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Here is a hosting company that is close to my heart, for sure.

Although they only offer a flat hosting plan, with no choices for upgrading, they do get an honorable mention. They sponsor the Toys for Tots charity for needy children.

For $4.95, An Hosting offers 500 GB of storage and 5 GB per month for bandwidth. This is a bit more than most low-cost hosts offer. They offer a host of goodies on each account, including free domain for life, unlimited e-mail accounts, unlimited FTP accounts, unlimited MySQL account, and a torrent of other extras such as e-commerce tools, etc.

The unlimited FTP accounts is my favorite feature of them all. If you need a large number of FTP accounts, you can do that here. Why would you want to have an unlimited number of FTP accounts? Say, for example, you have a client-base of 5000. You could create a little program which takes a certain amount of data and uploads it to an FTP server for off-site storage. This could be offered to your 5000 clients as a paid service… such as “For only $9.99 per month, upload your Quickbooks Database file to our secure servers every night.” So, every time you sign a client up for this service, you can create an FTP account for them, plug the information into the little program, point it to the Quickbooks files, and your done. That’s $9.99 in recurring income, every month from each of your clients.

The customer support staff at An Hosting is very helpful when you get them on the phone, and I am usually able get to a live person fairly quickly. I have only had to wait on hold a few times, but on those occasions the wait was over 30 minutes.

One thing that you might be interested in is that An Hosting backs up client data for you. This is a huge piece of mind when you have valuable data on a web host. Personally, I think that you should always have your own back-up of the most important information, but it is nice to know that someone else is looking out for your data too.

Unfortunately, An Hosting doesn’t offer dedicated hosting, or co-located server options, but the shared hosting is pretty good. If you are looking for a company with unlimited FTP account, unlimited e-mail accounts, and/or unlimited MySQL accounts, An Hosting may be the just the hosting company for you.

The only way that you can know if a host is right for you is to try it yourself. Since all of the hosts on this list offer a 30-day money-back guarantee, you have nothing to lose. Go to the An Hosting home page, open an account, and try it for yourself.