Web Hosting Review
Web Hosting Review
Before purchasing a web hosting package from any web hosting provider, it is always advised that you read available web hosting reviews on your chosen web hosting provider. By reading available web hosting reviews on your chosen web hosting provider, you are able to read up on any advantages there are with going with your chosen webhosting provider as well as any disadvantages there may be as well as problems that others may have had with it. There are many web hosting review websites around at the moment in time, meaning that there are more than enough reviews available on individual web host.
Web hosting reviews aren’t just available for specific web hosts, they are also available for individual web hosting packages and hosting platforms. By reading a web hosting review on your chosen host or hosting product, you are able to ensure that the package you are interested in is able to host your website and will allow it to function correctly. Web hosting reviews are available for both Windows and Linux web hosting packages, since these are the two main platforms that are used by web hosting providers. Reading reviews for Linux web hosts specifically is important, since one web host may use a different Linux distribution on its hosting server than another.
If you have chosen a web host because they specifically state that they are hosting specialists in one or more web technologies, then you should always check this statement with the web hosting reviews that are available for the provider concerned. For example, if you are going to choose a web host that specialises in the ASP and ASP.NET with Microsoft SQL Server hosting market, then you will want to check this claim with a review. The same can be applied to a web host claiming to a specialist in PHP and MySQL web hosting; in this type of situation you would to check with a web hosting review and the provider itself as to what operating platform they are using, since PHP and MySQL will run on both Windows and Linux web hosting servers.
Web hosting reviews are normally available for all types of web hosting, whether it be a basic shared website hosting account or an expensive high spec dedicated server. Web hosting reviews are a useful source of information if you are looking to move web hosts, wanting to find a first time web host or just to find out what others think of your current web host.
Sometimes, you might find a very negative review about a web host you are looking into, whilst there are many positive ones that outweigh the one negative that you have come across. This is because customers who have a very minor bad experience with a web host will try and ruin the good name of the web hosting provider concerned. They will do this by making the situation sound worse than it really is through a hosting review.
Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish whether or not a web hosting review is genuine, and it is important that you only take notice of genuine reviews. There are several different ways in which you can differentiate a fake web hosting review from a genuine review; these include:
• Website – most web hosting review sites require you to enter the address of the website that you are hosting at the host that you are reviewing, if a review doesn’t have this included then it is most probably a fake
• Completely positive thoughts – no web host is perfect in customer service and uptime, so if the wording of a web hosting review sounds too biased and ‘sucking up’ to the host itself, then it is probably a fake, although you can get genuine reviews with such language
• ‘New member status’ – if you are reading a web hosting review on a forum, and the member posting the review has piggybacked on the back of an existing friend and is a new member, then the review is most likely written by someone working for the host concerned classing it as a fake.
Basically, if you are unable to verify a review yourself based on the information provided in the review such as the address of the website that the reviewer is hosting with the host concerned, it is probably a fake. Genuine reviews normally list the positives and negatives of the web hosting provider, as well as provided the address of the website that they are hosted with the provider that they’re reviewing.
Web Hosting UK said,
September 3, 2008 @ 10:57 pm
most of the times you will see the Web Hosting review websites being owned by some Affiliate marketing Business persons. Affiliate marketing has become a good source of income this days and such Affiliate commission dependent people don’t bother much about genuine reviews or fraud reviews. Affiliate commission is their only focus and they simply work out some sort of arrangement with the Web hosting companies which helps both to make profits.
If you see any specific hyperlinks getting redirected to lenghty affiliate code from a Web hosting review website to the website of web hosting company then you should immediately figure out if the web hosting review website is the correct website to consider reviews or not.
Some highly popular forums like WHT are mainly dominated by some specific group of people and those people will never allow genuine reviews to be posted on such web hosting discussion forums. These people pump up bad reviews and negate good reviews.
Growth in Business comes with some shortcomings as well which in turn results in bad reviews. If a hosting company hosts more than 15,000 customers then even 10 unhappy customers can ruin image of that company. Downtime cannot be avoided if a company managed more than 1000 servers.
Best way to find a reliable company is to contact their support with some technical questions early morning before start of Business hours or late night. Try and contact their support department on livechat, phone as well as ticket and see if they answer your questions as per your expectations.
Another possible solution to know honest opinion about a web hosting company is to contact its existing customers and ask them about the hosting company. You can find contact information of customers from forum of that particular hosting company or you can use some rDNS based tools to list domains hosted by the hosting company on their various servers.
One tool which is helpful to find a list of websites hosted on a specific server is http://www.domaintools.com/reverse-ip/?hostname=I.P-address
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