| Imagine doing a search on Google for "web | | | | web hosting services providers, with no regard |
| hosting company", and coming up with around | | | | for their actual merits. And so it goes. I have |
| 1,700,000 hits! How can you possibly find the best | | | | personally looked over about a hundred of those |
| web hosting plan for your needs among all those? | | | | web hosting reviews' sites, and in most cases |
| You may look at the prices, thinking: "I will get a | | | | they are just that - billboards. Often, they |
| good deal by looking for the cheapest web | | | | strongly recommend web hosting companies that |
| hosting plan". | | | | are actually known to have a very poor |
| Well, not a good idea IMHO. Because of the fierce | | | | customer reputation. Thus, they are really |
| competition between providers of web hosting | | | | spreading misinformation and confusion instead of |
| services, they often try to cut costs by cutting | | | | offering good advice. |
| down on support, and also by vastly overselling | | | | The only reliable way of telling if a web hosting |
| hardware and bandwidth resources. The result: | | | | company is worth doing business with, is to see |
| poor support and poor reliability. Simply put: your | | | | what their customers are saying about it. Such |
| website goes down, and nobody listens to you | | | | customer posts can be found here and there on |
| when you try to tell your hosting company about | | | | various web sites, but you have to know where |
| it. | | | | to look. A few of those web hosting reviews' |
| What you want and need is not a cheap web | | | | sites does actually collect and post such customer |
| hosting plan, but a good web hosting plan that fits | | | | opinions; and you can also find authentic posts by |
| your budget. Having realized this, you start looking | | | | searching on large web hosting forums such as |
| around for advice on good web hosting. Now, | | | | WebHostingTalk. |
| chances are you will then stumble upon some | | | | Needless to say, you should NOT bother with the |
| web hosting review site, which is happy to tell | | | | "customer opinions" posted by the web hosting |
| you that is the very best web hosting provider in | | | | companies themselves on their own sites. Often, |
| the world! Fine, you think, now my problem is | | | | those "reviews" are fabricated, or simply copied |
| solved thanks to that piece of valuable | | | | from somewhere else. |
| information. | | | | It took me a while before I realized these things, |
| Wrong again - most likely. The truth is, that many | | | | it was not until I took the time to sift through |
| web hosting companies pay very generous | | | | hundreds of posts from web hosting customers |
| commissions to those who refer new customers | | | | that I finally noticed a pattern. Now I want to |
| to them. It then becomes very tempting to set | | | | share this knowledge with others, to give them a |
| up a "web hosting reviews" website which is | | | | better web hosting experience. |
| actually nothing but a billboard for the best-paying | | | | |