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A2Hosting: 67% off Shared Website Hosting

A2Hosting is one of my favorites. This web hosting option is for you only if you are after real performance and speed! Have you heard about Turbo? It’s A2Hosting’s premium plan for webmasters who fixate on speed and performance.

Turbo servers include:

• Equipped with SwiftServer SSDs
• APC caching
• Faster Connections
• Enhanced stability guaranteed
• Servers not overloaded
• Less CPU and memory usage than Apache

A2Hosting is offering some great Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals! Their sale is a great option if you are looking for more than just basic website hosting because they are offering deep discounts on both their managed hosting and VPS. To take advantage of these deals, simply enter these coupon codes at checkout.

Deals:

• Shared Hosting ($1.98/mo) & Managed WordPress – 67% off with code: SAVEBIG
• Managed VPS & Core VPS – 50% off with code: BLKVPS
• Reseller Hosting – 40% off with code: BLKSELL
• Select SSD Dedicated Servers – 50% off with code: 50DEDI

Regularly priced at $49.99, this is definitely the best discount on managed web hosting. With their Core VPS hosting package you will get:

• Root Access
• Optional cPanel License
• 75 GB storage
• 2 TB transfer
• 4 GB RAM

Both their shared hosting (starting at $3.92) and their VPS hosting (starting at $5.00 a month) have some impressive features. Adding these great coupons, and you’re sure to be thrilled!

The sale ends Monday at midnight, so hurry up and grab these coupons before they are gone!

Bluehost: $2.65 Instead of the Usual $6.95

BlueHost is the other one that offers excellent promotional discounts this time of the year. We don’t know much here either, but it’s going to be huge for sure.

They have announced the discounts on Thursday, 11/24.

They are running better promos than last year (when they had some of the best deals). They are offering a 60%+ discount. That means you are able to buy hosting for $2.65 instead of the usual $6.95.

Update:

In addition to the 60% discount on hosting, BlueHost is offering a 50% discount on domain names. Starting Friday, November 24th at 12 am MT, BlueHost is offering their hosting services for as low as $2.65/month.

What’s the Best Bluehost Deal?

• $2.65/mo shared web hosting
• Free domain registration and transfer
• Free site builder with templates
• Free $100 credit with Google Adwords
• 99% uptime guarantee
• 24/7 live customer support
• 30-day full money back guarantee if you are not satisfied

This exclusive offer will end at midnight on Monday the 28th, so make sure to take advantage of this sale before time runs out.

Inmotion Hosting: 50% Discount on Business Hosting

InMotion is one of my personal favorites for quality. That’s where I’m hosting my mission critical websites that are important. InMotion is perfect for small businesses. They are known for having a reliable uptime, easy-to-use website building software, and their impressive features including dozens of e-commerce options. If you are looking for a hosting company for your small business, InMotion is a perfect choice.

This Friday until Monday, InMotion will offer a 50% discount rate on their business web hosting.

With their business hosting packages starting at $3.49, this is a great offer for any small business. Their packages include:

• Free SSD Drives included
• Free domain name and transfer
• Free data backups (very important!)

InMotion is rated number one in website transfers and customer support & satisfaction. They also offer the highest satisfaction guarantee in the industry.

I swear by InMotion. If you are looking for a serious website hosting company, learn more about this excellent web host.

So make sure to take advantage of this great deal before time runs out, and the sale ends at midnight on Cyber Monday!

Godaddy: WordPress Hosting for $1/month

This year GoDaddy offers:

• WordPress hosting for $1/month
• Domain registration for $0.99
• 33% off all new product orders
• 25% off standard SSL certification

GoDaddy, the big old GoDaddy! They will surely join the bunch in 2018 too. Last year they had great discounts both for hosting and domains.

They are the world’s biggest domains sellers. They won’t go easy on the competition. 2018 coupons will get you 50-60% off new domain registrations and new hosting packages.

You can buy domains for as low as $0.99. That’s not all; you can get 30% off of new reseller accounts. And if you take security seriously, you can buy SSL certificates for 25% less than usual.

$1/month Web Hosting

That’s right. You can get web hosting for a year at GoDaddy for as tiny a fee as $12. That’s if you pay annually.

Update:

GoDaddy has just announced their Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals for 2018 and boy are they impressive!

They will also be offering special limited time partner pop-up deals, so make sure to check our website routinely throughout the weekend for coupons for add-ons and other feature services.

These deals will expire at midnight on Monday! If you’d like to take advantage of these discounted rates, make sure to add the coupon codes during checkout.

