In the 25 years I’ve been in web design, I have dealt with countless web hosting providers. For the bulk of my career though, there have been two main providers I have used: GoDaddy and Fastcomet.

For the longest time, GoDaddy was the easiest provider to deal with, especially for self-managed shared hosting. I was satisfied with their service for close to a decade.

But then, they started phasing out many of their standard offerings and converting them into premium addons. With their shift in focus to providing their own managed WordPress hosting services, among other issues, they’ve long since stopped being even close to the best option out there.

So, when I was looking for a new provider about seven years ago, after much research, I settled on Fastcomet.com. They provide ultra fast SSD hosting with free domain registration and SSL certificates as well as many “premium” addon services which are included for free. They always have fantastic introductory rates and they also have the fastest and most comprehensive customer support I have ever seen in hosting provider.

As a bonus, if you are willing to prepay up to 3 years, you can usually get that timeframe at up to 80% off their normal pricing, since they are almost always running a great sale.

Personally, I’ve never been interested in actually providing hosting services for clients, so I’ve had to rely on finding the best providers I can for my clients as well as myself. So, even if you don’t choose to use my web design or development services, you can still get exceptional hosting with Fastcomet.