Methodology for Hosting Evaluation and Сompiling Ranking
Hostings.info provides objective reviews of hosting companies, written by professional website developers. All our reviews are created honestly, without any special biases toward the companies.
Our website receives financial compensation from hosting companies, but this has no impact on their ranking position or the content of our reviews. All rankings are formed using a standardized evaluation algorithm, and the reviews are written by authors independent of the companies.
How Does the Rating Work?
Our team of experts has developed a unique algorithm to give hosting users a full and unbiased evaluation of any hosting company at first glance. We assign points to each hosting company based on our individual and unique methodology. The points range from 0 to 5. The higher the score, the more trust users have in the hosting.
Based on the scores, we create a hosting ranking, with companies that have the highest scores listed at the top.
Hosting Companies with Scores of 5 to 4
These are considered the most reliable in their industry. This means:
- We successfully registered with the company.
- We funded our account with the most convenient payment method (there should be multiple options).
- The technical support team assisted newcomers by answering our questions and helping with the transfer of the old site to the new hosting.
- The hosting has CMSs that can be installed out-of-the-box.
- The hosting offers a variety of services to its users: shared hosting, VPS/VDS, dedicated servers, and possibly even colocation.
Hostings with Scores of 3.9 and 3
We do not consider companies in this group to be unreliable or untrustworthy. It's just that these hosts might not have data centers in multiple parts of the world, which increases website load times for users. They are primarily targeted at users in their specific region. While these hosts are not giants of the industry, they are fully capable of providing high-quality website hosting services, using lightning-fast NVMe drives, free SSL certificates from Let’s Encrypt, and good protection from DDoS attacks. These hosts may have a limited selection of control panels or lack certain “premium” services, but generally, users of shared hosting with small websites rarely have bad experiences with them.
Hosts with Scores Below 3
These hosts have not yet been added to the “blacklist” (all companies on this list are marked with a special label in our catalog), but they may need to reconsider their inflated prices for subpar services. These companies often suffer from overselling, and their website load times may be slow.
Hosting Review
When writing a review, the author considers:
- The reputation of the hosting in the network.
- The overall impression from working with the hosting.
- The registration process.
- The specific features of working with the hosting (convenience and inconveniences).
- Pricing plans.
- Billing cycles.
- Payment methods.
- Control panel.
- OS.
- Security.
- Support service.
We use a checklist of more than 80 points.
User Reviews
User reviews on our website help us evaluate the performance of hosting companies. If a company worsens its service, user reviews help track these changes, make adjustments to the review, and lower the company’s position in the ranking. The same applies to the improvement of service quality. Good reviews help the hosting company climb the ranking.
We verify the legitimacy of reviewers by analyzing their social media accounts. We do not allow fake reviews!
Hosting Activity
We welcome the activity of hosting company representatives on our site and evaluate the quality of their interaction with users, including:
- Their responses to users.
- Their resolution of controversial issues.
- Customer orientation.
We understand that any company may face controversial issues or complex situations, so the correct and timely resolution of these matters adds positives and minimizes negatives for the company.
Important! All conclusions are based on practical experience.
