Deciding on a web hosting company can be pretty confusing. If you type ‘web hosting’ in a search engine, you are presented with literally millions of web sites. Some are actual web hosting sites but most are probably ‘review’ sites. There are so many of these review – directory sites because many web hosting companies pay a commission to the site owner if they get a sale from someone that came from that site. But that does not mean that you should disregard review sites as they can still be quite helpful.
Most review sites which claim to list the best web hosting services do not list companies with bad reputations anyways. Bad webhosting companies quickly get a reputation on the net among webmasters; and nothing makes someone think more badly of a web hosting review site more than seeing a known ‘bad’ company with a high rating. Review site owners have to have some credibility to continue making commissions.
Also, webhosting news companies that can afford to pay relatively high commissions to review sites usually must be doing well to afford to pay these commissions. Shoe-string type web hosting companies or ones that are losing a lot of customers, typically cannot pay very high commissions.
