Rate Your Host
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
It’s a jungle out there when it comes to web site hosting. There are so many businesses clamoring for my attention. It is easy to randomly select a company when you are in the market solely for domain hosting and be sorry later when you begin to develop websites at those domains down the road. Some folks register one, two, or dozens of them for percolating ideas and grab the first web hosting company they see, sometimes not realizing that its so important to evaluate the companies carefully. What if you wanted to expand someday into more of a business hosting package rather than just a parking spot for domains and a personal family website? Business hosting not only involves a website that has a commercial name, but shopping cart software and promotional tools may also be in order.
Webhostinggeeks.com has a variety of charts that compare hosting services for various needs, including low price hosting, Linux hosting and more. There are a few sites on the internet that also have star ratings and reviews for hosting services, but others are clearly affiliate sites where only hosts that the webmaster has affiliate deals with are highlighted. Since this is not one of those sites, the playing field is a bit more even. Of course, the more people who opine, the more reliable the rating percentages will be, so rate away. Some hosts have many reviews, but some do not have a big enough cross section of ratings, yet, but the trends mentioned are helpful.
I do caution you to take a deep breath, or refrain from reviewing the host in the midst of an outage or a problem, as the site is not designed to solve technical problems with your host. Who knows…you could also end up changing your mind based on the customer service of the complete experience.
