The web hosting marketplace is cutthroat. That’s the only word for it. It’s a dog-eat-dog environment and comparison shoppers know it. They expect more for less from web hosts.

Example? WebsiteSource.com is one of the premier hosting companies out there. It offers a box full of goodies for new site owners free, 24/7 client care (US-based, no less) and now, they’re increasing storage and bandwidth making them the most competitive hosting company on the web – completely smashing the old market price structure in the process.

A little background for the uninitiated: start-ups usually start up with a shared hosting plan, one in which the client (you) shares server disk space with up to 1200 other companies. Shared hosting is low-cost, often less than $7.00 per month on a subscription basis.

So, here’s the deal: your new on-line venture rents a little bit of server space called storage space, measured in gigabytes. Obviously, the more GB you get the more you can do with your site in terms of bells and whistles.

A bit more background: with all of these on-line companies based on a single server, there are sometimes “bandwidth” issues. Bandwidth determines the speed at which visitors interact with a website. Sites with “heavy” home pages take longer to download, and if there are a couple of bandwidth hogs on your host server, visitors will see a slower response time when trying to reach your site. And web surfers are not a patient group.

WebsiteSource.com just upped the ante big time. Their “All-in-One” entry level packages increased storage from 50 GB to 350 GB with no boost in monthly fees. The company also increased bandwidth from 750 GB to 3,500 GB. That means faster downloads for your customers and faster transactions for you – the commercial site owner.

This basic web hosting package also enables site owners to run unlimited websites, giving start-ups even more opportunities to win the web store sweepstakes. It also allows you to spread the risk by launching more than one site, without paying extra bucks for disk space.

The point here is simple: As the hosting market becomes more and more competitive, it drives down subscription prices while encouraging hosts, like WebsiteSoure.com, to offer the most for the least. It’s the free market system in action and as site owners, we all benefit.

You can shop around, but right now no web host has broken the hosting price barriers the way Austin-based WebsiteSource.com has. The others will eventually fall in line, but if you think big and want to build big, Website Source offers the best hosting deal on the web.