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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…