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Reseller web hosting.

March 19th, 2011

In reseller web hosting, real hosts are able to generate bulk businesses and hand over individual clients to reseller servers. In turn, reseller web hosting businesses look after some individual client needs. This is a win-win situation for both, since real hosts will have an intermediary in the form of reseller web hosting to individual customers without having to attend to them one by one. The reseller is also able to put up a business and earn income without having to shell out capital expense. Although in some instances they do compete with each other for a fair share of the web hosting market, the real hosts can still benefit from this set-up considering they do charge a certain amount from resellers.

The services offered by a reseller web hosting service do not really differ from a real host. As a matter of fact, reseller web hosting offers more features to the customers. Due to the added value services, reseller web hosting can offer web design and programming services to each customer that are often times not possible from real hosts. Real hosts tend to focus on bulk accounts and corporate clients. Reseller web hosting offers value added services to customers in order to maintain a competitive edge against bigger web hosting services.

Reseller web hosting is also better able to establish friendly relationship with their customers that go beyond the contract terms. This is the secret for those successful reseller web-hosting services. They fill the need that bigger hosting servers cannot provide.

Benefits of reseller web hosting

The reseller web hosting concept is useful in its own way.  The usual hand out of resources for a reseller hosting option is possible through a partition of storage and bandwidth.  Of course some of the modern options make it possible to have “unlimited” resources but this can be limited in some ways and may cost much more to implement and have available.  The reseller hosting makes it possible to have several websites with separate IP addresses on a single hosting plan.

The other benefit that is available with reseller web hosting is the possibility of reselling the resources in the plan. A client using the reseller hosting that will not be using the entirety of the hosting can actually partition it and sell the hosting to a client underneath them. This makes it possible to have access to a possibility of making money as a small hosting company.  This makes the hosting economical in a way that it can be paid for by reselling the hosting to other clients.

In case the needs of the individual’s website(s) are the main concern whenever they are choosing reseller web hosting options. For sites that do not need to have as much dedicated resources available for them the use of reseller web hosting may be the best choice. Others which will require more performance and stability will want to be hosted through a dedicated option.  Budget may be a concern and a deciding factor for the client as well so choosing the option which is most affordable may be the course of action to take.

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Be a reseller web hosting provider.

March 2nd, 2011

Just as people have to have a place to call home, websites also must have a “residence.” As individuals seek housing, internet entrepreneurs seek hosting for their websites. These days there is an enormous demand for web hosting services and becoming a web hosting reseller to try to help meet that demand can be an easy business to operate from home.

Opening a web hosting reseller business is one of the wisest ways to put up or expand your internet based business. However, do not take this step just by deciding overnight and getting into the web hosting reseller market, the very next morning. Whenever you start a new web hosting reseller business you must be aware of the inside and the outside of it. The various points that you should work on, before you start a web hosting reseller business is as follows:

Market research and planning: The first important point to be considered in a business is that you must do a proper market research. Planning is also one of the primary factors for the success towards your new web hosting reseller business. There is little scope for people who start their business without setting specific goals and objectives.

Marketing research: Don’t fall in the race. Just try to be a good service provider. Research how other companies provide good services to their customers. Take from advice that is in that business; because experience is always a good teacher.  If you want to get ahead in your web hosting reseller business, you must get to know which companies are more successful and which are the ones who have achieved least success in their business. This information will act as a feedback and it will guide you to decide what to do and what to avoid with regard to your own web hosting reseller business.

Have a market plan: You can develop a successful business plan for your new web hosting reseller business by collecting the required information from your initial research. Also, you need to be aware of the fact that just by having a sound business plan does not mean that you will definitely achieve success in your web hosting reseller business. Writing a business plan will only act as a guide and it will help you tackle the challenges and obstacles that come on your way towards starting your web hosting reseller business.

After starting service:

Give your customers better service. As a reseller provider, your number one priority should be customer service. This is where you can shine above the larger companies, since they likely have many customer service representatives who are likely not monitored regularly. Even more, they may even hire overseas representatives to keep their overhead low. By providing excellent customer services, you have the best chance at building a strong customer base. The number one rule a reseller should live by is MAKE SURE YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE HAPPY.

Know how to grow. As a reseller, you will be responsible for growing your own customer base. For this reason, it is important to know where to market and who to market to. Small business owners are a good start. You can advertise that you, the owner, will work directly with them whenever they have any questions, concerns, or need technical help. This is give them the comfort of knowing that they will not have to deal with a customer service representative if something happens with their account.

