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Have a look at our list of the best dedicated hosts in California

Whether you already have a business in California and want to harness the power of the Internet to make it better, or you're interested in forming some kind of web-based business from California, you're going to need a server to host your web pages. California has a large population of Internet users and there are many effective web hosting companies that you can find in California to meet your web hosting needs, but first you need to decide what kind of web hosting you want.

Rank	Plan	Price
1	Pentium Dual Core 2.0GHz	$199.95	Sign up now Read review
2	Dedicated Hosting	$129.00	Sign up now Read review
3	Dedicated I	$90.66	Sign up now Read review
4	Intel 3.0GHz	$49.95	Sign up now Read review
5	Pentium 2.4 Ghz	$160.00	Sign up now Read review

Web Servers in Oakland, San Jose or San Diego

Any big city in California is a good place to start looking for your perfect web server. Oakland is part of the Bay Area that is the sixth most heavily populated metropolitan area in the U.S. That means a lot of web surfers and the potential for some great web hosting opportunities. If you're looking for a web host a little further south but still part of the Bay Area, you might choose web hosting in San Jose, the capital of Silicon Valley, the home of high technology. If your website has a Southern California vibe, head down to San Diego to look for web hosting. You can check out your web hosting options for these and many other cities by simply navigating through the top list.

Choosing the Right Web Server Type in California

Once you've found your web hosting company, you will have to decide how you want your site to be hosted. A budget web hosting service will allow you to feature your web pages on a server that is shared with other websites. While you will not use the whole server, you should have plenty of bandwidth for what you need unless you are a very large organization, and the server is partitioned so other companies cannot use your part of the server.

California Dedicated Servers

For a large or growing California company, or ones concerned about bandwidth or response time, the solution may be a dedicated server. This means that the web host uses an entire server just to host your company's web pages. This will prevent your IP address from being blocked by people looking to lock out a different company on the server and will prevent any drain on your bandwidth or response time. This is a considerably more expensive option, so you should ask yourself if you really need it before making the investment. If you aren't ready for a dedicated server yet, you can always move to one later as your business grows.