Hosting Reviews Reviewed

There are loads of websites claiming to offer advice on hosing and present themselves as experts. The problem is, anyone with a website seems to be an experts these days. None of them offer any credentials or show any form of experience, education or proof that they even have the smallest clue what they are talking about.

What most of them do share in common is that they get paid by the companies for promoting them.

This is very common and understandable, we even run our own affiliate program for website hosting to help bring in traffic. But we do not ask anyone to lie or misrepresent our service and I expect our competitors do the same.

That does not prevent anyone from lying or making up facts in the interest of lining their own pockets with cash.

So what you need to know about 90% of the website hosting review sites is that they are self serving and only benefit the site owner. They don't care if your site is crap, as long as they get paid for sending you to the host.

You can look up almost any website host and find complaints I am sure pageBuzz is included in that sea of unhappy customers. While our customers generally complain they did not make any money with their website of business other hosts clients complain about no help, no service, servers down for days at a time, site closed for no reason and so on.

The issue with the complaints is that the bigger you are the more you will have complaints. We strongly suggest you look up complaints about a potential host and find out what people are saying. There are loads of people saying the company is great, but they are being paid to do that. It is unlikely that anyone is paid to complain about a host.

Nine out of ten unhappy customers will go out of their way to complain, post bad comments and just abuse the host they are unhappy with. While only one of ten happy customers will ever post anything nice. So complaints should outweigh the good comments if all stands true to form.

The truly annoying part about website hosting review sites is that the people making the claims don't know anything about hosting. They know marketing and have your ear as they rant about how great these hosts are and what you need to run a website. But do they know how to run a website? Do they understand what a server is? Do they have any experience running a website hosting business?

In almost every case, they don't know anything at all.

So when they tell you you only need a basic plan or to use an unlimited hosting service that is cheap, can you or should you trust that information?

While we talk about the internet and the information age, it should really be called "The MIS-Information Age". There are more sites that make up information or skew facts to make money than there are sites that truly educate people with no benefit to the website owner.

Hey, we are a commercial website as well and we are going to tell you what benefits our business. While we will never lie, we only address facts that help our cause and may not always provide a complete picture. Not because we are hiding something, but because we have to focus on our service and not discuss 10,000 other options or considerations you may have.

If you can find a website run by a University of College they will give you more detail and hopefully a better understanding of what you need. If you see ads, links to outside hosts and rave reviews of the top 10 hosting companies then you can assume that the information is not serving your best interest.

It really does disturb us when so many resources exist that tell people what they need in website hosting, but none run by website hosts. None run by experts, none with real information that is in anyway helpful to people looking for a website.

I have always compared the internet to the 1849 Gold Rush. Very few people every got rich mining gold, but many people did get rich selling shovels, buckets and other supplies to the hoards of people heading west.

Everyone experts to get rich running a website and the people making the most money are the ones that tell you that you will get rich, just sign up here!

You need to watch your back. Don't trust anything you read and look for clues that tell you a website is reviewing a website host only to make money by getting you to sign up.

The hardest part about running a website hosting company is trying to compete with all the scammers out there. If they offer a hosting plan at $2.99 per month, then everyone thinks that is all a website should cost.

I guess it is like the scams the banks ran on home loans. People bought homes for $500 a month only to find out that was only for 2 years and now the payment is $1500 a month. That almost crashed our economy.

It seems like people never learn. They always look for the quick and easy road to get rich, the better deal and the best offer. As long as there are suckers out there, hosting review sites will keep luring them in and making money off of them.

Hey, losing a few bucks on a bad website host is nothing compared to losing your home. It just seems like people would start to learn that deals that look too good to be true always are.

Do yourself a favor if you are looking for a website hosting company for your website. Spend more that 15 minutes doing research. Learn what you really need to know and watch out for all the "Experts" that have no idea what they are talking about. Try to refer to actual experts in the industry, educators, actual host and resources that can be trusted. Don't every depend on one resource and compare what experts say, not all experts share the same opinions.

At pagebuzz.com we have 15 years of website hosting experience, system and server administration and running websites in general. We certainly know what we are doing, but we don't have the time to create articles and how to lists on how to run a website hosting company. We do things much differently than other website hosts and value our intellectual property, so we are not always quick to share our secrets or give complete disclosure on how our software works.

We do provide ample resources on building websites, seo and marketing. But when it comes to hosting we remain relatively quiet. That will be the case with almost all professional website hosting companies and that leaves the door wide open for the scammers to post any information they choose and appear to be experts on the subject.

If you think anything of what I am saying is not true, consult the FTC. Website hosting is one of the top 10 scams on their watch list. That does not make any look good. Still, the service is needed to run the internet and most of the hosts are honest and reliable, but it is very easy to get sucked into a scam especially if you trust one of those top ten website hosting review sites.