With so many web hosting companies in market, choosing a right web host for any webmaster can be quite difficult. To help with this there are many web hosting review websites in the market providing you with the reviews and ratings for different web hosting companies. But not all these review sites are as reliable as they claim.

Most of the times these review sites are nothing but the mere advertising sites created by that particular host itself. Others may be affiliated to that particular web host. So, they rate their web hosting as the best and way ahead of other competitors. You can imagine what will be standard of any web hosting company resorting to such practice. But there are a few honest and reliable web hosting review sites, which provide you with an honest review for any web hosting company.

The most trustworthy of these web hosting review sites is WebHostingGeeks. The expert team at WebHostingGeeks, provides you with all you need to know about web hosting. They provide you with Web Hosting rating and awards in different categories. They help you choose the best shared server hosting and also the best dedicated server hosting in market. At WebHostingGeeks, they provide a detailed star-rating for various aspects that one shall look for while choosing a web host. They provide you with the most salient features offered exclusively by that web host. In addition to reviews by the WebHostingGeeks team, they also provide user reviews which makes them more unbiased.

They also provide you rating and reviews about the Green Hosting, which rarely seen with other such review sites. With increasing awareness about environment and need to preserve it, many webmasters prefer eco-friendly web hosts, referred to as Green Hosts. If you are the one, who loves nature nature and want to help preserve it, go for Green Hosts.

In addition to these, they also provide very useful articles related to various aspects of web hosting. So, even if you are a complete beginner, you can check out these articles and get a basic idea of what to look for in your web host.

Hence, if you are looking for a good, honest, reliable and useful web hosting review site, there is none better than WebHostingGeeks.

Having your own website is very important these days. It can be used to earn money online or to promote your business. Now to host your site you need some Web Hosting Company which are in plenty today.

So, how to choose a suitable host for your site from thousands available. No worries there are many Web Hosting Review sites available for your help. But did you ever think whether these review sites are genuine.

If you Google for “Web Hosting Reviews” you will a long list of sites providing starred reviews, often arranged in ‘best on top’ pattern. But most of these review sites are not genuine. You may want to consider some potential problems with these so-called Web Hosting Review sites.

It can happen that Web Hosting Review site is owned by some Web Hosting Company itself. Obviously the review site will place it’s company on the top. So, the review site is just a promotional gimmick to increase sales.

In other case, though the site is not owned by the Web Hosting Company, it may have some affection for some Hosting company. As can happen if the reveiw site owner is a friend of the Web Hosting Company.

In third case, which is more common, the sole purpose of Web Hosting Review Site is to earn commission. This tactic is potentially more dangerous, as this is usually employed by Web Hosts with a bad reputation. These hosts give higher commissions to review sites and thus get higher stars in their reviews. Ultimately you are the one at loosing end.

You should keep these facts in mind next time you visit any web hosting review site or else you would end up with a poor quality web hosts.

Now how to find genuine reviews then. For this, I think that none is going to write a full review for any Web Host for free without any commission. So you should not look for full reviews. Instead you should join different Webmasters and Webhosting related forums and check out the discussions their. Better webhosts will have good feedbacks in most forums. This will definitely help you get a better host.

I was previously hosting this blog on a small webhost – 2gbhosting,because it was cheap. But I decided  to move this blog  and  my other  sites to Bluehost as soon as my hosting plan at 2gbhosting is completed which was due in May’09.

But have to move it a lot earlier.The main reason being my forum – webmasters-forum.org .I recently purchased the license for vbseo script for my forum which cost me $149. But after installing it on my forum,there were some redirecting errors. I contacted my webhost about this,they said their do not support url redirection. I had no option other than to change my host.

I chose Bluehost for hosting both this blog and my forum. Though it have many features, the main reason I chose it was – host multiple domains on one hosting plan.This feature was in addition to unlimited diskspace( it’s 1500 GB) and also unmetered bandwidth (it’s also 1500 GB). I also did some research about Bluehost – its support,its uptime, etc. And found that everything is fine with Bluehost.

But one thing I didnt like Bluehost while purchasing a hosting plan, that they have raised their prices. I checked a few days earlier(15 days), it was $7.95/month for one year and $6.95/month for 2 years. But now they have made it – $8.95/mo. for 1year , $7.95/mo. for 2 years and $6.95/mo. for 3 years. But I still found it reasonable as compared to its competitors.

Now as I have shifted to another host with Apache mod_rewrite enabled server, I got rid of 404 permalink error , and from now I’ll make regular posts.