The web hosting hints website is designed to help the small business owners and webmasters to gather information on web hosting companies and make the best choice possible.

Because it's so important to work with a top web host, I will post web hosting tips about who I think are the best hosting companies now. A web hosting company is a very strategic partner, you need a reliable partner with a great support team and strong infrastructure to begin with.



One thing to know is that I don't work with the free hosting companies, and these kind of web host. The reason is quite simple, I've seen companies go out of business really fast, and customers loosing all their websites/files when they had no backups, and if they had backups, it's still a lot of trouble if you bought your domain there, you'll get a couple of days of downtime... So for these and a lot more, I only work with reliable web hosts.

Here are some of the aspects I look into when analysing web hosts:

• Reputation
• Size of company
• Infrastructure
• Online forum posts from customers
• Variety of packages
• Prices
• FAQ section
• Delay of response from an email to the support team
• SSH access possible
• Other services like MS Exchange, eCommerce, Webmail, sharepoint...
• Linux and Windows hosting

These are just some of the items on my checklist. I usually also try hosting a website for a month or two to see how is everything, page load time... So be sure that the web hosts I mention on my website are strong and secure web hosting companies.