Customize your hosting plans. If you are able to split your ‘plans’ up how you want them, advertise that you can make a customized plan specific to the customer’s individuals needs. You can also let them know that, as their business or website grows, their plan can grow with them. You may also want to split up some very tiny plans and sell them for $1-2 a month. These would have just enough space for a 5-10 page basic personal website and include no extras. To someone who needs a very small amount of space, such as a parent whose child wants a website, $1 a month will look much better that $5-$10. If you are able to gain enough customers via this method, it may be much more profitable that selling larger plans.

Offer discounts for current customers who refer new customers. To make sure you come out ahead, you can always specify that the new customers must remain a customer for so many months before the discount is given to the current customer. A good idea is to offer 1-3 months worth of free service in exchange for a customer that buys a 6-12 month plan. Remember ‘honesty is the best policy’, please doesn’t full your customer by offering something unmanageable that you can’t manage. It will hurt your customers & they won’t trust you after that.

Choose a reliable service. As a web hosting reseller, you have a responsibility to your customers if you want to keep them around. This responsibility includes making sure that you are reselling services from a reliable company. If you choose a bad company that has significant downtime and does not have enough resources to support all of the customers that they have taken on, you are liable to lose most of the customers that you bring in.

Do your homework. Lastly, if want to run a reselling business, it is always a good idea to know something about servers, scripting languages, and other issues that may arise with your customers. This will allow you to respond to their questions and concerns quicker than if you have to look up the answers yourself.

Reselling is a great business to start and offers a lot of profit opportunity if you know how to market your business correctly. You have the potential to grow a booming business quickly with very little overhead and everything is done online. No building maintenance, employees (unless you choose).

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Advice on web hosting.

February 25th, 2011

Most web hosting companies today – including ones that are ‘green’ – offer their customers unlimited bandwidth and disk space in their web hosting packages.  This helps make the choice marginally easier when you are considering the many different options available.  You would think that a package offering unlimited bandwidth and storage would cost an arm and leg every month, but actually they don’t.  This is one less thing a newer to the web hosting world can stop worrying about.  If they use a company offering unlimited bandwidth and space, they will be able to handle as much traffic as they want.

Choosing the most appropriate web hosting solution is crucial to your business and success. I would like to be more particular on choosing the most relevant web hosting service depending on your needs.

There are too many sprouting and fly-by-night web hosting providers lurking on the web so it’s very important that you know who to trust and do business with.

Part of the challenge is choosing the right web hosting package or solution that exactly fits your needs.

Among the types of web hosting include Shared Hosting, which is the most cost-effective and popular package for bloggers; Dedicated Hosting which is more suited for bigger sites and for those who want full control, more flexibility, and responsibility for their websites. VPS Hosting however offers greater power and performance. Managed Hosting is rather suited for those less technically inclined but it’s rather expensive. Reseller Hosting is good for those with the entrepreneurial spirit.

Making a wise decision can be overwhelming at times given these many options. If you are on the edge of uncertainty you can head on to web hosting review sites for added guidance. It always pays to be informed.

Concern point

Transfer speed is something else a newer to the web hosting world will need to take into consideration.  Because a single server can be the home to thousands of websites at one time, the transfer speed could be lower than what you hope for when it comes to the loading of your website.  Of course, you could pay for a dedicated server but that costs a considerable amount of money.  One option that is open to you is using a virtual private server.  A VPS offers the user the same benefits as a dedicated server but without the cost involved.  VPS dedicated servers can accommodate thousands of websites but because of the way they are set up the resources are allocated to each site without having to ‘borrow’ from another one.

Finally, you need to make sure that the web hosting package you choose can accommodate any special software you want to use.  MySQL and PHP are not supported by every company.  You need to make sure that the host can support these programs, even if it means e-mailing them before purchasing a web hosting agreement.

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4 stuffs Your Web Host Doesn’t Want You to Know

February 4th, 2011

Looking for a web host for your website? Ever feel like some of the things being promised are far fetch Check this list to see if your host has done this to you! And if they have: run, don’t walk… Get far-far away! There are plenty of web hosts in the market to not waste your time and money with the bad ones.

