Business Web hosts are measured by their features and reliability for business users, and the Business Web Hosting Awards is one of a series of Web Hosting Awards which bring you the pick of the best and most popular Web hosting sites on the Net today. Not surprising is the fact that some of the same hosts appear both here and in the Popular Web Hosting Awards because in some respects the market requirements can be similar, but here they are ranked here for their qualities as business hosts.

  Yahoo! Web Hosting   The No.1 global Internet brand, and the Internet's leading global business services company Yahoo!, is also one of the leading suppliers of Web hosting for businesses and professionals.
Their Web hosting packages are very well featured, with large amounts of disk space and data transfer included as standard. But the features that set Yahoo! apart come in their package of easy-to-use tools and infrastructure that allow you to build a professional web site for your business, like the Yahoo! SiteBuilder software.
As well as the traditional methods of publishing a Web site Yahoo! offers their SiteBuilder 2.0 program which comes with a large number of customizable templates, or allows you to design your own with it's easy-to-use tools. This exceptional tool allows anyone, even without experience, to build a highly professional Web site.
All Yahoo!'s Web hosting plans include an email management function called Business Mail, which features 2 GB of storage per address and virus and spam protection. All their hosting packages include a generous amount of email addresses as standard.
With an eye to the future, Yahoo!'s Web hosting packages offer the flexibility to change plans at any time to meet evolving business needs. You can move between packages in a product line (such as moving between hosting packages), or change product lines completely (such as moving from Web Hosting to Merchant Solutions).
Well featured packages, professional results from easy to use tools, and a high degree of flexibility is what has put Yahoo! Web hosting at the top of the list for many businesses, and has made them one of the leading suppliers of Web hosting in this sector.

Verio is one of the most popular global Web hosts in the consumer field, and is also a leader in the field of business Web hosting. More companies around the world choose them to put their business online than any other hosting company world-wide.
This means stability and predictability for those who house their Web sites there. And it also means they have access to a range of products and services which are second to none.
Verio's business accounts start with their Silver Plan which includes 300 MB diskspace and 10 GB of monthly data transfer and can be upgraded throughout their range as far as a dedicated server, should your needs grow.

Hosting.com host businesses of all sizes and requirements, from shared hosting solutions to the dedicated servers required by larger corporate accounts.
The majority of business Web sites are shared solutions, with dedicated servers still being the domain of large companies.
Their shared UNIX solutions are quite different from the traditional approach to shared hosting in that each account has it's own Apache server and is, to all intents and purposes, quite separate to the other accounts on the same machine. Most Web hosting companies will offer you Web hosting as a virtual host rather than a true virtual server. One of the main differences is the amount of control the user has over the Web server. With these accounts you have complete control over the configuration of your virtual server through your own Apache Web server. This gives complete control of a Web site and allows a number of advantages like the ability to control subdomains.
The interface which controls it all, their proprietary WebSiteManager™, makes simple work of what would otherwise be quite complex tasks.
These accounts start with their Option 1 for $39 a month with 100 MB of disk space and 10GB of monthly traffic and are ecommerce enabled.

There is a considerable amount of competition in the field of business Web hosting though, with a number of excellent Web hosts now competing in this huge new market.  

These Web hosts that make up the business Web Hosting Top 20 are in some respects quite diverse with product offerings being quite varied and different. For that reason it is probably worthwhile looking through the whole list of Web hosts, because a different organization's offering may be just the niche that suits you best.

I hope the business Web hosting top 20 takes you to what you are looking for in your search for the right host. And if it was useful to you please remember to bookmark the page, it may be the only business web hosting reference you'll ever need. 

The Ed