If you've read even one article about what to look for in a web hosting plans (or more likely these days read several articles that just re-stated that one article!) you will see that they blather on and on about the importance of a feature like Wordpress over another feature like Joomla or how important bandwidth, storage space and many other plan items are to the future success of your website. What these articles completely disregard is how utterly unimportant these features are to the average person looking to get a web hosting account.
The main difference between Basic Plans and Advanced Plans isn't th e features it's the webmaster who will use those features. Even a basic plan for beginners contains many features that an advanced webmaster will want and use. The key is to know how to use these features.
Most beginners could care less about knowing what MySql or PHP is. They just want a website that looks good and advertises their business. Some of the more adventurous new webmasters might explore some of the plan offerings like subdomains or content management but for the most part they will use only a small amount of the features provided by a webhost. For example, a new webmaster may only use the host's website builder or they may use the Wordpress blog builder feature. That is likely all they want or need. All the other features are meaningless to them.
So, what does all of this mean? It means that if you are a beginner don't waste your time comparing plans and packages as almost all web hosts these days offer the same features. Instead, focus more on other aspects of the web host such as reliability, speed of servers and whether they have the features you know that you need.
What about reviews? At this point reviews are basically worthless as so many can be bought or a competitor can launch negative attacks so you can never be sure if a good review is really a good review or a bad review is a real bad review. Instead, ask around. See who your family and friends use for their web hosting company. What has been their experience? Do they like the service? Hate it? That is a much better guide to figuring out what web host to go with. As I mentioned earlier, if you are new to all this website builder stuff almost ANY web hosting plan you go with will have what you need to create your website and upload it to the internet.
One last note of caution - while it doesn't matter what web host you go with as their offerings will almost always be very similar don't go with a web host that is too cheap. They will usually have a bunch of extra fees that you don't know about when you sign up or their service will be so bad that you will want to leave. The normal price for a web hosting account is in the $5/month to $10/month range. Usually if you get a plan or hosting package in that range it will be a decent web host.
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