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4th of July is Independence Day in United States. Plenty of web hosting companies looking for an opportunity to run a promo is using this opportunity to give great discounts.

I’ve listed some of the best promos below. If you find any other promos, you’re very welcome to add them in the comments.

Site5 have a new Total Freedom plan with unlimited webspace, unlimited bandwidth and unlimited websites for as low as $5/month ($9.95/month if you sign up for 12 months, but the discount increases the more months you prepay for). And you can still use our Site5 coupon PROMOCODENET to save an additional $20 instantly.

FatCow’s Summer Sale has become a 4th of July promo. Same deal though: 25% off (now $66/year) their great One Fat Plan.

HostICan also offers 25% off with the coupon independence-24. Our own HostICan coupon promo-12 gives you $50 off though, which is better in most cases. Use our coupon if you signup for a Base-Host plan (12 or 24 months) or the 12-month Tera-Host plan. Use the independence coupon if you sign up for the 24-month Tera-Host plan.

Finally PowWeb is running a PowWeb Freedom Sale: Pay for six months and get 6 months free. That’s less than $47/year.

All offers ends midnight the 4th of July, so you’ll have to sign up today to take advantage of these offers.

Royal Pingdom has a great analysis of how five of the most popular web hosting companies has grown from April 2005 to December 2007.

They compare the web hosting companies by looking at how many domain names they each have on their DNS servers and how these numbers have changed over time.

The five web hosting companies are:

1. DreamHost (625,470 domains)
2. iPower / iPowerWeb (414,788 domains)
3. BlueHost (374,965 domains)
4. HostGator (299,463 domains)
5. Site5 (64,737 domains)

DreamHost is leading the pack with more than 600,000 domains, while HostGator and BlueHost have had the greatest percentage-wise increase. iPower started out having most domains, but is now only number 2, and will probably be overtaken by Bluehost within the next 3 months. Site5 is fantastically respected and well known, compared to how few customers they actually have.

Pingdom also looks at the month-to-month growth, which shows that iPower had a surge in customers in the beginning of 2006, when they had a very aggressive domain promo. Until recently DreamHost had the biggest monthly growth, but actually it looks like BlueHost in currently the fastest growing host of the five.

Read the full article at Pingdom to see the graph of monthly growth and read their thorough analysis.

If you were too busy with all your holiday shopping to take advantage of some of the great holiday offers you now get a second chance.

• AN Hosting and midPhase have prolonged their Holiday Sale to the 15th of January 2008.
• HostGator’s Holiday Sale still let you get 20% off everything until January 1st.
• Site5 has just launched a 2008 Special - Get the Plan to End All Plans for only $5/month.

This might be the last post of the year so Happy New Year everyone!

Just a quick reminder that Halloween is approaching and both the Site5 Halloween Coupons and the AN Hosting Halloween Promo will expire in less than 24 hours.

	Site5’s promo gives you 13% discount with the coupon HALLOWEEN2007 and works with any plan (both shared and reseller hosting) and any length (1, 3, 6, 12 or 24 month).
	AN Hosting has gone crazy the last day of the promotion. They now offer triple disk space (750 GB), triple bandwidth (7500 GB) and triple domains (60 domains) to everyone signing up within the next 24 hours.