1. WE OFFER TERABYTES OF SPACE… ALL FOR $1 … WE GUARANTEED!!

You’ve seen all the offers. Tens of thousands of gigabytes.  Thousands of terabytes.  All for just a few dollars. Think it’s too good to be true? Well, it is. How do you think the hosts afford all that space? It’s a simple trick that is known as “overselling” in the web hosting world. Hosts sell 100x-1000x more space then they actually have hoping you don’t use it. And what happens if you start using it? Well if you read their terms of service, most of these hosts control your account based on cup usage. At the same time, “file storage” isn’t allowed. So as soon as you upload more than 1 GB, or get more then a few thousand visitors on your site, you will find your site gone. Of course none of the hosts want you to know this, so they hide it in confusing fine print and terms of service agreements. I hate to say it, but mom & pop might have been right… if it’s too good to be true, it probably is a scam.

2. WE HAVE BEEN IN BUSINESS FOR DECADES.

I find it funny how several well known hosts claim to have been around for “decades”. Another one boldly states “In Business since 1988″. I hate to break it to you guys, but there wasn’t really such a thing as web hosting back then. I’ve been involved in the hosting industry almost since the beginning, and I know for a fact there weren’t any $5/mon. hosts around in the 1980′s. Before believing a hosts claim, check the who is on the domain and see when they registered it. The funny part is that most hosts that claim to be more than 10 years old haven’t been around more than a 1 year! Obviously they don’t want you to know this, so do your due diligence and make sure you don’t get scammed by a fly-by-night host.

3.  WE HAVE OUR OWN DATACENTER – THOUSANDS OF SQ FEET

Face it, no matter what web host you go to, their site has pictures of huge datacenters, thousands of servers! Unfortunately, most web hosts are just “re-sellers”. Just people with some spare time that rent some space on someone’s server for $20/mon. and try to re-sell the space to a 100+ people. Best way to check? Ask for the address and other information on their datacenter. The trick here is that many hosts will give you the information of their providers datacenter (who they are renting from!), but if you are persistent enough and dig around you should be able to dig up the truth.

4. OUR HOSTING IS ONLY $5/MO – BUT YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP UNTIL 2050.

I don’t know what it is these days, but web hosting used to follow the logic of “what you see is what you get”. Now you have everyone advertising plans for $5/mon, but when you get to their website you find out its $20/month! What’s the deal?? Well it turns out that you need to sign up for 2 years, 3 years or even 5 years to get the “$5/mon”. Is it just me, or is that not $5/mon.? That would be $300/5years, not $5/mo! The worst part is that you usually don’t realize a host is doing this until you get to the final part in the check out. Do your research! Make sure when they say $5/mon. they mean $5/mon.! Not $300 for 5 years divided by 60!

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Be a successful web hosting reseller.

January 31st, 2011

Web hosting is an exhilarating first business scheme for many people, and while it might sound difficult to begin with; becoming a successful hosting reseller is actually a fairly simple process. In many cases, you don’t even have to do anything apart from sell the services of an established web host through your own website.

It is especially appealing to web designers and developers as an addition to your existing services.

The first step to becoming a web host reseller is to find a web host who offers several website hosting accounts. By taking out a several domain account, you can use one domain for the development of your own site and then set up other domains to clients’ websites. This enables you to pay a regular fee to the web host while charging clients any price you wish.

After setting up your domains to clients, it is preferable to have full administrative control over your clients’ websites. Ensure that your web host provides not only yourself with a control panel that features full administrative facilities to manage your account, but also provides your clients with their own control panel too. Perhaps the most important feature your web host should offer is the facility to hide your web host’s identity, preventing clients from knowing that you are offering a third party service.

It is also essential that your clients have a copy of your terms and conditions, which are vital in any business. While the writing of terms and conditions can be time consuming, many web hosts may let you copy theirs or supply you with terms and conditions specifically written for this purpose. It is also important to provide your clients with fast and reliable support, solving any problems that arise with their websites as soon as possible. Failure to do so will result in unhappy clients and it will also reflect badly on your other services. Tools such as white label guides offered by web hosts can help with this.

One of the best aspects of the business of reseller hosting is that you can start out on this business venture even if you do not have a great deal of expertise. It is also the case that there are times when a reseller can be more scalable than a typical hosting firm, due to true web hosts being limited in its hardware. If a client suddenly requires an upgrade that the host was not prepared for, it will have to go through the time consuming and costly process of upgrading its hardware. A reseller host, however, can simply choose a different web host that will better suit the needs of their customers.

