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When you go to buy pizza, you may prefer that special sauce and the personal attention of the hot cashier at your neighborhood pizzeria, rather than calling Domino’s and asking for a delivery. The hosting market also offers a variety of service providers, some of them are gigantic while others will server only a few clients - their friends and family members.   

From my experience, you better go with a large host. The bigger the better. Here’s why: companies like GoDaddy (1.2 million users) make so much money from hosting services, that they can operate a 24 hours phone support center, plus their sys admins create many layers of software and hardware to ensure that website stay up and running - otherwise their credibility and even their existence in on the line.

These companies tend to use less shady marketing techniques - if you’ll take a look at our best hosting services comparison table, you’ll see that the tricks these companies employ are nothing compared with smaller hosts. From my experience, their billing department is also more flexible than the smaller companies. If you feel that you should receive a refund, you have a better chance to get it from a billing person who works for a large company, than to try to get it out of the cousin/brother of the small host’s owner, who happens to answer billing inquiries - as well as sales, tech support and other questions… 

After trying so many web hosting services over the years, I think it’s time to start a blog that would reveal the hidden gems and dirty tricks of hosting companies. On the quest to find the best hosting provider, I had my share of disappointments: websites that went down for days, waiting for hours to talk to uncooperative tech support reps, as well as crazy stories which I’ll share with you in the future. The bottom line is that it is almost always better to choose a company based on service and servers uptime, rather than price. When your website is down or you can’t get anyone to help you to fix a bug or restore a database, you curse the moment you chose a cheap web host. I’ve been there…

Based on my experience, I will show you what to look for and what to beware of in the different plans that each company offers. I will also post updated information on specials, coupons, and tricks that you can use to reduce the price you pay and get free stuff, such as Google and Yahoo text ads. 

Please feel free to contact me at webmaster at besthostingblog.net with questions, comments and information on special offers.

Sincerely,

Matthew Prevel.