Web Hosting Reviews – Don’t Get Scammed!

Many so-called “web hosting review” sites have many problems with them that you may want to consider before entrusting your entire business website to them, lest you end up with more headaches than you need.

One not uncommon technique that some hosts engage in is to create phony “review” sites, showing themselves as the “highest rated” host at the top of all lists. As you can imagine, many of these are from some of the lower quality hosts, as a well-known host with a good reputation would be damaged by the discovery of such a technique.

Secondly, and related to the first problem, even if the review site isn’t actually owned by any hosting company it can be quickly overrun by phony reviews from employees of the hosting companies. And the bad hosts are more motivated to do this as they may have a bad reputation elsewhere on the web. This is quite common on Amazon.com, with authors’ friends creating fake accounts and reviewing just the one book, giving it five stars.

And finally, most web hosting review sites are created out of a motivation to receive commissions. This is fine in theory, except many of theses types of sites will only rate the highest-paying commission sites with five stars, at the top of lists. So all you are really seeing are lists of web hosts who pay the website owner the most for getting people to sign up. You certainly won’t find reviews of free web hosts on such sites.

In conclusion, beware of so-called “web hosting review” sites that may be contaminated with biased reviews. The best method to research a host before entrusting your business website to it is to look for short comments on blogs instead of full reviews, as these are less apt to be abused by unscrupulous web hosts.