Web Hosting Reviews

Web Hosting Reviews and You

If you pride yourself on being an expert at identifying winner and loser web site hosting services, you might take up the difficult but interesting task of writing web hosting reviews.

There are many motivations for writing web hosting reviews, but if you are writing them to lend an expert feel and appeal to your own web site, make sure the reviews are written in a way that they will be taken seriously.

When writing web hosting reviews it is important to establish in the text of the review, in an editor's note or in another prominent place on the review page, what makes you an expert. People don't want to rely on information from a self-proclaimed techie with only biased views and no real training, education or experience. Want to get your readers' trust? Tell them who you are and why you are writing web hosting reviews.

You have to know what to look for in a good web site hosting service before you can start writing web hosting reviews. In fact, if you are serious about these reviews then try the web hosting services out. It is possible to write reviews based on what a web site hosting service offers, but don't translate offerings into an endorsement or rejection of subjective information such as complaint response time and customer service techniques. Web hosting reviews should look at the hard facts. Like web site hosting services should be compared. Never compare a free web hosting service to Managed Web Hosting unless you are simply discussing options, not a true comparison of the actual services.

When writing web hosting reviews devise a rating system and determine exactly how you will fairly rate each web site on a scale of one to 10 or one to 100. There are many aspects you can consider including monthly fees, the cost of set up, disk space, bandwidth and hosted domains. Also, find out what kind of operating systems are supported by the service.

If you are serious about being a professional reviewer, delve deeper into issues such as the brands of computers used, the availability of back up servers, down time recorded in the last 12 months, the number of clients currently enrolled in the service (assuming the web hosting service you are reviewing has multiple clients). You can look at longevity of service and annual sales as indicators of stability. Try calling the customer support center for the web hosting service or using the online help center to determine how responsive the customer support team really is. Writing web hosting reviews can be an interesting eye-opener for you and your lucky readers if you take the task seriously and have a little fun with it at the same time!