow, upgrade to a better service.

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