HI! I was wondering today about what’s the best source for a general human to search for some web hosting offers. As you might know I am not very keen to believe the different “review web sites” as many of them just do not offer you a independent reviews and opinions. And thus I am much more happy with different forums where you are able to get so much more back. You are able to speak to people who used the host previously. You are able to ask question a representative who is also a member of the forum. and there are some more advantages. All in all a hosting forums is in my opinion a much better place for finding good and trustworthy answers to your questions.
Why to trust hosting forums?
Frankly, I think you for sure asked this question. My answer is as previously stated: a forum is a mix of humans. There are so many different people registered, that you are able to get your questions answered just in a couple of minutes. I know not all of the answers are really great, but they at least try to be helpful. And the most important part of all -> the answers and opinions are independent and provided by more than one human 
At first it might seem very chaotic, but I think, there is no beter place to ask questions and get them answered really quickly… . All the forums do offer you the option t search trough different categories to find exactly what you are searching for. The answers to your questions are just a few keystrokes away
Why are review sites not like forums?
I believe, that most of the review sites started with a really good aim. They wanted to help the casual user to find the right host. They provided hosting reviews and opinions, but somewhere down the road they realized, that they need money to stay up. And they started to sell ad space.
First they used AdSense and other ad networks and then the opportunity came and hosting companies started to offer them affiliate money to promote a certain host in a certain place for a certain amount of money. And this is what I dislike a lot. While on a review site you, are distracted by so many affiliate ad’s, that you start to ask yourself if it’s really true what the site owner writes on the web site! Is the opinion of the owner or review person really independent? Or how can they actually review 50+ sites in under 1 year?
For instance I only provide reviews of hosts I was with and this takes a lot of time I have written an 1and1 review [although it has not been fully published, yet] and I am currently working on a review of Hawkhost. I was with each of them for at least 6 months! How can someone review a host he has never been a customer of?
And the result of my last paragraph is, that it’s very hard for me to trust someone who has not thoroughly tested the company before and another big minus is, that user submitted ratings of hosting companies of these review sites are easily misused… .
I don’t say to ignore review sites or to don’t use them, but be always aware, that not all of them should be 100% trusted and, that from time to time some of them [the bad apples] provide opinions based on cash they can generate… Always try to perform a good search and the results of such a search should not be based only on one sources, but the sources should be consisted of 3 and more sites
To be continued….Have a nice and sunny day
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