Managed Hosting

Provo, Utah, company Bluehost has a basic shared web hosting plan that can get your site up and running for a mere $4.95 per month—you can barely get a drive-thru combo meal for that price. Their larger plans aren’t all that expensive either, topping out at $209.99 a month. Commitment-phobes take note, however: Bluehost’s attractively cheap plans require annual contracts with no month-to-month options.

There are plenty of reasons to go steady with Bluehost, though. The shared plans offer most everything a small-staffed business would need from a website, with reasonable storage, data transfers, and email accommodations. Bluehost’s dedicated web hosting plans up the ante with up to 16 GB of RAM, 1 TB of hard drive space, and 15 TB of data transfer bandwidth, while their VPS plans offer close to the same for less money.

Bluehost also offers WordPress hosting plans, which range from a basic $4.95 a month up to $19.95 for a WP Pro plan—not too steep if you’ve grown accustomed to WordPress’s simplicity, security, and speed, but still a bit of a price bump. Bluehost also offers a free version of the super-easy, if somewhat plain-Jane, website builder Weebly, in addition to a decent array of e-commerce tools.

If you want to get your small business online quickly and cheaply, there’s much to like about Bluehost. Their uptime and security stats are striking, on par with companies charging almost twice the monthly price, and you won’t need a techie to run your site (though there are enough features to keep a webmaster on their toes).