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Nowadays I am sure there must be hundreds or even thousands of web hosting providers – all competing to get your business. Therefore it may be a confusing process to make a good choice among this great variety of companies.

One way of dealing with this confusion is to browse web hosting review sites; ie. sites offering reviews and comparisons of web hosting companies. Such a review site may offer some good guidance in this jungle of web hosting service providers.

There is one problem, however: the integrity and honesty does vary a lot among such sites offering web hosting reviews. Often, the review site is tempted to praise web hosts not according to their actual merits but according to how much commissions the hosting company is paying for acquiring a new customer.

A new customer is worth a lot to a web hosting company, since that customer often stays with the same web host for years. Therefore, many companies offer generous compensation to those who bring them new paying customers.

Unfortunately, some web hosting providers who have a really poor reputation are among those who pay big commissions, which means that they have a whole army of people working to send them more business in spite of their bad reputation.

I have come across authentic customer ratings about a few web hosts like that, and found that maybe four out of five of these ratings are negative! In other words, about 80% of all those customers were unhappy with the service they had recieved.

Web hosting review sites are doing a great dis-service to the public by posting positive opinions about such really awful hosting companies. Fortunately, there are some honest web hosting review sites also, such as web-hosting101.com – this site takes pride in recommending only those hosting providers that have a really top-notch customer reputation.

You can also do your own search for customer opinions on web hosts on various forums. There are forums specifically about web hosting, where people often voice their web host experiences.

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