Web hosting services provide customers with a platform to set up & run their websites from. So if you are looking to set up your blog or your personal or business websites, you would need the services of a website hosting provider.

Choosing the website hosting service is a challenge. They all speak of the same uptimes, the same free offers & the same customer satisfactions indices. This is where customers find it hard to differentiate & make a choice!

When I started my first website in early 2000, I was impressed with all the freebies & the great offers the host was willing to offer. To top that, it would only cost me less than $3 a month for the next 24 months! I signed-up immediately only to realize that I was trapped in their marketing gimmick.

There are things you get to know of the provider only when you are using their services. For example, when they mean Uptime of 99.99% what does that mean to you? Will they really keep your website up for 364.96 days in a 365 days’ year?

This is where a webhosting rating service helps. The service is free & they provide you with some very critical pieces of the puzzle:

1. they do their reviews independantly which is more or less technical in nature – you will get explanations & a good understanding of what the technical promises the host makes actualy mean to you

2. they collect responses & ratings from customers – you will see the feedback on the support, availability & commitement of the providers. This is of significant value is you are new to choosing a host

3. they provide comparative charts & data of all the service providers – you do not have to note down every single detail from the service provider’s offering page to compare it with another

4. they make the selection process easier by grouping web hosting service providers in various categories – you will find separate categories for email hosts, php hosts, cms hosts, multi domain hosts etc.

This saves a lot of your time in browsing through providers that are probably not suitable for you. Since I only run php, I can get a list of all the CMS WordPress hosting providers in a single shot

5. they display award winning service providers separately – you will be surprised how some of the best award winning hosting service providers could cost you only as much or even lower than some of the not so good providers. Only a chart like the ones on a comparison site could show that

6. they make the buying process cheaper by showing you the base prices & any additional discounts or coupons that are currently available to new customers

You can use the details on the website, run your own comparison & then decide on which website host is the right for you.

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