Reading and Understanding Web Hosting Reviews – A Guest Blog by Leon Belenky of CompareWebHosts.com

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Everywhere you look you can find web hosting reviews these days.  Magazines, blogs, press releases, articles, and more offer up their opinions on numerous different hosting companies. Searching for the top ten hosting companies will net you thousands of results, each with different companies in virtually every spot. If there is no clear leader, we are forced to wonder whether there is really no company out there able to stand out or if these reviewers might have other reasons for the way they choose their rankings. Here we offer a bit of insight into reading and understanding
hosting reviews.

One of the first things that you should know about reading hosting reviews is that most of the reviews you find will recommend hosting companies either owned by or affiliated with the person writing the review.  These reviews may sound impartial and may in fact offer benefits of other companies, but with most web hosting reviews, you will find that the reviewer is affiliated in some way with, or profiting from, the top rated companies. With this in mind, however, it actually becomes easier to search for a proper review.

The best place to look for reliable web hosting reviews is computer magazines and websites. This does not mean hosting providers or standard company blogs, however. Instead, look into the websites or paper copies of the world’s leading computer review magazines. By doing this, you will find information from truly neutral third parties and will be able to access real reviews based on the criteria that actually matter most to you.

When reading web hosting reviews, you need to look at more than the basics. While a standard star rating and a low price can be excellent factors in choosing a company, you need to keep your specific needs in mind. If you are looking for a hosting company that offers unlimited bandwidth and around the clock support, you need to find a web hosting plan that gets high praise in these categories. A company might get a great review for their feature rich free blogs, but if you are not looking to create a blog on your page, you may want to look at the benefits of the number two or number
three company.

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-Leon Belenky of CompareWebHosts.com