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Finding top unbiased web hosting reviews about various affordable, cheap, dedicated, domain, premium, VPS, and reseller hosts is getting increasingly complex these days. A cheap company usually offers domain hosting services below $5 a month, whereas an affordable one usually sells plans for less than $8 per month. Dedicated hosting companies sell their plans for anywhere between $50 - $200 a month, whereas VPS packages cost between $30 - $60 a month. A reseller host allows you to operate your own web hosting business in a cost-effective manner. A premium host may offer any type of the above mentioned services, but it must excel in its field in order to be classed as premium. Although all companies host a domain name, the term domain hosting is usually associated with those providers that offer a free domain name with their plan. With so many different options ranging from affordable to cheap to dedicated hosts offering different types of plans with plenty of variation in prices, it is not so easy to provide accurate web hosting reviews without a certain level of expertise. This is complicated by the fact that there are hundreds of hosting directories and all of these so-called guides claim to be experts in the field. This is exactly where the WHL directory comes in.
You might ask what separates us from the numerous other directories claiming to be the ultimate in the cheap hosting field? Well, the superiority of our directory over other services acting as affordable guides is justified by two primary reasons. The first reason is that host opinions, ratings and subsequent listing of any affordable, cheap, dedicated, domain, premium or VPS company is not carried out prior to a thorough analysis procedure. The procedure derives accurate information to identify premium hosts by performing an in-depth analysis of a lower threshold value of 500 customers opinions. Where does this data come from? The data is provided to us by a wide-spread network of companies who carry out large-scale surveys to gather web hosting reviews of the clients. The hosting reviews data is updated regularly by our partners and consequently acts as a highly accurate information source for us.
After this starts the real data mining phase of the reviews data in which it undergoes a rigorous analysis by our expert dedicated staff. They carefully scrutinize each and every single aspect of customers comments before arriving at any conclusion about the web hosting reviews and subsequent ranking of any web host. Secondly, we also continue to receive additional feedback from our visitors who actually sign up with any affordable or dedicated company from our site. This further confirms the information present with us about the image of the domain hosting company. The user web hosting reviews also serve to provide additional information about the various functionalities inferred from the reviews data, such as the client care services offered by the hosting company. Consequently, this becomes a yet another crucial repository of information for us to revise the rankings as well as the reviews of the cheap hosts listed on our site. This is a source of much satisfaction for our visitors as it guarantees them the highest level of accuracy of the opinions about the different cheap, affordable and dedicated providers. As a result, they can read our web hosting reviews with the peace of mind that there is a company specifically suited to their personal requirements.
So the bottom line is, WHL determines the rank of a web hosting company by taking into account not only the expert opinion of our editors but also the user reviews about that specific company received from time to time. The price per month mentioned against hosting reviews of each cheap host is for a 1 year contract for the most popular package offered by that particular provider. In case the web host also offers a month-to-month contract option, the monthly price is displayed within parenthesis next to the yearly contract price. Furthermore, a "no lengthy contracts" tag is also placed next to the host name. The price per month will decrease if the hosting provider offers an option to sign up for a longer contract term.
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To make sure our visitors can briskly find accurate data about the different cheap hosting companies, we post all the major changes here. All the major affordable companies have their rankings and web hosting reviews listed on this top 10 chart. So it is probably the best place to quickly find a company suited to your specific requirements. All important updates are posted here including the addition of new providers and changes in the ratings of any specific company. The updates also include removal notices for some companies, in the case that negative comments from customers increase due to higher moneyback or complaints.
Ranking Updated: Jan 16, 2012
Reading Host Information & Deciding
After reading our opinion of any top web host, you are very likely to make an informed decision. However there are still a few points that are worth mentioning here. The first thing you should look for in a particular web hosting company is that the features offered by it should satisfy your requirements. This cannot be overstressed. For example, if you are a beginner looking for a domain host for your personal website, then your only concern should be that you get enough storage space for your website. This may be satisfied by web hosting companies offering affordable solutions in the range of $5 per month or even cheaper. It also holds true for small businesses looking for cheap hosts. However, if you are a developer, an online entrepreneur, or an online business looking for shopping cart capabilities or advanced scripting technologies, then the optimum choice for you would be either a virtual, dedicated or managed host. So again you should first identify your requirements and then read corresponding reviews. Similarly, the best option for multinational businesses would be to read the reviews of a dedicated or managed provider which can satisfy their huge requirements. So to cut it short: do not go blindly with a company ranked among the top 10 hosts, but instead do some homework to find out what you need. From the point of view of quality of the top 20 hosts listed at WHL, all of them are top-notch. That is why their rankings keep changing quarterly, monthly or sometimes even bi-monthly.
Step-by-step Navigation Through Our Website
For the convenience of our website visitors, we have also placed the hosts listed on our site into the categories displayed on the right hand side. These categories are a very handy way to locate hosts of different types. In contrast to the bulk of directories on the internet, we have chosen to split the hosts into only the major categories. These include reseller, coldfusion, cpanel, adult, managed, vps, windows, asp, colocation, linux, frontpage, cheap, shared, dedicated, premier, ecommerce and regional hosts. In addition, we realize that there are people who do not want to host their websites right away but instead just want to grab a suitable domain name for later use. For this audience, we have added the category of domain registration to ensure that the domain name will not be grabbed by someone else before they have prepared the content for their website. In fact, this could be the starting point for many people who are thinking about launching an online business but either do not currently have suitable content, or are thinking about harnessing the services of a professional web designer. The next step after the website has been designed and appropriate content has been written is to look for web hosting reviews of a cheap host that can support the functionality included in the website. This choice can be made either by your web designer who can identify the specifications of the ideal host for you, or by yourself if you are experienced enough to make an informed decision. After you have read the reviews of a cheap hosting provider and have decided to host with it, you need to promote your site aggressively. This can be done by offering unique content so as to get valuable inbound links, by submitting articles to free article directories, and by submitting your site to big directories like DMOZ, Yahoo etc. You'll also need to take care of optimizing the on-site factors such as keyword density etc. This is where you should resort to our webmaster services section in order to find suitable supplementary services for your website.
