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Don't Get Fooled by the Web Hosting Wolves in Sheep's

Clothing!

by: Kai Virihaur

When looking for a good web hosting provider to look after your

website, it is easy to get confused. There are thousands of

companies around, and they compete fiercely for your attention.

Some are good, some are wolves ...

Are you looking for web hosting? If you want to set up a personal

website, or a modest commercial one, you are probably in the

market for an inexpensive shared hosting plan. Those entry-level

plans may cost $5-10 per month, and often boast very generous

features for that modest prize. However, the strong competition

often causes the companies to oversell, and then have difficulties

living up to their promises. And how do you go about telling the

good ones from the bad?

Maybe you go to one of the many web hosting review sites. Those

places may offer extensive listings of various web hosting

companies and their features; which is certainly helpful. But be

aware of the fact that these review sites are out there to make

money by referring new customers to the hosting companies!

Therefore, they tend to praise those companies that pay them the

best.

I used to be naive about these things, trusting the review sites. That

was until I began some serious research on the subject myself.

Were they really so good, those much-praised web hosting

companies? Soon, I was able to uncover large amounts of customer

testimonials that told a different story.

It became clear that several very large and well-known web

hosting companies had surprising amounts of negative customer

ratings against them. There were many angry customers that related

stories about incompetent or non-existent customer support, billing

disputes where the company kept charging ex-customers after they

had cancelled their accounts; and more.

One may say that any company with many customers is likely to

have a few that are hard to please. But in these cases, there were

scores of reviews, and the majority was negative! Since certain

hosting companies are known to prosecute those who have

criticized them in public, I will not mention any names here.

In conclusion: I advice anyone looking for a reliable and honest

web hosting provider to be very careful and not put too much trust

in the web hosting ratings commonly found at hosting review sites

and similar places. Also be aware that the customer feedback

published by the web hosts themselves on their sites is of course

filtered - and may even be faked.

About The Author

Kai Virihaur

I am a researcher, an artist, and a web developer. On my

website, www.TheHostingFinder.com, I have gathered some

information on the good type of web hosts - the kind that has a

majority of happy and satisfied customers. I hope this may be of

some help to people looking for good web hosting.