If you’re currently shopping for a hosting provider, you’ve probably checked out x10Hosting. This company has a great product, but if it isn’t exactly what you are looking for, it’s always good to know the alternatives.
Some of the biggest complaints about x10Hosting are:
- Lack of support
- Lack of features in the free plan
- Difficulty in setting up a website
- Outages in service
But some people aren’t completely sold on their offerings. If this is you, it’s definitely time to start looking into x10Hosting alternatives.
In this blog we will review several different x10Hosting alternatives. Some free and some paid plans.
Before choosing your new hosting provider, make sure that you do your due diligence by reviewing several of the options listed below before purchasing. These providers run different specials all the time, so having a thorough due diligence process will have substantial cost savings benefits for you.
In this blog, we will first go over the best x10Hosting alternative, and then cover other free and premium alternatives. Let’s get started!
x10Hosting Alternatives: Our Top Choice
My favorite hosting provider, and the best alternative to both x10Hosting’s free and premium plans, is Bluehost.
Here is why it is the best alternative to the free plan:
When you sign up for the free x10Hosting plan, you get what you pay for. So essentially, what you are getting is free. Many people who sign up think that since this is one of the highest rated free hosting platforms that it won’t have any problems.
See, that isn’t entirely true. And then when people realize this, they become extremely disgruntled.
If you are serious about starting a website, and have even just the littlest bit of cash, you can afford Bluehost. They offer plans for as low as $3.95 a month, and their services fix all of the problems that x10Hosting has, plus they give you even more features.
But what about the premium plan x10Hosting offers? (You’re probably wondering if Bluehost is a good alternative for that.)
And I’m here to tell you that it totally is.
Yes, when you upgrade to x10Hosting’s premium plan, you get a bunch of features and issues that fix the problems from the free plan.
But in my opinion, the level of support, industry clout, and knowledge that Bluehost has compared to x10Hosting really speaks for itself. There are tons and tons of articles out there that talk about what a great hosting provider Bluehost is, along with even more tutorials and guides to help you with any problems that might arise.
And not that support for x10Hosting is bad, but nothing really compares to BlueHost’s 24/7 support.
BlueHost also has a money back guarantee, so if you try out their service and end up hating it, you haven’t lost out on anything. This is why I recommend that everyone interested in the x10Hosting Free or Premium plan at least try out BlueHost for a month, since it is ultimately low risk due to the money back guarantee.
Besides pricing and the money back guarantee, here are a few of the other things I love about BlueHost:
- They are recommended by WordPress because of their quality and ease of use with the WordPress platform.
- They allow you to create fully customizable websites. You aren’t stuck in the same template and pattern as other websites, which is pretty common for free hosting plans.
- They have an easy to use dashboard, which is so useful when you are trying to figure out how to build and maintain a website.
- They have a full suite of tools available to make building and maintaining your website easy.
- They have built in security that will ensure your safety and your business’s safety on the web.
- As well as fast web pages to create the optimal user experience for your website visitors.
Since Bluehost is such a big company, they can reach economies of scale and provide these benefits to all of their users.
So, by this point you know that I think you should definitely give BlueHost a try as an x10Hosting alternative for both the free and paid plan. But what if you want to try a service other than BlueHost?
x10Hosting Alternatives: Paid and Free Plans
Let’s go through all of the alternatives listed below.
- GoDaddy Hosting
Cost: Starting at $2.49/month
One of the most popular hosting providers on the internet, GoDaddy touts themselves as the #1 web hosting provider in the world. They also have 24/7 customer support, and some of the fastest load times in the world.
- HostGator
Cost: Starting at $2.75/month
HostGator is another huge brand in the web hosting business. Like other providers, they offer full time support, and extremely quick page load times. On their website they advertise how easy it is to get up and started with their tools.
HostGator also has a migration team that can transfer your website from your current provider over to them. Finally, Hostgator has a 45 day money back guarantee.
- Hostmonster
Cost: Starting at $4.95/month
While Hostmonster isn’t as well known of a provider as the two listed above, they definitely deserve to be mentioned on this list. They also offer 24/7 support, as well as a 30 day money back guarantee. Along with their impressive support commitment, they have an extensive database of resources including tutorials, guides, and different types of articles.
Cost: Free
Freehosting.com is a 100% free hosting service that provides you with unmetered bandwidth, and the ability to use your own domain name. Several free hosting providers make you use a version of their domain in your URL.
For example, my domain would look like www.littlemarketontheprairie.hostguru.com, instead of just www.littlemarketerontheprairie.com.
But you don’t have to worry about that with freehosting.com!
You can read my review of their hosting service here, and visit their website here.
- 000webhost
Cost: Free
In my opinion 000webhost is x10Hosting’s biggest competitor. They offer similar plans and have similar business models, being that they both have free plans and then upgrades to bigger premium accounts.
000webhost offers a lot for their free program: a 99% uptime guarantee, limitless disk space and bandwidth, and easy website builder tool, an a one click website installer.
Read my blog that compares x10Hosting to 000webhost here.
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