Summer is when a lot of my webhosting bills come due – my personal ones and those I do for friends’ small businesses.  This is because summer is when I have time to sit and design websites. As it is time for one of those friends dues, I’ve been evaluating providers. I try to do this each time hosting fees are due in order to make sure we are still getting a good deal.

This time I came across a new company that I had never considered – Concentric. Concentric is a hosting service that focuses on small business hosting. For me personally, that is not a big deal, but because the other sites I maintain are actually for small family owned businesses, I thought I’d check them out. So what makes them different than other providers? For only a dollar a month (so $12 a year) than what we are paying now, they provide some interesting features like spam/virus filtering, 80 email addresses, and some interesting tools and applications including easy installation of WordPress, wiki, and a bulletin board.

I’m not sure if any of you that read my blog are small business owners, but I thought I’d share as I have forwarded this information on to my friends so they can look over it and give it thought.