There are plenty available on the market, and picking one that's capable, reliable, meets your needs and delivers competitive value for money. To give you a clear view of your options, we've reviewed the different services available right now and compiled them into a list of what we think are the best website builders in 2020.

1. Bluehost web hosting

The best web hosting service right now is Bluehost. Based in Utah, Bluehost is the preferred partner for WordPress, the world's favorite website builder. This service does a great job of balancing price and features for less experienced businesses while offering lots of options for more advanced users.

WordPress plans are naturally more expensive, but there are discounted introductory rates available. With those, you get automated setup for WordPress, as well as other popular apps via a Mojo Marketplace-powered system. Bluehost also gives you a free domain for the first year and provides a free Weebly-based website builder to create a site up to six pages, although website templates aren’t included.

2. InMotion Hosting

Excellent performance, great features, and helpful tech support propel InMotion Hosting to second place in our roundup of the best web hosting services 2020. InMotion has been around since 2001, and is one of the world's largest independent web hosting companies. It offers several shared hosting plans, with prices starting at a very attractive monthly cost.

To sweeten the deal, all of InMotion's plans come with a ton of great free features that other services might charge extra for – think malware and DDoS protection, basic backups, 'spam-safe' email and a WordPress-based website builder (if you're looking at WordPress options specifically, take a look at our dedicated guide to the best WordPress hosting services).

3. HostGator web hosting

When it comes to cheap web hosting, HostGator’s Hatchling plan is our top choice. The well-known Dallas-based company offers an impressive amount of unrestricted features in its most basic Hatchling plan: there are no limits on bandwidth, web space, subdomains, MySQL databases, FTP or email accounts.

There's also one-click WordPress installation, cPanel-based site management and a 99.9% 'uptime' guarantee covering both server and network failures; plus 24/7 customer support, and $200 of Google and Bing Ads credits.

4. Hostinger

Hostinger boasts over 29 million users, thanks to its highly competitive web hosting plans offered via the company's 000webhosting brand. This service is particularly well suited to business users, and thanks to its size is very wallet-friendly too (especially if you opt for a longer plan).

The most basic Single plan is very cheap, but bear in mind you'll be getting limited features – there's no SSL certificate or domain name included. In order to keep control over performance and features, Hostinger uses its own technology, including a customised control panel rather than the usual cPanel. Hostinger's offerings are also impressively feature-rich.

5. GoDaddy

GoDaddy also boasts a guaranteed 99.9% uptime, free backup and restore, and expert hosting support available 24/7, all year round. Even its cheapest web hosting package comes with 100GB storage, unmetered bandwidth, and a free domain – with plenty of options due to GoDaddy's vast domain name repository. US-based GoDaddy is one of the largest web hosting companies around. As one of the few that’s done television advertising, it’s probably the best known, too.

One feature we particularly like is that on every package you can increase hosting capacity on demand directly from your account – handy if you experience an unexpected surge in traffic.

Shared web hosting

Shared web hosting means that your website will sit on the same server as many other sites. It’s the simplest type of hosting on the market, and it’s the cheapest too – it can cost as little as $1/£1 per month – because it comes with limited bandwidth, administration and performance capabilities.

If your needs are pretty basic, shared web hosting is a great option. It's good for small websites and novices who don’t want the flexibility and customization options of VPS or dedicated hosting. Think of it like a family data plan: responsibility is shared equally among users, and your monthly data needs don’t exceed the amount allotted in the plan.

VPS hosting

VPS hosting is a more premium option than shared hosting, giving you greater customisation options and increased performance. That's important if you’re anticipating that your website or creative business is going to grow. VPS hosting will enable you to deliver a user experience that goes beyond the basic shared hosting level.

It costs more, but you get more bandwidth and private disk space, better performance, more safety features, and have full control when it comes to increasing or decreasing your data setup.