Based in San Francisco,CA, Laughing Squid was founded in 1998. Laughing Squid is an independent web hosting provider offering services to clients around the world. The company has additional offices in New York and Portland. In addition to standard web hosting plans, in April of 2009 Laughing Squid has launched cloud hosting services. Cloud hosting allows for data being stored on cluster servers instead of traditional stand along servers many web hosting providers still employ. The cloud hosting solutions provide better reliability while at the same time reducing the down times and improves the performance of the websites that tend to have unpredictable spikes in traffic.

Laughing Squid Cloud Hosting Plans

Mega Squid	Ultra Squid	Super Squid
Price: $8/month	Price: $12/month	Price: $16/month
2 GB of disk space	3 GB of disk space	4 GB of disk space
75 GB of monthly bandwidth	150 GB of monthly bandwidth	200 GB of monthly bandwidth
1000 compute cycles* per month	1500 compute cycles per month	2000 compute cycles per month
3 MySQL databases	5 MySQL databases	5 MySQL databases

Laughing Squid Hosting Plans

Tiny Squid	Basic Squid	Giant Squid
Price: $8/month	Price: $11/Month	Price: $14/month
300 MB of disk space	600 MB of disk space	1 GB of disk space
20 GB of monthly bandwidth	40 GB of monthly bandwidth	150 MB of email storage
1 MySQL database	2 MySQL databases	3 MySQL databases
5 email accounts	20 email accounts	30 email accounts

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As was promised in the previous post for earlier today, I present to you another list of top ten web hosting providers. As you can see the list below is quiet different. I strongly suggest that neither lists should be seen as a deciding factor before you purchase your web hosting. You should take your time to do your own research. Unlike any other purchase, when buying web hosting services, you are going to be “married” to your web host for quiet some time.
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It is the end of the year and of course it is time to tally and share with our readers the results. This year, 2009, was he busiest year for this blog of all its lifetime. I would like to take this opportunity and thank every one who stopped by our blog, left a review or shared our blogs with their friends!

Today I would like to publish two “Top 10″ lists. The list below is the top ten web hosting providers as voted by our readers. Later in the day we will publish “Top10″ list chosen by editors. Both lists are quiet different due to the different criteria used to select web hosting providers for the “editor’s choice” list.
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