You
always need inputs when you are trying to decide on whom to web host your dream
site. Making a decision is not very simple because sometimes a web site may be
directly responsible for your livelihood.
Even if it is
not, web sites are considered very important these days and you don't want
to go with some unreliable web hosting company.
Make your own
decision when choosing a provider.
However we
would like to advise you to trust only your intuitions about a web hosting
facility and your decision
must be based on the evaluation you have done yourself.
Use these tools,
sites to evaluate a web host.
Use the tools mentioned in this topic only to
gather your parameters for evaluation because we have had experience where
even after thorough evaluation we faced problems with the web host.
Web hosting review sites can be
beneficial for your evaluation. At least you can get a good level of data
from these sites. The best among these review sites are listed here in this
page along with other aspects of hosting review sites.
Astonishing number
of web hosting review sites!
On the
Internet if you try to search using key phrase "web hosting review" you will be
confronted with thousands of review sites alone. Every other site is a
review site. Hence we have listed a few we found making better sense and
found to have established popularity.
Common features of
all web hosting review sites.
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They provide a database
for visitors to search for web hosts on the basis of various parameters like
disk space, transfer rate etc..
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They are both meant for
clients as well as hosting companies.
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Hosting companies use
them to list them and to advertise in them. Hosting clients use them to find
the web hosts and to review them.
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Their trustworthiness is
always in question as they stand for both web hosting clients and providers.
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For a person new to web
hosting, they must have some place to start their review.
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The web hosting review
sites we discuss here are a good place to start your web hosting review.
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Tophosts.com - Tophosts is a long
time striving web hosting review site. They are popular and trusted by
potential clients. They publish news, features, articles and analyze web
hosting facilities in detail.
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Thewhir.com -
Whir is 'Web Host Industry Review'
and has been publishing analysis of the web hosting companies. They are
also a magazine that come in printed format.
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Hostsearch.com - They are
established since 1997. They maintain a database and provide the review
information to those who are doing a search on their site. They claims to
have introduced the idea of searching for a web host by 'price' and 'disk
space'. This has now become the standard for searching for a web host.
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Webhostdir.com - They maintain a
database of web hosting companies so that the visitors can perform search
against their database on the basis of various parameters. This is the
same model being followed by most of the review sites we have consulted.
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| Findahost.com
- As their title says, you find them to find a web hosting facility.
They provide a database for the visitors to search. Findahost
provides
its users a "one click" search of reliable and timely information for
locating and comparing web hosting companies, dedicated server plans and
co-location providers, isp and asp providers, website developers, tech
jobs, cgi and java scripts, and a variety of business and desktop related
downloads.
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| Ratemyhost.com
- They are established in the year 2002. They have a web hosting rating
system where they allow customers to share their experience with web
hosting companies. This helps other potential clients to find out
offhand what other customers are feeling about a particular host.
They also provide a search feature for web host seekers on the basis of
price, features etc.. Customers can use their rating and reviews to find
the reputation of a company which can be critical information for a
potential client.
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| Hostreview.com
- HostReview.com provides a
searchable database just like many others to find the web host suitable
for you from amongst 1300 web hosting plans. Search Web Hosts
according to the features and price you want. Users can also read Web Host
reviews submitted by other users. |
