Archive for December, 2008
There’s certainly no shortage of web hosting directory and review sites online today. Our estimates put the figure at over 1000, all pledging to help you find the ‘best’ host for your needs. Unfortunately however there is a setback. Hosting directories and review sites fall into 3 categories.
- Honest review/directory sites who are owned by companies wishing to help the user
- Review/directory sites owned by hosting companies, wishing to direct more traffic to themselves
- Review/directory sites owned by affiliate markters, wishing to direct traffic to their highest paying affiliate links
No marks for guessing which two are the most popular.
Whilst we have no objections to sites being run as businesses with the goals of profitability, some sites take this to the extreme. Some directory/review sites REFUSE to give us an honest listing because we do not want to work with them. They deliberately give us a low ranking or bad reviews, simply because we want honesty. A perfect example is http://www.vistainter.com/reviews/W/webhostingbuzz.com/. Our rating on here isn’t great and after reading through every single review, I could only find a handful I could link back to actual clients of ours. As we do not advertise with them, we get false reviews and a bad rating…. which is hardly fair.
Without wanting to get too much into a legal loop hole, our motto of the story is look for real reviews when searching for a web host. We elected to setup our Facebook page where clients can post real reviews and you can verify their authenticity by checking out the Facebook account. There’s no way to forge these and we’re proud of the reviews we get on Facebook.
So the moral of the story? Take the directory sites with a pinch of salt and do real research before deciding. If the directory consists of advert after advert, avoid it. You’ll see at many directories, the top 10 lists of hosting company are the same — those that payout the highest affiliate payouts. These top lists do not reflect how good the hosting company is.
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We had a great month once again with nearly all web servers giving us 100% uptime. The following report was taken from our internal network monitoring software and is pasted below. If you are a new visitor and would like to get an affordable website hosting solution, kindly consider our web hosting plans.
Shared Web Hosting Servers
| alpha.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| asteroid.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| athena.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| bear.ultrawhb.com | 100.00% |
| business2.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| cat.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| cheetah.ultrawhb.com | 100.00% |
| comet.fastwhb.com | 100.00% |
| fish.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| fox.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| galaxy.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| gold.whbdns.com | 99.70% |
| hr1.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| hr2.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| hr3.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| hr4.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| intense1.intensewhb.com | 100.00% |
| manatee.ultrawhb.com | 99.84% |
| milkyway.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| moon.whbdns.com | 99.99% |
| panda.ultrawhb.com | 100.00% |
| planet.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| sd1.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| shared1.ultrawhb.com | 100.00% |
| shared2.ultrawhb.com | 100.00% |
| shared3.ultrawhb.com | 100.00% |
| shared4.ultrawhb.com | 100.00% |
| shared5.ultrawhb.com | 100.00% |
| shared6.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| shared7.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| shared8.whbdns.com | 99.95% |
| shared9.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| shark.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| sky.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| solaris.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| ss1.webhostingbuzz.com | 100.00% |
| ss2.webhostingbuzz.com | 100.00% |
| ss3.webhostingbuzz.com | 100.00% |
| ss4.webhostingbuzz.com | 100.00% |
| ss5.webhostingbuzz.com | 100.00% |
| ss6.webhostingbuzz.com | 100.00% |
| star.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| sun.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| usa.ultrawhb.com | 100.00% |
| venus.whbdns.com | 99.96% |
| zeus.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
Reseller Web Hosting Servers
| rs1.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs2.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs3.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs4.whbdns.com | 99.97% |
| rs5.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs6.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs7.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs9.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs10.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs11.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs12.whbdns.com | 100% |
| rs14.whbdns.com | 100% |
| rs15.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs16.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
| rs17.whbdns.com | 100.00% |
VPS Web Hosting Servers
| vps1.whbdns.com | 100.000% |
| vps2.whbdns.com | 100.000% |
| vps3.whbdns.com | 100.000% |
| vps4.whbdns.com | 100.000% |
Thank you very much once again.
We’ve updated our terms and conditions a little. Full details are at http://www.webhostingbuzz.com/forum/company-announcements/4186-new-terms-and-conditions.html
We recently announced our commitment to offer 24×7 support over the Christmas and New Year period. Many other companies close up shop for a day, some even longer (a couple of years ago, CI Host announced they were closing for an entire week!).
For us, it isn’t a hard decision to make. Work for us isn’t all that taxing and all of our team enjoy what we do. We also care our us as a business, our customers and our servers. So our team is more than happy to come in on Christmas day and do what we do best. No doubt we’ll have a mini Christmas party and the atmosphere will be lively and enjoyable!
Rumor has it there will also be a large New Years party… I will endeavour to post some pictures on our Facebook…