I've been looking for a new host recently, and to be honest I'm at a loss. It seems to me that pretty much every host I look at has 99.9% uptime, all the same features (Cpanel, mysql, bla bla), and with shared hosting the upload/download speeds are largely the same if we ignore the huge websites like bluehost, hostgator, etc. and the costs for hosting small websites is ridiculously cheap everywhere.
So what I was wondering was how do you go about determining which web host to choose? Do you go by hosting review sites, or personal recommendations from friends? The only discernible feature I can think of is customer service, which I would probably say is the biggest thing influencing me right now, but with so many companies out there you would think some of them would be able to differentiate themselves. Or perhaps I'm just missing something obvious.
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I've been looking for a new host recently, and to be honest I'm at a loss. It seems to me that pretty much every host I look at has 99.9% uptime, all the same features (Cpanel, mysql, bla bla), and with shared hosting the upload/download speeds are largely the same if we ignore the huge websites like bluehost, hostgator, etc. and the costs for hosting small websites is ridiculously cheap everywhere.
So what I was wondering was how do you go about determining which web host to choose? Do you go by hosting review sites, or personal recommendations from friends? The only discernible feature I can think of is customer service, which I would probably say is the biggest thing influencing me right now, but with so many companies out there you would think some of them would be able to differentiate themselves. Or perhaps I'm just missing something obvious.
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