Friday, 14 January 2011

Web Hosting Comments - Should You Take Notice

If you are looking for hosting for your WordPress site it is worth looking at comments made on various hosting review sites but bear the following in mind:
 

There is a temptation to look at web hosting comments, see a few negative items relating to a particular host and dismiss them but this can be a mistake. When reading web hosting comments it is useful to bear in mind the following:

  • The services provided by hosting companies do differ. There is no point in complaining about lack of support for a particular technology if this was never promised in the first place.
  • Users will generally complain more readily than they will praise so it would be surprising if there were no negative web hosting comments about a host.
  • The bigger the hosting company the more negative comments you would expect to see.
  • Many negative web hosting comments would not have been necessary if users had read the Terms of Service (although some hosts could make the key terms clearer on their web sites).

When looking at web hosting comments about the major hosting companies I was struck by how many are about financial, contractual and support issues rather than technical issues. These can be: .. read more ..

No comments:

Post a Comment