The 10 Best Web Hosting Services for Your Website 2024

In the web hosting market there are providers of all types: from the most advanced, suitable for programming with the main programming languages, to the simplest ones aimed at the user who is just starting out and wants to be able to create a simple website. 

It is important to judge each provider on its own merits. If a service is aimed at beginners, the user experience will outweigh the amount of control they give you over MySQL databases. On the contrary, if a service is aimed at companies and users who require a more advanced level of control, it will be important for us to consider how far we can take their hosting. 

Even so, there are basic indicators that allow us to judge the quality of a service. Regardless of who it is aimed at, a quality provider should ensure consistent speeds, good uptime, security tools, and a pleasant user experience. 

To judge the quality of each supplier properly, it is not enough to look at their promises. Ultimately, every hosting company camouflages its shortcomings (even our favorites), whether by showing you the monthly cost despite only allowing annual payments or by emphasizing features that should clearly be inherent to a hosting plan (on one occasion, the site promoted “free hosting” within the hosting plan you purchase (wow!). 

One of the common ruses is to claim that “unlimited domains” are provided, when in fact registration of a single domain is not included in the hosting plan. In this context, that culture of deception, which is so familiar to us, makes its inevitable presence. 

However, it is not always easy to predict the necessary web space and traffic before starting a project, so the most common thing is to start with a lower plan and expand as we progress and detect needs. 

And then there is the question about popularity: is the fact that we know a brand “by hearsay” a guarantee of quality? To clear up any doubts, we started by asking the community of programmers, digital marketing specialists and bloggers to find out which web hosting services are most often talked about. 

But it is not enough for us to listen to the opinions of others (no matter how much we respect them). So, in true Website Planet style, we’re dedicated to personally testing each hosting provider and rating them based on our strict standards and the expert opinion of our writers. 

To do this, we start by contracting a hosting plan (usually the most affordable) from each of the providers and subjecting it to rigorous testing for a period of several months. We constantly monitor factors such as server stability, loading speed, and global reach. Of course, we use external tools for each of these monitoring, that way, we don’t have to blindly trust the metrics that each provider “says” they follow. 

Beyond automated monitoring tools, our expert testers were dedicated to rating each platform’s ease of use, as well as user experience. 

Then we perform the crucial test: contacting the support service, which reveals very particular information about each provider. We communicated on the least predictable days and hours to verify if they lived up to what the service promises. Of course, we posed as inexperienced customers, often asking meaningless questions, to see how they responded. 

Lastly, we look at price, quality of service, transparency of pricing structure, and refund policies. With all this information we can classify the best web hosting services on the Spanish market and compare them with some of the European giants. Are you ready?

What are the best web hosts available in Spanish?

Our first survey resulted in the following list of the most popular web hosting companies:

• Acens
• Hostinger
• Raiola Networks
• Dinahosting
• Loading
• Arsys
• Siteground
• Axarnet
• Nominal
• Interdomains

We have written a detailed analysis of each provider that you can read by clicking on the corresponding name in the list.

To test a web host, you have to create a web page

There is no way to measure the quality of a service without using it, and for our web providers, this meant that we had to create a website and host it on each of the providers on the list. Of course, it would have to be a standardized website. In this way, the results of our tests vary only depending on the quality of the supplier. 

We decided to create a page to promote a product. Although our page and product were fake, we made sure to include all the features you would expect from a modern promotional page, such as HD images, motion effects, and more. 

We decided to create a site promoting the brand “nutritionistica,” the future of health and vitamins. Of course, nutritionistica doesn’t exist, but that makes it only slightly less fake than most brands on the markets. What exactly does it offer? Where can I get it? It’s up to you to know, but we make sure to create the most attractive and complete page possible to promote them. 

By pretending to be a real project, we were able to better analyze whether the web hosting providers’ promises were real or just smoke without it being too obvious that we were scrutinizing their service. 

We created the same website on each hosting provider with the same WordPress theme in order to analyze loading speed, possible server outages and possible installation errors, and we contacted support to communicate incidents and observe their way of resolving them. 

For this, we make sure to use tools external to the provider. In this way, we obtain the most accurate results possible. To test the loading speed of our standardized page, we used GTMetrix and created a constant monitoring loop every hour. To test uptime (how long our website stays online without crashes) we use the always reliable UptimeRobot. Finally, we use the Sucuri Load Time Tester tool to monitor international loading times.

Results and analysis: host comparison

Choosing the best web hosting among the ten companies analyzed has been a long and complex job since almost all of them offer a good service – several even an exceptional one. In addition, almost all of them offer different hosting packages that are interesting for all types of users and adapted to all types of needs, from online stores to websites of small or medium-sized businesses or bloggers. 

To classify hosting, we evaluate the following 10 aspects: 

1. Server stability (uptime) : the period of time during which the server remains active without crashing. Of all the tools available in the market, we use UptimeRobot. 

While most of the hosting providers we analyzed proved to have good stability (as you can see in the table below), several experienced downturns – including some of the most popular ones.