You must be thinking why Life is Colourful stresses on Web hosting rating companies. It might be a third or forth review of a web hosting rating company over here and that’s not without a reason guys!

Why we should check out web hosting ratings

One of my clients, recently has been literally duped by Hostnine web-hosting for $149. What was his mistake, he did not bother about there are no reviews about Hostnine around the web, he did not bother to take my suggestion seriously to go for reliable and popular web hosting rather than a newly established, no past records company just because they were offering something more than the popular one. I am not saying there would not be happy customers with hostnine, but I am sure there are not 100% happy customers as well. Being webmasters, we are bothered about even a single negative review of any service we opt for. The 99% positive reviews don’t help. This is altogether a big topic to discuss with you, and I am going to post our experience with Hostnine in coming week, watch for it - how we were duped for $149 by Hostnine with proofs of their lame customer service.

I wish this example could have cost my client little less amount than whooping $149 to learn this lesson. That’s why I stress on looking for web hosting reviews before you put your money on stake. Though we cannot rely on the ratings that are available on such sites “completely”, at least they would give us an idea about what kind of opinion the users of respective web hosting have. We are smart enough to check more than one places for reviews of any service we are going for.

Web Hosting Rating Services
I have added webhostingrating.com in my arsenal of review websites, before I suggest any web hosting to my clients. They are trying to build a biggest web hosting directory, and yes as a responsible web master - I am going to contribute to this directory with reviews of web hosting companies I tried so far like Dreamhost, Hostnine, Easy CGI Godaddy etc. You must be wondering how I try all these web hosting companies. I have bunch of clients who like me to help them to buy web hosting and set up their websites in there. Sometimes, I have to go as per their requirements and keep on changing web hosting companies and at times we fall in trap of companies like Hostnine. There is a lesson for me as well, I would not ever give up on my opinion of going for reputed web hosting companies; whatever my clients suggest.

There were few ways, I built up my knowledge base about web hosting companies.

Reading Web hosting tutorials and research

If you are a newbie, web hosting tutorials help to understand what to look for in any hosting service. I do the research by trying out some of those companies on my own - fortunately my client base provides me an opportunity to try out various companies and build up my knowledge base

Browsing Web Hosting Rating companies

Though I don’t completely rely on ratings as they could be bought from users - but still there are 100s of webmasters like me and you who want to honestly contribute our opinion and reviews. And that’s how we can find out lot of reliable information in here. Webhostingrating.com claims that the user reviews are unedited and there is no harm in believing what they claim initially. Moreover, we can see what are the Top 10 web hosting companies each year. This would help us to get a quick glance on what companies are excelling in what area.

Even I look at web hosting awards given to the hosting services, verify that information and keep those companies in mind while suggesting to clients.

So the bottom line is make sure that you go through web hosting rating before you decide upon any web hosting for yourself or your clients. I am right now all set to contribute to this web hosting directory that is supposed to become the largest searchable web hosting directory by contacting them through their contact form - please contribute your reviews there as well! Currently they don’t have direct way to contribute your ratings, but eventually they should have it soon.