Dreamhost: 50% off Malware Protection

Dreamhost has been around since 1996 and is known for their quick speed and reliable uptime, WordPress hosting, and their ecommerce features. It’s a great hosting option for people who run a small business.

I was hesitant to try Dreamhost for quite a while but when I reviewed them and was pleasantly surprised by the improvements. They offer a great basic web hosting platform that is fast and reliable, but best of all affordable. Adding some discounts to their already low prices makes it an even better choice.

Starting on Black Friday and running until midnight on Monday, Dreamhost is offering one of the best web hosting deals: a 50% off coupon for hosting with a free domain.

What’s Dreamhost Offering This Black Friday?

• 50% off deal
• Unmetered storage space
• Unmetered bandwidth
• 24/7 network monitoring
• Unlimited domain names

With their plans starting as low as $5.50 per month, a flat 50% discount is a fantastic deal! They also have no contract and no hidden fees, so it will only cost you $2.75 period. Take advantage this sale while it lasts.

FatCow: 60% Off

FatCow is also at the top of my list. They are one of the best, most affordable website hosting companies on the market. They run promotions all year long. But Black Friday and Cyber Monday hold a great opportunity to get hosting even for a lower price.

Update:

This year FatCow is offering 60% off their shared website hosting plan. Their starting price is $49 per year, and with a discount as deep as this, you can save a lot of money.

With the FatCow Plan you will receive these great features:

• Free domain name or transfer
• $100 Google AdWords and Bing ad credits
• 1 GB Cloud storage
• Unlimited disk space
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Unlimited POP mailboxes

FatCow specializes in hosting options for small to medium businesses. They are part of the Endurance International Group just like BlueHost and HostGator, so you will also get the expertise of a leader in web hosting services. They have decent uptime, offer easy scalability, and a 30-day money-back guarantee if you are not satisfied.

If you are looking for a great deal for your small or medium business, take advantage of this offer. Hurry though, it expires midnight on Monday so you’ll need to act quickly.

iPage: 80% Off Hosting

iPage is a long-standing web hosting company. If you are looking for a web hosting company with lots of third-party application options, look no further! iPage is the ideal web host for you! They have one-click installation for a wide range of content management systems, blogs, photo galleries, and forum options. Plus, they offer customer support for all their applications, so if you ever get stuck, they can help you out!

This Friday iPage is offering a range of discounts on their web hosting packages that can save you up to 83% depending on the service you choose.

With all of their hosting packages, iPage offers:

• Unlimited disk space
• Scalable bandwidth
• Unlimited domain names
• $100 Google Adwords and Bing ad Credit
• Toll-free phone number

They are also a perfect hosting service for businesses, advanced website building tools, a range of e-commerce features, and plenty of customer support. They are an excellent option for anyone a little more sophisticated and wanting to start an eBusiness site. They are also known for having an impressive VPS service and excellent customer support.

So make sure that you take advantage of this great deal. The offer ends at midnight on Monday!

GreenGeeks: 2.95/mo for 36 Months

If you are looking for true green web hosting, GreenGeeks is here for you! The eco-friendly hosting company GreenGeeks will be offering 50% off their shared hosting plans this Black Friday.

Beyond the comfort of hosting with an environmentally-friendly company, GreenGeeks also offers:

• Unlimited domains
• Free website migration and domain transfer
• Unlimited web space & data transfer
• Free marketing and SEO tools
• 99.9% Guaranteed uptime

At a starting price of $2.95 per month, with this deep discount, GreenGeeks is a great low price option for website hosting that also offers carbon neutral business model.

Beyond offering great features, the best part about choosing GreenGeeks is that you will be doing the environment a favor. GreenGeeks is the leader in environmentally-friendly website hosting. To learn more about how they’ve been able to offer quality service at low prices while still providing an eco-friendly option, you can read about their eco-initiative.

So if you want to support an environmentally-friendly company, grab this deal!

Siteground: Save 70%!

SiteGround is one of the most prominent of the web hosting companies. They have extreme technical skills, and their platform performance is one of the best. Don’t miss their Deals! Last year they ran 70% off deals. You can’t get that any other time of the year.

What’s included in Siteground’s Cyber Monday Deal?

• 75% off all annual shared hosting plans
• Free website builder
• Free setup and website transfer
• Free daily data backup
• Unlimited emails and databases
• Free Let’s Encrypt SSLs
• Free CloudFlare CDN

Update:

SiteGround’s discount is seriously impressive. They are offering a flat 75% off their shared web hosting plans with free domain names. Starting at $3.95 a month, with no hidden fees, this is an extremely affordable deal.