Reseller hosting can be a great profit making venture once you’re up and running and understand the figures and profit margins involved. Buying web space from a major web host is relatively inexpensive and can be redistributed to site owners who need space for uploading their website at a suitable cost. What’s more, some hosts allow customers to oversell the space they buy and do not charge extra unless your account usage go above a certain level, while others offer unlimited web space and bandwidth at no additional cost.

It is said the average user uses less than half of their allotted web space, which means you could double or even triple sell your quota, earning considerably more money in the long run.

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Dedicated Web Hosting.

January 31st, 2011

It is extremely important to recognize the concept of web hosting, even if you don’t know anything about it. When you visit a website, you will see a web page that is downloaded from a web server on your own web browser. Generally the website is composed of many web pages and web sites in turn are composed of graphic images and text. These web pages are stored on web servers so that they can be available to web users. It is good to have an understanding web hosting basics that will allow you to make the right decision when you purchase hosting plan. Often times, You May find everything from a dedicated web hosting provider, and the situation may require you to go to the custom server.

If someone wants to have its own website, it is the first time will have to have a host of services that will host Web sites on the web server. Web hosting provider that was well established, it can host many web sites, to thousands of items, for example, Version Next Technologies is a Web hosting company that is very popular and seats up hundreds of thousand pages. While the host of a large number of web sites, web hosting providers require a huge number of web servers to store Web pages. After that, all those web servers are connected to the Internet and are kept in a ‘data center’. Since web servers must work properly all the time, data centers are fully confident that it gives them 24 / 7 environment and protected from fire, virus detection, redundant power backup, HV AC temperature control, computer data backup, and full of opportunities for recovery in case of some fail.

Your website will need about 10 MB (for a small web site) to 250 MB (for large sites) on the server hard disk. Web-based records will enable you to manage your domain name, e-mail and FTP services, password protect directories, and much more.

There are some disadvantages to a dedicated hosting arrangement. You have to pay high monthly fees in exchange for their freedom and an exclusive web hosting. You will also have good technical know-how to run the server properly and resolve any technical problems that occur. It could be time-consuming, but if you hire someone to do it for you, you’ll have to pay for their services. This would mean that you now have the maintenance costs on the amount you have already, that will not be the case in a shared web hosting.

If a dedicated hosting plan is something you don’t like and want to go for a custom dedicated server, then keep in mind the following:

Data storage – this means the area of your website will need the server’s hard drive.It May ranges from a small town with 10 megabytes of storage for large business sites that require 250 MB or more.

Data transfer or bandwidth, which refers to the amount of data transmitted over electronic networks as a response to the demands of visitors. It depends on the size of your website and the flow of traffic to your site.

You would need a web based control panel too with the help of which you can manage your domain name, e-mail, FTP services, as well as password protection and much more.

When you decide to custom dedicated servers, You May want to include a private CGI-bin, which will allow you to run your own PERL scripts and executable s. With a custom dedicated server, it is also possible to get SSI (Server Side Includes) that you insert a file in your HTML pages on the server side.

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.htaccess Tips and Tricks

January 25th, 2011

.htaccess (hypertext access) is the default name of a directory-level configuration file that allows for decentralized management of web server configuration.

There are tons of things you can do from the htaccess file inside of your web hosting account.  From redirecting the users to controlling who can get in and who can get out, it is a very useful file to have on your hosting account.  To help out the new web hosting clients and to act as a reminder to the old pros around here, I thought I would go through five of the most popular .htaccess tips I know.

Redirect to a Maintenance Page

This is a great one to use if you need to make some quick web page edits, and you don’t want the public to see you edit your web site, while it is still live.

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/offline.html$

RewriteRule .* /offline.html [R=307,L]

This will redirect anybody who checks out any web page on your web site to the “offline.html” file.

Force the Use of “www” in Front of a Domain Name

If you want to keep the www in front of your domain name, no matter how somebody types it in, here is the ‘bit of .htaccess magic you will need:

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine on

rewritecond %{http_host} ^mydomain.com [nc]

rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Once you have done so, both mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com will both send you to www.mydomain.com

Remove the “www” From in Front of a Domain Name

You can also force your domain to drop the www from the address when typed in, if you would rather have it the other way around. In that situation, you would need to add this to your .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mydomain.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

This will make both mydomain.com and www.mydomain.com send you to just mydomain.com.

