HosterDirect

Email Accounts: 10,000
Platform: Unix
Price: $9.95

HosterDirect has four different shared hosting plans that start at $4.95 per month. We’ll take a look at their mid-level plan, which is called the Standard Plan, to see what it has to offer. The monthly price for this plan is currently $9.95 per month, but if you purchase a year in advance, you’ll get two months free, which is always nice to see.

This plan offers 2 gigs of disk space and 60 gigs of monthly data transfer, which is in line with other hosting companies that offer plans in this price range. It is free to upgrade or downgrade your account, and there are currently no set-up fees, two features which are always nice to see. You can have an unlimited amount of subdomains with this plan, as well as fifteen domain name pointers. Domain forwarding is also available and i you need extra pointers, the next plan up doubles this amount.

CPanel and Fantastico are offered, and support is provided for SSL. Email and FTP accounts are unlimited and you can have an unlimited amount of mailing lists, autoresponders and forwarders. A webmail client and personal mail servers are also provided. Backups are performed daily and weekly, and the servers are monitored 24/7. Support is offered for Perl, PHP, SSH and custom error pages as well as several other advanced features.

Technical support is offered 24/7 and includes email, live chat and support tickets. Toll-free telephone support is offered during regular business hours. A 30-day money back guarantee is provided, and your account will be set-up instantly. Overall, for the money, this plan is a great value and offers a lot of nice features that set it apart from the budget host herd.