| Millions of searches are done online by | | | | when you see a declining trend, almost 99.99% of |
| unsuspecting people looking for the best web | | | | the time, you will find that something has gone |
| hosting companies to host their personal or | | | | seriously wrong. |
| business websites. You can compare for ages on | | | | Based on this customer trend number, you can |
| factors like pricing, disk space, bandwidth, | | | | further classify the companies into 3 different |
| connectivity, uptime and customer service, | | | | groups. First group has a healthy customer base |
| hardware features and 50 other variables. It all | | | | number of more than 200,000 and they are |
| adds up to a complicated equation. | | | | constantly growing. These companies are highly |
| Well, you can actually choose a good and reliable | | | | recommended and they will almost always score |
| web host provider based on just one number - a | | | | high on features, pricing, customer service and |
| number that you can predict forever with near | | | | connectivity. |
| certainty. What's more, you are guaranteed to | | | | The second group of web hosts are what I |
| save plenty of money, time and headache. | | | | termed as neutral providers, they might be |
| This simple number will trump the all the reviews, | | | | enjoying a healthy growth in their customer base |
| marketing messages, promotions and advertising | | | | but their base number is still relatively small (under |
| galore that are thrown at you from all direction. | | | | 200k) and they are probably a very new set-up. |
| Forget about them because what you often get | | | | Or they could haven been recovering from a |
| is just half the story. | | | | downward trend. |
| You can confidently choose a top web hosting | | | | Finally, you want to avoid the third of web hosting |
| service based on the good, old-fashioned growth | | | | sites at all cost. They are experiencing a decline in |
| number of their domains hosted, customer trend. | | | | their customer base consecutively for almost 6 |
| A customer trend number is not about what | | | | weeks in a row. |
| most of these companies like you to believe. That | | | | If you think this is too overly simplified, well I |
| they have experience or the expertise to serve | | | | agree, choosing a good web host should not be |
| millions if not hundreds of thousand of customers | | | | that complicated, why rely on what a web hosting |
| as claimed on their site. | | | | companies tell you or worse still what their sales |
| The customer trend number, is a number that | | | | representatives are telling you when you can |
| tells you exactly how many domains they are | | | | simply check up on their customer trend number |
| hosting on any given week, and if this number is | | | | to discover the truth for yourself. |
| going up or down. These numbers do not lie, | | | | |