Lots of things affect your online success. Web hosting is one of the most overlooked, but most important factors. Your web hosting provider impacts your SEO rankings, the user experience, bounce rate and many other variables.
We can’t overemphasize the importance of choosing the right hosting provider. Unfortunately, it can be tricky in Europe, since there are so many options and they differ from country to country. Here is a list of some of the best hosting providers that you can find throughout the continent.
Belcloud
Belcloud Hosting Corporation is a popular hosting company in both the Netherland and Bulgaria. You can purchase one of four plans with prices ranging from €59 to €149 a month.
The €59 “Mini” plan comes with two disk drives, a minimum of 8 GB of RAM, unmetered bandwidth and free DDoS protection. You can get up to twice as much storage space and memory with the €149 “Super” plan.
1&1 Web Hosting
PC Magazine UK rates 1&1 Web Hosting as the number one web hosting company in the United Kingdom. There are several reasons it has earned their top spot:
- It has remarkable uptime.
- The company offers great customer support.
- They provide a breadth of hosting packages.
- The service is compatible with both Linux and Windows operating systems.
- The dashboard is very easy to use.
The only real downside is their limited money back guarantee, but it shouldn’t be a problem, since the service is so reliable.
True Hoster
True Hoster is one of the most popular hosting providers in Germany, Austria and many other neighboring countries. There are several reasons their services are preferred over other German hosting companies.
One of the biggest benefits of True Hoster is the simplicity of their services. The registration process only requires two clicks and the process to set up a website is almost as quick.
They also only offer a single one-size-fits-all hosting package, which should be sufficient for anyone’s needs. According to their product description page, their package offers:
- Unlimited Disk Space
- Unlimited Transfer Bandwidth
- Unlimited E-mail Addresses
- Unlimited MySQL Databases
- 24/7 customer support
- cPanel and FREE Migration
- Free SSL Certificate
- Free DDoS Protection
- Price Match Guarantee
- Dedicated IP for only € 0.5
- 512MB Dedicated RAM
- 1GB MySQL SSD Space
You really can’t go wrong with this service package.
Site5
Site5 is one of the most highly recommended hosting providers listed on Who is Hosting This. There are a number of reasons the company is rated more highly than other hosting providers, including:
- Unlimited traffic and disk space
- Their 99.9% uptime guarantee
- Free daily backups
- WordPress integration
They currently host over 150,000 websites around the world, including many in Europe. Some users have complained about outdated PHP and less than optimal customer service, but for the most part their experiences have been very positive.
VPS.AG
If you don’t like the bandwidth problems associated with shared hosting, then you should look into getting a virtual private server (VPS). VPS.AG is one of the best VPS options out there. While they are based out of Seychelles, they have a lot of European customers. In fact, according to Alexa, they have more customers from Ireland than any other country.
They are known for their cost-effectiveness and virtually eliminating downtime with a top-of-the-line cloud-based storage infrastructure.