Reviews
It is good practice when considering doing business with a company to see what other people think of the company in question and whether they would recommend the company to others.
Review Centre and Trust Pilot are two of the major review sites, there are others.
In addition to providing comments on the service received from the company a reviewer is invited to give the company a star rating from one to five stars (five stars being a very high recommendation, and one star in effect being a recommendation to avoid using the company). When a company has been reviewed many times, hundreds or even thousands of reviews then a fair picture emerges of whether the reviewers as a whole recommend the company or not. Whilst a five star rating might seem good, if there are only two reviews on the review site it does not neccessarily give a representative picture of the companies performance (similarly a one star rating recorded against a company by again just two reveiwers might not be respresenative of the performance of the company)
At the time of preparing this page Review centre displayed 883 different companies reviewed that were described as Web Hosting Companies (they may also have offered domain registration) many of them being reviewed less than 10 times. In the table below I list Web Hosting Companies on the Review Centre site at the time of preparing the page in both descending order of star rating and number of reviews.
Web Hosting Companies
| Company Name | Review Centre | Star rating | No of reviews | Trust Pilot | Star rating | No of reviews |
| Unlimited Web Hosting | Review Centre | 4.9 | 1499 + | Trust Pilot | 9.5 | 724 |
| Smart Hosting | Review Centre | 4.9 | 746 + | Trust Pilot | 9.1 | 637 |
| Krystal | Review Centre | 5 | 126 | Trust Pilot | 9.8 | 491 |
| GigaPros | Review Centre | 4.8 | 646 + | Trust Pilot | 6.9 | 8 |
| Host-Ed | Review Centre | 4.9 | 162 + | Trust Pilot | 7.2 | 13 |
| KVC Webhosting | Review Centre | 4.8 | 222 | Trust Pilot | Not listed | Not listed |
| JustHostMe | Review Centre | 4.7 | 699 | Trust Pilot | 7.6 | 23 |
| InMotion Hosting | Review Centre | 4.7 | 399 | Trust Pilot | 7.7 | 103 |
| 34SP | Review Centre | 4.7 | 204 | Trust Pilot | 9.5 | 10 |
| Free Virtual Servers | Review Centre | 4.6 | 576 | Trust Pilot | 9.1 | 354 |
| Hosting.co.uk | Review Centre | 4.6 | 82 | Trust Pilot | 7.4 | 10 |
| Unlimited GB | Review Centre | 4.5 | 173 | Trust Pilot | 8.5 | 143 |
| CWCS | Review Centre | 4.5 | 126 | Trust Pilot | 9.0 | 111 |
| Titan Internet | Review Centre | 4.4 | 293 | Trust Pilot | 8.8 | 34 |
| Webhosting Hub | Review Centre | 4.4 | 139 | Trust Pilot | 5 | 16 |
| Dataflame | Review Centre | 4.3 | 422 | Trust Pilot | 8.1 | 8 |
| Global Gold | Review Centre | 4.3 | 257 | Trust Pilot | 8.3 | 25 |
| Freezone | Review Centre | 4.3 | 254 + | Trust Pilot | 9.3 | 106 |
| Siteground | Review Centre | 4.3 | 69 | Trust Pilot | 9.7 | 1158 |
| Easyspace | Review Centre | 3.2 | 517 | Trust Pilot | 8.1 | 556 |
Notes: Review Centre ratings are out of a maximum of 5, Trust Pilot ratings are out of a maximum of 10. Potential Communications does not receive payments from companies mentioned on this page other than JustHostMe. Potential Communications is an affiliate of JustHostMe and receives commision on purchase made via the affilate link.
Michael Fowler
Other articles by Michael Fowler:
Choosing a Webhosting company - Michael Fowler
What to consider when deciding on a webhosting company, recommendation that you consider uk based webshosting company Just Host Me.
Choosing a Webform provider - Michael Fowler
The advantages of using webforms compared with e-mail links, the features you should consider when choosing a webform provider with the recommendation that you consider Ireland based Aidaform
Free Domain names - Michael Fowler
Discussion of the Pros and Cons of Free domains, popular free domains available and their suitability for different websites.
Free E-Mail - Michael Fowler
Discussion of the inadequacies of isp e-mail addresses and the free e-mail alternatives available.
Free Hosting - Michael Fowler
The Pros and Cons of using free hosting. A review of the free hosting available in the early days of the internet (1990 - 2000) and the free hosting options available today.
