Best Linux Web Hosting - 2012 Linux Web Hosting Awards

Linux web hosting is the most common hosting solution available in the current market. Armed with PHP, Perl, JAVA, MySQL, Miva and a large array of other Web mastering tools, Linux web hosting plans could offer a powerful line up of features and become the most prevalent hosting platform in the world.

Thousands of companies offer Linux hosting service, but not all of them can really give you the best value solution together with fast reliable product and super customer support. "Best Linux Web Hosting" awards are given to the top players in this extremely competitive industry with the consideration of Price Value, Customer Support, Control Panel, and Reliability.

Best Linux Web Hosting Awards

And please refer to How We Select the Hosting Award Winners about the process we select the hosting award winners.

Why They are the Best

It's not an easy task to find out the winner for Linux web hosting considering there are quite many excellent products in this area. So we have to set very high criteria to make sure what we have selected are really the best of all.

• First, they have to be in industry for over 8+ years, and continuously deliver excellent service to their customers
• Servers are reliable with much higher uptime than industry normal one at 99.9%. We only filter out those who can achieve 99.98% uptime based on our own monitoring data. Right, we don't refer to the number they advertise.
• Price need to be affordable and customer friendly, such as "Anytime Money Back", "Full Time money back period", or no long term contract is required when signup, etc
• Including rich features to meet the requirement when creating a powerful web site.

Eventually, we select out Bluehost, HostGator, and InmotionHosting as the winners for this most competitive award.

BlueHost are famous for their super customer support and very fast web server. They has been doing Linux Hosting for 15+ years and know all problems come with it. Their CEO himself is an expert in Linux and web hosting, he has successfully setup a team who really love and understand hostings. The server monitoring tool developed by them could offer Shared Hosting account with an VPS level protection, only Bluehost could give you this level of security in the industry. By continuously upgrading servers with the latest powerful hardware, Bluehost make sure their customers could enjoy far better than industry normal server speed.

They are so confident in their product and customer service, all customer of Bluehost are authorized to request their money back at anytime they want to cancel the account. And their price is affordable to $3.95/month only. If you need a shared Linux web hosting, it's hard to be wrong when working with Bluehost. Close to 2,000,000 domain choosing Bluehost has said everything.

Hostgator is a big player in web hosting industry, they offer world-class Linux hosting service to individual, small business, and enterprises. They are awarded as the 21st fastest growing privacy company in Inc. 5000 list, the highest ranking web hosting companies have been granted so far. The hosting solutions Hostgator provide cover Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting to Dedicated server, which means you can progressively upgrade your service according to the growth of your site without changing the web host.

HostGator are offering hosting service to over 4 million domains now, which make up approximately 1% of the world's Internet traffic. What's more, HostGator have successfully maintained a high customer satisfaction when growing their business fast. To work with HostGator, you have no need to signup a yearly or bi-yearly contract, they do allow you to pay the bill month by month. Linux web hosting environment from Hostgator are well optimized to run most of the application, combined with their excellent customer support, Hostgator is your best choice for small- to middle size business or eCommerce site.

Inmotion Hosting is a Business Class hosting service provider who have received 3 Star CNET Certified for 8 year running. Besides providing fast and reliable Linux solution, inmotionhosting is the only hosting company to have multiple data centers for faster speeds, AKA Speed Zone. When purchasing their Linux hosting product, you are allowed to choose a data center which is close to your customers to make sure a fast connection. And the free backup service from them will put all your data in safe. Inmotion Hosting is great for your small business sites. They offer 90 days full money back guarantee which is long enough for you to test out their service.

Finally, all above 3 companies have 24/7/365 dedicated US Customer Service Reps standby to support you. None of them outsource the customer support outside US.