SiteGround is known for its impressive array of security features, excellent customer service, and high uptime standards. One of the best benefits of SiteGround is that it lets customers choose their server location. They are a great web hosting company if you are looking to build a site that needs to scale up in the future.

Plus, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. So if you aren’t happy, you can always cancel your plan. So you have nothing to lose by taking advantage of this notable discount.

WebHostingHub: 56% Off

WebHostingHub is the name for high standard small business web hosting. The team behind the name is the same as InMotion hosting. So if you know InMotion, you pretty much already know what to expect from WebHostingHub. They are definitely in my top 10 list when I think of hosting companies. For HostingManual visitors, we have some very special pricing. Just click on the link and you will be taken to that special page.

With WebHostingHub you’ll get all the hosting features you need, plus some unique features such as:

• Free domain registration
• Free SSD storage
• Free premium web builder
• Personalized on-boarding
• $250 in free ad credits with Google, Bing, and Yahoo

WebHostingHub is also a great option if you are looking for a green hosting company. They built the first green data center in Los Angeles and reduced their carbon output by 70%. If you’re interested learning more about their eco-friendly website hosting, you can read more about their green initiatives.

The best part about WebHostingHub is that even their highest quality premium package Dynamo is entirely affordable. You’ll experience lightning speeds, excellent customer service, and all that features you could want, all while still being friendly to your wallet!

So check out my detailed review and special customer pricing before the sale ends!

HostPapa: $300 in Bonuses

HostPapa is an excellent website host for people just starting out. They offer tons of free helpful step-by-step tutorials and extremely affordable add-ons, making it a breeze for anyone newbie to building a great website. Plus, they offer unlimited monthly data transfers with every plan, so they are well worth the price.

Starting on Friday, through to Monday, HostPapa is offering web hosting from $1 along with $300 in extras.

HostPapa has put together a massive deal for new customers this Black Friday, with web hosting deals starting as low as $1/month!

In addition to this Friday discount, the offer includes one free domain name and access to HostPapa’s website builder. During this limited time offer, customers who purchase web hosting from HostPapa will also be entitled to:

• 1 SSL Certificate for just $1 (save $25)
• $200 in free ad credits

Plus, anyone who signs up during this period will also enjoy the many perks of being a valued HostPapa customer, including:

• Free domain registration
• Unlimited disk space & bandwidth
• 30-day money-back guarantee
• 24/7 multilingual support

Hurry, this exclusive offer ends Cyber Monday at midnight. Click here to get this limited time offer now!

HostGator: Up to 65% Off with $5.99 select Domains

HostGator offers the most prominent discounts traditionally, and in my experience, they are the favorite among shoppers. Last year they offered their hosting packages for less than half the price, domains for close to nothing. I am curious what are they going to put together this year. One thing is for sure. They won’t let us down!

Last year’s sales started early on Thanksgiving and extended throughout the Black Friday weekend and into Cyber Monday. In 2018 I’m expecting a similar scenario.

What we already know, is that they will offer the best deal of 2018: 75% off from individual packages.

HostGator Fire Sales

Last year HostGator had so-called fire sales. That means that in specific timeframes you can buy at the best price. Taking last year as an example, here is how it happened:

Update:

HostGator starts the Cyber Weekend sales at 12 am CST with a 80% Off Flash Sale! It will last one hour, and when that ends at 1 am CST, the promotion will move to 65% off.

Throughout the weekend they will be running another nine, one hour Fire Sales. There will be four Fire Sales on Black Friday, one on Saturday, one on Sunday, and another four on Cyber Monday. The Cyber Weekend promotions will end on Monday, November 28, at 11:59 pm CST.

During non-fire sale times one could still buy 65% off new hosting packages and $5.99/year domains throughout the whole weekend.

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Namecheap: 98% Off

Just like last year, we are expecting Namecheap to run some pretty incredible web hosting and domain deals. If you don’t already know Namecheap, they are one of the biggest domain registrars, and they have also started to offer web hosting service recently. They are on the cheaper side, but the service is top-notch.

What Deals Can We Expect from Namecheap?

• Hourly deals of up to 98%
• Domain registration discounts
• SLL sale
• Web Hosting Discounts

You don’t need a coupon with Namecheap. Just click on the Activate link in the table or here.

Namesilo

Namesilo is my personal favorite besides Namecheap. In fact, they are much cheaper than Namecheap, and they have free domain privacy. They have also started a domain name marketplace not long ago that might be interesting for some folks who are thinking about selling their domains down the line.

