The joys of looking for a new webhost
Posted in Interwebby on 01/29/2010 07:16 pm by admin
I am so glad I have found web hosting that I am happy with, because I hate moving hosts. I’ve done it several times over the years and no matter how experienced you get it’s still a stressful time – I run several sites (I think it’s actually 12 in total!) so getting everything moved over to the new webhosting provider can be a hassle, it can take a long time, it can be complicated and it can and often does go wrong. I have been with my current host for almost two years now and so far so good, fingers crossed it stays that way.
That’s not even to mention the hassle you have to go through in the first place in finding a new host. Finding companies, comparing what they offer on their plans, working out which is the best value for money.
I always rely on real user reviews when it comes to things like this because I know from experience a company can offer the world on their sales pages, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they will deliver it. I’ve signed up to places before thinking they sounded awesome only for them to be completely useless.
Thankfully sites like WebhostingGeeks.com come in very handy for making it easier though, they list loads of the biggest and best known hosting providers and all are reviewed and rated by genuine users. The site has been around since 2004 so all the web hosting companies have lots of ratings and reviews already which is great news, a lot of these rating sites have about 3 reviews which for me just isn’t enough to be worth bothering with, you need a lot of reviews in my opinion to be able to get an accurate picture of things – they also have loads of web hosting news, guides and information available in their company blog.
