We've stripped away the jargon and condensed the complex spec sheets into easy-to-scan profiles, so you can navigate and compare the best web hosting services with ease.

There are plenty available on the market, allowing you to pick 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 web hosting services in 2020.


5. GoDaddy

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.

GoDaddy boasts a guaranteed 99.9% uptime, free backup and restore, and expert hosting support available 24/7, all year round. 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.

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).

Hostinger's offerings are also impressively feature-rich. In order to keep control over performance and features, Hostinger uses its own technology, including a customised control panel rather than the usual cPanel.

3. HostGator web hosting

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.

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. When it comes to cheap web hosting, HostGator’s Hatchling plan is our top choice.

2. InMotion Hosting

InMotion offers both cPanel and Softaculous-powered hosting. In testing, InMotion’s overall performance levels ranked well above average.
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).

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. Excellent performance, great features, and helpful tech support propel InMotion Hosting to second place in our roundup of the best web hosting services 2020.

1. Bluehost web hosting

The best web hosting service right now is Bluehost. Bluehost 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. Its shared hosting packages start with a very reasonable 'basic' plan, targeted at home users.

Based in Utah, Bluehost is the preferred partner for WordPress, the world's favourite 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.