Creative way to chose the right host...

by sam770
2 replies
We all know that today there is a crazy compatiotion between the hosting company. They all declare about themself that they have zilions of happy clients etc...
The main way that a serios webmasters / bloggers go by is simply to read a few reviews about 2-3 hosting companies, then chose one.
But the problem is that many of these reviews are FAKE, they were made by the hosting people them self.
I myself purchased a plan from a company that seems to be reliable and with many "happy customers", only after the payment i realized that i did a mistake: the servers are overloaded and extremely slow. Now, to move all my scripts and files might be a complicated task...

Few days ago i installed few SEO extensions for my chrome browser. while playing with these cool toys, i realized that my hosting company has a relatively poor Google rank! also the alexa rank was poor comparing to other hosting companies!

On te bottom line, my advice to you guys, is IN ADDITION (not instead) to the reviews you read before chosing a host, check also their google rank and their alexa rank, its an objective information, that some host companies would prefer that you never know about...
#chose #host
  • Profile picture of the author you2life
    You're true. But instead of reading reviews elsewhere i learnt from fellow internet marketers here and chose hostgator as my host about one and half years back and until now i have yet to see a problem. I have been using their baby plan for my 7 websites. All good.
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    • Profile picture of the author sam770
      I have been using their baby plan for my 7 websites. All good
      when you said "all good" - does it include A FAST servers as well?
      Can you post a link to one of your websites that is on hostgator servers? thx!
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