Hosting Recommendations

We started these group of sites because we got tired of always seeing people ask for reviews on WebhostingTalk.com, Sitepoint.com, and other hosting related forums. We wish people would use the search button a bit more but alas, that is not always the case. So we collected all the reviews for them and sorted them for you to read. We also built in a way for you to submit your own reviews. We screen them to make sure they are legit and then post them to help future buyers who take the time to do research instead of jumping from bad host to bad host :)

Enjoy and let us know if you have any suggestions! Joel and Ben

Review Policies
This site is a collection of reviews from around the internet on . We classify each as positive or negative and divide it into the type of hosting reviewed and if negative what the problem was. We mark it resolved if a representative or the forum community involved came to some sort of conclusion on the issue. If a review is submitted to us we check to make sure it is by a real person and not a stooge for the hosting company. We also try our best to get information out of people on why they were mad or why they are happy so that readers get the best reviews possible. We also run Certified Hosting Reviews and use its verification outline to verify hosting reviews if you are interested.

Review Policy Outline From Certified Hosting Reviews:
Verifying a review involves a lot of checks. The following outlines the basics, but we won't reveal all. This rundown should give a good idea for what we do, but for the most part it's common sense combined with some good net detective work.

1.) First Verification Step
In the first step of verifying a review we check the most obvious tricks. We check to make sure the reviewer's domain is actually hosted with this hosting service by using whois to check their DNS servers. We also check past DNS servers to see where they have been and note any recent or suspicious moves. We also see if their whois is protected and compare their address on the whois to the host's location and make sure the reviewer isn't from the same place as the host. We also check if they recently changed their whois information and examine the web page for recent changes or anything else that might provide a clue to suspicious behavior. Using the reviewers IP we can see the the physical location from which the review was placed and compare that to the location of the hosting company. This first step runs down the obvious tricks.

2.) Second Verification Step
In the second step we check the more sophisticated tricks. We check the reviewers details and site details for reasons they might give a fake review such as being an affiliate etc. This involves a lot of Google searches, domain whois digging, address and location checks, and digging into their site and any suspicious details it contains.

3.) Final Verification Step
In the final part of the process we bring together our results from the previous steps. We consider all the factors, and make a final call using our results and our judgment based on years of experience in the hosting industry. We then post it knowing that it has been verified as legitimate after an exhaustive examination.