Manually Create Custom Error Pages

Ever check out some of those customized error pages and wonder how it could be done? Just use these snippets of .htaccess code to tell people where to look for your error pages.

ErrorDocument 400 /errors/400.html

ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.html

ErrorDocument 403 /errors/403.html

ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.html

ErrorDocument 500 /errors/500.html

This tells the server to look inside the “errors” folder and that specific page for each of the different error types. That is not all of the error codes, but they are the ones that will be ‘hit by your users 99 percent of the time.

Block Visitor By IP Address

Need to keep somebody from checking out your web site?  This next tip will give you the ability to deny somebody based on what their IP address is:

order allow,deny

deny from 123.45.6.7

deny from 012.34.5.

allow from all

The above blocks access to the site from 123.45.6.7, and from any sub-domain under the IP block 012.34.5. (012.34.5.1, 012.34.5.2, 012.34.5.3, etc).

Before you go off and plant htaccess everywhere, read through this and make sure you don’t do anything redundant, since it is possible to cause an infinite loop of redirects or errors if you place something weird in the htaccess.

Also…some sites do not allow use of htaccess files, since depending on what they are doing, they can slow down a server overloaded with domains if they are all using htaccess files. I can’t stress this enough: You need to make sure you are allowed to use htaccess before you actually use it. Some things that htaccess can do can compromise a server configuration that has been specifically setup by the admin, so don’t get in trouble.

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Reseller Hosting Can be a New line of business Choice for Web Designers

January 18th, 2011

When we talk about the web hosting industry, we generally can think of two classes- the provider and the client side. One offer the service, while the other utilizes it to run his or her business online. But actually, there is a third side to it too or one can say a service model that lies between these two sides i.e. reseller hosting. This is a competent yet easy-to handle business model that can anytime be blended with any other business model, enabling owner to earn doubled profits.

The option of Reseller hosting services has been opening opportunities for a number of small business owners who are aiming at taking their current revenue stream higher by rendering custom hosting packages to their client base. However, amongst all business models, the one that seems most apt to be united and rendered with reseller hosting package is of web development services. This is why web developers having a consistently growing client base must consider adding web hosting service model to their line of business.

Including the Cost of Services

an ideal way to begin with this is starting to sell all-inclusive packages. Such packages take care of complete site development and management on the basis of a set monthly fee. Typically, this monthly fee includes expenses of hosting, site maintenance and custom design tweaks that are made as per clients’ suggestions. By combining the two services together, you can actually quote a higher price and aim to make a bigger profit. With the added advantage of being a web designer, you may easily convince your client with a convenient package comprising site design, organization and hosting.

Internet Businessmen

pitching for already established online websites or big giants is not very suitable for you since these will already have big hosting plans. Hitting the right set of crowd is very important for business growth at any stage. Hence, rather than opting for experienced online businessmen, it is better to go after offline crowd, since their information and experience in this field would be much limited. Offline business owners who are not technically inclined are more likely to buy reseller plans, and let me tell you this does not limit your targeted crowd.

One thing that is always consistent with every business owner is the aspiration of growing bigger. Be it a medical shop or a giant corporate house, every business wishes to expand more and more, so that they reach to the biggest of podium of clients and customers. Fortunately, World Wide Web successfully fulfills this aspiration of reaching out the masses, economically. Hence for a reseller hosting service provider, the clientele is humongous. Moreover, since you are a web developer who is ready to take up the projects of web hosting services, the combination of offering website development and hosting may pitch your sales much higher.

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Free Web Hosting Might Be a Bad Idea.

January 13th, 2011

Internet is growing very fast. In developing countries, many people have now started using internet. If you want go global with your business or with your hobby, you need web site. To make web site, you will need web space. This web space is provided by hosting service providers. Some hosting provider gives hosting service free of charge. This article has full information about free hosting account.

A webhost essentially provides you with the space and the domain for your web content and as you can tell with a quick search using the Google search engine, there are many free services out there.
Free hosting services, there are many issues attached. The first issue is with the domain name they give. Free hosting providers don’t allow you to choose your own domain names. You will have to select sub domain of the domain name they provide. So your domain name will become lengthier. It’s really hard to remember long domain names.

Free hosting providers put advertising on the hosted web site. This way they generate money to support their hardware and expenses of hosting service. If visitors see the ads which are not related to web site content, then they don’t trust on your writing. When visitors become unhappy, you lose your business.

