Web hosting reviews

When browsing the web for reviews of hosting providers, you’ll find many sites offering starred reviews, similar to what you see on Amazon.com, often arrange by “best” on top. There are a few problems with these review sites, however, and you may want to consider these before entrusting your business website with what may be a poor quality host.

First, many “web hosting review” sites offer only what seem to be real reviews, whereas behind the scenes one of the web hosting companies themselves is the owner of the actual review site! Coincidentally, the host owning the site seems to come up at the top of all lists and is the best rated. In other words, the review site is just a promotional front.

A few review sites are set up like Amazon.com, allowing five-star reviews from actual users. This can certainly be useful, but it is also too open to abuse from less scrupulous web hosting companies. Some of them are in the habit of flooding these sites with reviews of themselves, creating so many fake five-star reviews that they end up as the “best reviewed site,” even though they are no such thing.

Also, several sites that offer “web hosting reviews” are dishonestly set up so the host that pays the highest commission to the site owner is also rated the highest, and is most prominent in all lists as “best host.” Genuine review sites should also include hosts that do not pay commission, or pay little.

In conclusion, beware of so-called “web hosting review” sites that may be contaminated with biased reviews. The best method to research a host before entrusting your business website to it is to look for short comments on blogs instead of full reviews, as these are less apt to be abused by unscrupulous web hosts.

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