Web Hosting Reviews

Here are the Top 5 Hosting Companies. You can read their respective reviews by clicking on the review. These hosts were chosen as a result of careful consideration. They provide the best value/cost ratio in the industry.

WEB HOST	PRICE	SPACE BANDWIDTH	REVIEW
	$4.95	UNLIMITED	GreenGeeks Review
	$3.50	UNLIMITED	iPage Review
	$5.95	UNLIMITED	Inmotion Hosting Review
	$3.67	UNLIMITED	FatCow Review
	$3.95	UNLIMITED	HostPapa Review

 

There are many sites offering reviews of web hosting companies. Since websites are today numbering in the millions, it is obvious that people who are thinking about putting a website on the net of their own be interested in finding the best host for their enterprise. So review sites are more and more commonly available online. These are sites that give people a chance to see which hosting company they may tie their fortunes up with. There are many sites through which you can get hundreds upon hundreds of reviews of web hosting companies – if the number doesn’t actually go into the thousands (I haven’t actually done a count – the site has more host reviews than you can shake your proverbial stick at).

Sites dedicated to web hosting reveal a number of things that you as a potential looker for a hosting company might be interested in. Right on the landing page you can see reviews of some popular hosting companies. Let’s just take a few examples in order:

1. InMotion Hosting has an overall rating of 99.42. They have gotten 89 reviews out of which 89 ended up recommended the hosting company. Under rating using a scale of 10 (with 10 being the highest rating), you’ll find the following breakdown: 9.96 is the rating for uptime and reliability; responders also gave 9.98 rating for server and connection speed, and 9.96 for customer support and the level of technical knowledge. As you can see, InMotion Hosting gets a near 10 overall ranking, so you may find the hosting company the one you may want to go with. However, there are many others to check out.

2. Go Daddy: this particular hosting company has not done as well as the previous one under consideration here. The overall rating in this case is only 58.16%. The number of recommendations is actually fewer on the positive than on the negative side. The breakdown is as follows: 42 of 88 reviews say, “yes” to the hosting company whereas 46 say, “no.” The 10 scale gives us further discouraging numbers: the number for uptime and reliability is 7.78 (out of 10) and server and connection speed is only 7.20. The other numbers are even lower, with 5.93 being given for customer service and billing.

The question that comes up for people who are interested in web hosting reviews – or sites that provide such – is this: how reliable are these reviews? Are they impartial and honest? Are they slanted in favor of the companies in question? In other words, are the reviewers trying to promote or sell the services of a given hosing company. In which case what you read in a review like that may not be what you really are after. What you really are after, if you are trying to find a hosting company, is accurate information. But the fact is that all reviewers who evaluate web hosting companies are bound to be subjective up to a point.

So the subjective factor may not be completely overlooked. People may like certain hosting companies for a variety of reasons, and if anyone dislikes something about a hosting company, the reasons are also large in number. The best thing you can do if you are interested in finding a host for your website is to check out as many of the review sites as you can find. Doing a search for “web hosting reviews” is going to give you quite a few of the sites that offer reviews of web hosting companies.

When you read through quite a few reviews, you are also to check out the websites of the various hosting companies as well. Look over their various offerings, their price ranges, etc., before making up your mind to go with one rather than with another. But before you hook up with a host, be sure to check out as many of the reviews as you can find out there. There is no point in playing pig in a poke and just signing up with any web hosting company regardless of their reputation. The good ones are bound to have a good reputation, and you should be definitely looking for signing on with one of those.