If you are a small business and you are looking for web hosting company for small business, you have few options that will fit your company needs. The main concern for most small businesses is security and reliability of the service. When looking at a web hosting provider for small business, you should look for the following -

- Do they offer automated site backups of daily or weekly basis? If no, How much are they charging per month or per year?

- Do they offer load balancing option for sites on shared web hosting package?

- What security features do they employ to make sure your data and site is secure?

- Do they utilize RAID option to prevent data loss?

- How many users do they place per server?

Below is the list of companies that offer automated backup options for small business site and utilize advanced server technology that will make your site up and running.

Top Ranked Web Hosting Company for Small Business

Hostgator has a limit on the backup and they only allow 50,000 inodes (files and directories) per backup. Also, Inmotion offer automated backup but they only allow backup of 10 GB of files. If you go over 10 GB, you will need to pay extra.

Overall, if you are just establishing an online presence for your small business, go with Lunarpages as they are currently offering a nice deal of $4.95 per month when you sign up in advance. We also like the option of automated tape backups that is offered by Lunarpages. The only problem we see with Lunarpages is that they charge $2.00 extra per month for shell access but shell access is not required all the time and it's usually required during initial site setups.

Web Hosting Buzz offers the best business package for well established businesses but it might be expensive for new startups. The great thing about Web Hosting Buzz is that they only limit 50 users per servers and utilize SAS RAID to prevent any data loss. In the end, you have to compare the list of hosting providers above and pick the one that suits your need.

Good luck with your online business venture.

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Most offer manual backup
written by Jacob , August 02, 2008

most of the web hosting companies that are using cpanel give you the option to manually download the backup file to your computer or remote ftp but I can understand for business sites backups plays a very crucial role and they need to be automated.

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written by Ed , August 05, 2008

I think webhostingpad should be listed as a good small business hosting provider. I signed up with them and so far things are going really well. I don't have a big e-commerce site yet but hopefully i'll get there someday.

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written by Lee , August 05, 2008

I didn't have the money to spend $30 per month because my site was fairly new. i went with hostgator and signed up with the cheapest package. My site is getting about 5000 unique per month and still doing okay. So my recommendation is to simply start small because you don't want to waste your money with expensive web hosting packages. If you are worried about backup, just download your site backup every weekend to your computer. I think if i start to get a lot of traffic, i'll just move up to vps or dedicated server

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