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Stay secure on the Internet while making a purchase!
I know this blog is mostly about shared web hosting and about tutorials and help manuals related to shared hosting, but I think that online security is a very important thing and it relates in some ways to web hosting. It relates to web hosting in the way you should not get yourself exposed to some fraudulent offers, fake review sites, fake hosting companies etc. . There are many ways how to protect yourself and your friends from those, but you must be willing to listen and use the techniques to protect your money an nerves 
Fake review sites
I would say, that a very easy way to determine whether a review site is fake or not is to look at their reviews… Too many great reviews, and reviews of only the biggest hosting companies is a good sign. Big hosting companies do have the money to pay high affiliate money and thus these “review sites”, as they like to call themselves, like to post reviews about these hosting companies. They make a good review, although they never had a package with them, and post a few “customer experience reviews/comments” after their review. It places very well in a Google search [they use SEO techniques to make the rank high] and then you read this review, click the link that appears just under/over/on the side of the review and they make profit… They most of the time don’t care about your bad experience after you buy a package… They have made money, this is what matters for them!
To make sure you will not get caught into this is to use more than one review site, but be prepared that many sites are owned by one person/company and thus you can find a site named XY and than one named ZX and all the reviews and comments are the same…
The big help here are the hosting forums. On the forums you will be able to find many people ready to give you their opinion on different companies and many of them do have real experience with more than just one of them! The more members a forum has the more trustworthy it should be! What’s even better is, that you could meet some hosting company owners on these forums and ask questions directly! My favorite forum is webhostingtalk.com, but there are more of them. Just make a Google search for “hosting forum” or “webhosting forum” and you should get some good results!
Fradulant offers & Fake hosts
These are hard to uncover, but you can still do it! It just needs your active work. The easiest way to find out whether a company is good and reliable is to ask [once again] at forums. There are many people able to help you and many of them do have the KNOW-HOW to find out whether a company is trustworthy or not. I would like to mention, that many times some people from the “hosting business” do know each other and thus could give you valuable info about other companies!
One very important thing o remember [ok, some very important things] is you should always make sure, that the website you are entering your personal data into is encrypted! This means your data Mystique theme by digitalnature | Powered by WordPress are transmitted over the Internet in a secure way! You can find this out by looking at the address bar of your browser. The address should start with HTPPS:// and I would personally never go with a company not using a https secured transmission during sign up.
Well, today I jut wanted to make sure you will not get into trouble on your search. It is great to find a web host with cheap prices and one who fits your needs, but always be prepared to make sure you are going the secure road! Check HTTPS during sign up, check your future host at forums and try to figure out some own techniques on how to make yourself more secure!
You can leave some of your ideas about this topic in the comment area, or you could leave some of your own experience Have a nice day!
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