Comparing hosts

Wipe_Out · 24th May 2007

Hi,

I have tried looking for reviews on various hosts but they are often quite old or there just aren't any.. Typically all that can be found is customers complaining on various forums but thats not really a fair judgement..

Are there any sites that monitor and review web hosts?

Thanks

midnightsoftwar · 24th May 2007

Not really, you'll find that any sites that do this will be biased to a few providers - the ones that they are being paid by.

othellotech · 24th May 2007

You tend to see that only bribed/paid customers write good reviews (i know of a couple of "hosts" who give you free onths in exchange for posting nice things at review sites) and only people with a grudge or a serious problem write bad ones - this seems to be the way with all "service" businesses.

One thing to avoid are the majority "top 10 hosts" type sites, they're almost always ranked in the order of how much affiliate commission they pay.

My advice would be to start with a list of the functions and features you require, draw up a shortlist and see if anything bad is said about any f them here and at WHT, look at their support forums etc

LeaUK · 2nd June 2007

I found this a sensible and interesting read:

http://www.crucialservers.net/hostin...Marketing.html

renddyy · 8th June 2007

Whreviews.com can help you much if you want to find feedbacks about this or that company.

blacknight · 16th June 2007

The thing that makes me laugh is the uptime claims. Since most of the uptime monitors only check the host's main site there is no way to know how the rest of their servers / network is performing.

Jon-NC · 16th June 2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by blacknight

The thing that makes me laugh is the uptime claims. Since most of the uptime monitors only check the host's main site there is no way to know how the rest of their servers / network is performing.

I love the sites that say 99.9% uptime guarantee, then have an external alertra etc statistic showing 98% uptime.

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borninsummer · 21st June 2007

If you want some genuine reviews, I recommend to go to the WHT to make search there.

kriptography · 21st June 2007

Many reviews can be found at hostsearch.com.

markcastle · 21st June 2007

....and then you get the companies that say things like "100% uptime since 1996" or something similarly daft, yet we in the industry hear about the downtime that they have. Funny how the news never gets to their marketing departments.

RSH · 22nd June 2007

I second the suggestion of finding good reviews on forums like wht as that seems to be more transparent than the directory websites which rank the hosting providers as top hosts...

JamesSykes · 23rd June 2007

Honestly the best advice i would give to someone looking for a good host would be either to go off recommendations from people you trust OR trawl the various forums looking for recommendations, eventually a few names will stand out.

Never read the BS on the website and stay away from unlimited, 100% or anything that sounds too good to be true!

freespirit · 29th June 2007

I don't know if it is relevant to the discussion but I found this link on another forum.

digmark · 24th July 2007

Are reviews published on hosting sites necessarily a bogus? Sometimes sites are very impressive and clients claiming to be hosted by a hosting company. I'm just looking at myriadnetwork.com main page and see mission-critical business sites, shouldn't I give any credit to it?

netserve · 24th July 2007

$87million datacentre, that a big centre for only 550 hosted .cnobi domains.

The dns stats show they only host 550 international domains