Beware of Bogus Website Host Reviews

Beware of Bogus Website Host Reviews

Article by Hugh Kimura

Whenever I am in the market to buy something, I usually jump online and search for reviews on that product. Do you do the same thing?

The easiest things to get reviews for are consumer electronics. I just check out Amazon and they usually have ratings on almost every product out there and they are usually very helpful and accurate.

However, this is not the case for other products and services and online. I wish it was, but unfortunately this is just how things are. I think that sometime in the not so distant future, we might be able to have reviews on everything, right at our fingertips.

Anyway, I digress. I have found that the one thing that is really hard to get a real review on is website hosting. Website host reviews are usually fake and either contrived by the website owner to sell hosting plans or written by an outsourced worker in another country to give the appearance of it being a real user of the service.

How do I know this? I have been designing websites for about 10 years. In the beginning, I just used a website host that had a nice website and was cheap.

Quite honestly, the average website host is not that bad. You will have some down time, you can get decent customer service and your service will be…average.

But when you get a bad website host, it can be a nightmare. This happened to me a couple of times and I was sick of it!

That is when I finally decided to get the best website host I could. I scoured the internet for website host reviews and was surprised what I found.

Most of the website host reviews were worthless! How could I tell that these website host reviews were fake? Here is how I could tell and hopefully it will help you avoid fake reviews.

The obvious one was sites that only had star ratings next to a list of website hosts. How did they come to that rating? Your guess is as good as mine.

Other sites were a little sneakier. Each host would have only 1-5 reviews for each host and they all pretty much sounded the same. Good try guys.

The real review websites were few and far between. In fact, I lost the first legitimate review site that I found because I forgot how I found it and it got buried under all the fake sites.

A real review will give you specifics of the person’s experiences. How long their website was down, how many years they were with the host, what the specific issues were and names of other hosts that they have used in the past.

This information would be easy to come by when looking for a digital camera but not with a website host. If there is anything that I hope you get out of this article, it is that you do your homework and do the research to find the best website you can find for your purposes.

Why have an average website host when you can have an excellent host? Trust me, it will save you a lot of time and money.

About the Author

Hugh has been designing websites for over 10 years. After a few bad experiences, he decided to find the best, most affordable host possible. Find out about his horror stories in this article or visit his blog to find out what he uses.