In 2018 they did announce two coupon codes that you can use on November 24th:

• BLACKFRIDAY2018REG – $6.99 .com domain registrations
• BLACKFRIDAY2018TRANS – $7.55 domain transfers

Both are limited to 5 uses per customer and 2000 total redemptions. If you think you will keep your domain name for more than one year, then Namesilo is a better option (in spite of Namecheap offering a much lower price upfront, but it’s more expensive on the long run).

Choosing the Right Web Host

With the growth of the hosting industry a lot of “one man shows” are popping up all over the place. Someone decides to start a small hosting company, and it’s usually run by one to two people to keep costs down. There are a lot of downfalls associated with small web hosts like these, on the other hand, there are a lot of good things about them also.

When running a small hosting company (that is normally owned and operated by one to two people), it’s a great way to start a small company and generate a good amount of profits. But with a little business, the cons outweigh the pros. There are few things to take into consideration when finding that perfect host. There are a lot of companies out there that pull many scams to gain more money from their customers.

Service & Support

Many users (myself included) go for cheaper hosting because it’s cheaper, of course. We are on a Black Friday Deals page after all. But there are plenty of things to keep in mind when getting service from a company that offers bottom prices for unlimited hosting.

With smaller hosting companies or those that offer very cheap hosting. Service is usually the first thing that goes. With these “one-man shows” it’s just how it sounds. One person runs it, sometimes two. With a “one-man show” a few different things suffer concerning the type of service they may offer. The first to go usually is support, especially if they offer very low prices.

The old saying goes “you get what you pay for.” Just keep this in mind when searching for a host. Remember that if it’s too good to be true, then it’s probably not true. A lot of these small companies aren’t bad to go with though. Just do a little research about the company, try a few different things before signing up.

Ask to talk with other clients of theirs to get their opinion on the company’s service. Send them emails from time to time at different times of the day to find out how quick their response time is. If they offer phone support test the number out, find out if their support team is knowledgeable and will be able to handle anything that comes their way.

Most of the cheaper hosting companies will not offer any phone support though; most of the support is done through emails. Find out if they have any other kind of support system, like an FAQ section or something similar to that. Most smaller hosting companies will use forums to offer support, which is a lot better than just an email address. They do this so that questions from the past are searchable for everyone. That can take some stress off their support staff.

Overselling

Overselling refers to a hosting company selling more resources than they currently have. This usually is what hosting companies and other similar companies do. A lot of the “one man shows” use this and often extend more than needed.

The company will sell more space or bandwidth than what is allocated to them monthly. Which for the most part isn’t a bad idea and isn’t wrong to do. But a lot of these “one-man shows” that are trying to make the extra buck will overextend themselves to fit more clients on one server.

In most cases a user will only use a percentage of what they pay for monthly, in a few cases clients will use more. Most servers will handle hundreds of clients without breaking a sweat. A lot of these smaller companies will pack a lot more on a server and normally get away with it.

This means that the server will be sluggish, slow response times, page loads, and so on.

While cheap hosting is great for smaller sites that don’t need a lot of support and extra services to run, it’s awful for companies that rely on the server and need extras to make their business and sites run correctly.

Most hosting companies, unfortunately, do not utilize any backup system, so if the server has a hard drive failure, the information is pretty much lost unless the client has a back-up of it.

Most users won’t need the extra service and support that these smaller companies can’t handle. So keep in mind what you need and what will you sacrifice if you go for cheap hosting.

Choosing the Right Domain Name

It’s Cyber Weekend, and you want to jump in and register a bunch of domains. I understand. But you should still pay attention to certain things. The art of choosing a new domain name is complicated, going much deeper than this little Black Friday article could aspire to.

However, most people can break their domain name needs down into one of two camps:

• search-engine friendly, or
• memorable and “human”-brandable.

Search Engine Friendly

This type of domain has several advantages. Not the least is that you can probably get a suitable domain for no more than the cost of registration. Longish domains with hyphens are perfectly acceptable to search engines. And when they turn up on the search page, they’re even human-readable. Sure, they might be hard to remember or fit on a business card, but that may not be necessary to your purpose.

Human-Brandable

This type of name can get a lot more expensive. Short and pithy dot-com names have largely left the building — years ago, actually. Any name with an air of utility or traffic tends to be snapped up by more-or-less sophisticated speculators using a phalanx of high-tech “drop” services.

Still, if you browse the domain discussion boards, you can see a lot of names going in the $50-300K range. The trick is finding domains that might fit your needs among all these scattered places.

There are a lot of domain ideas sites out there. If you search on Google, you will find many.