No doubt if you’re looking for web hosting for your website or for a website you’re planning on building you’ve come across a number of web hosting review sites. These sites are on the web to give or share advice on different web hosting services some companies provide. They can be valuable sources of information and at the same time they can be misleading.
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What you’ll often find are three different types of web hosting review sites. You’ll find the completely unbiased sites that give completely honest opinions and verified information to its views. Then you’ll come across some that, for the most part, provide unbiased information but with some opinions slanted because of some user’s affiliations. Finally, there are those that are completely biased and only give positive reviews for web hosting sites they have an affiliate link pointed to.
Your first kind of review site is the dandy to come across. There really aren’t too many of them to be found and when you do find one you’ll find that they also provide a way for site visitors to leave comments or additional information. These comments are then moderated to remove spam and other advertising only posts.
The second kind of web hosting review site is one of the most common and typically has a complete forum or discussion board as its base of operations. Users ask questions and other users answer. You’ll find many, many unbiased reviews and tidbits of information at these types of sites. However, you’ll also find people vehemently defending or pushing certain hosting companies and often they’ll have affiliate links in their signature files or, even more brashly, in their posts.
It’s this second kind of review site where you’ll most likely find the most information and the most valuable information as many, many people use them to post questions of recommendations and also to find help with hosting problems.
Finally you’ll come across web hosting review sites that are nothing more than there to toot the horn of a company that they earn commissions from. Although, many of these are quite good in their own right, there are some that are misleading only to get you to click through and buy through their affiliate link.
All in all web hosting review sites, particularly forum and discussion based ones, will provide you with extremely valuable information that will go a long way to helping you choose the right web hosting company.