There is a problem of bandwidth limitation also. Free hosting providers have put restriction on some ways. If free hosting providers don’t put restriction then their maintenance cost will be very high. So they give limited bandwidth. When you reach your bandwidth quota, your account is suspended. So nobody will be able to access your web site.

There are also many technical limitations in free web hosting account. You won’t get any database access. You are simply given ftp access. You are also not provided more secure access like SSH. Today many web sites have become dynamic and use PHP. These PHP support is not provided by free service provider.

The biggest problem we can think of is a suspension of an account. Imagine a situation where you have made your web site, you have given time to promote it and when your web site become famous, your account is disabled for some stupid reason. What will you do? All your attempts to promote your web site is now waste. You can’t do anything.

In my opinion, the only advantage of free web hosting is that it’s free. There is no other advantage but there are many disadvantages. I wouldn’t recommend free web hosting.

After all there is nothing for free in this selfish world.

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Beware of the FAKE web hosting reviews.

January 13th, 2011

Customer reviews are hugely important in the world of ecommerce – they are often the crucial factor in convincing a potential customer to convert and click that ‘Buy Now’ button. For that reason, fake reviews are a massive problem online, and the hosting industry is one of the worst affected areas. Some hosts and a large majority of affiliate marketers will do whatever it takes to make you click on the host they want you to.

As a customer, how can you protect yourself against fake, shill or sock puppet reviews? How can you research potential hosts without being influenced by falsified information? Below, we’ve put together a checklist for spotting fake reviews as well as some top tips for helping you to search and find genuine reviews.

It’s very important to identify these fake reviews. The reviews that are sound too good to be true are likely to be self composed. To identify fake web hosting reviews, we highly recommend following checklist: Look for detail – fake reviews will lack detail because whoever’s writing them will likely have very little real experience of using the host. A proper review will include details such as uptime and customer service anecdotes.

Too good to be genuine ? – No host is the perfect match for everyone all the time, so if a host comes across as too good to be true, you’re probably dealing with a shill reviewer. This is particularly obvious if there’s a whole list of 5-star reviews all saying identically positive things.

Established reviews – the higher quality review sites will grade reviews according to whether they are ‘verified’. There are different ways to do this, but the most common is when the reviewer has to use an email address that comes from a domain hosted by the host they are reviewing.

The ‘look’ – fortunately, most sock puppet reviews are pretty obvious – they just won’t look genuine and you’ll be able to spot them a mile off.

Marketing Speak – a genuine reviewer probably won’t use ‘marketing’ speak (for example, words and phrases like ‘guaranteed’ or ‘100% satisfaction’) when they describe a host, so look out for anything that looks as if it’s been written by the sale department.

Discount code or link – make sure to check where the reviewer links to in their write-up. If a link is broken or looks suspiciously like an affiliate link, you can probably disregard the review.

Timing – if a host has a long list of reviews on a certain site, check the timestamp; you might well find that all the reviews were posted within minutes of each other. Highly suspicious!

Duplicate reviews – a neat little trick to check the validity of a host review is to copy and paste a section of it into Google; if lots of direct matches come up, chances are this is either an automated review, or someone is being paid not very much to litter the web with positive feedback.

Extreme Stars – reviews of either 1 or 5 stars deserve more suspicion than anything in between.

NB. Remember to look out for fake negative reviews as well. Some hosts and their affiliates aren’t above trying to make their competitors look bad to boost themselves up the rankings.

1) Beware of reviews that are sound to good to be true. 2) The customer report should show proof of website hosted with the web hosting company. 3) The customer report should show proof of service uptime, with monthly uptime statistic. 4) Too many positive reviews compare to negative reviews. Via survey, we learn that unsatisfied customer tend to write testimonial online. Happy customers are unlikely to post testimonial voluntary. 5) A professional web hosting review site will have Intel and insider information, and even offering special coupon discount.

How To Search For and Find Genuine Reviews

Running through the above checklist every time you read a review can be a time-consuming business; the best way to avoid shills is to find a source of reviews that are trustworthy in the first place. But that’s easier said than done!

Generally speaking, the more detailed the better (but beware of unnecessary repetitions of product names); once you find a good source of well thought and detailed reviews, consider trying to add your own and see how many hoops you have to jump through to do so – the more the better!

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