Our Ethos
We’ve talked about how our reviews are better and our team. Read on to find out why we’re doing things differently.
Why We’re Different
Our business model is different from 99.9% of hosting reviews sites for one simple reason: We believe in long-term relationships.
We’ve talked elsewhere about how sleazy many ‘hosting reviews‘ sites are: shill reviews, pay-for-placement, outright lies etc. However, as well as the obvious moral implications, this approach just doesn’t make good business sense.
We believe that honest reviews & useful information to help you choose a host mean a more profitable business for us in the long run. If you can’t find honest, useful information now – why the hell would you ever come back?
Our hope is that you’ll use our site time and again – like if you choose to upgrade from shared hosting to a VPS. Or when your neighbour asks for help choosing hosting for WordPress. Heck, maybe your boss might ask for suggestions for wiki hosting for work one day.
We could play the fly-by-night game that most hosting reviews sites choose. But, in the long term, we’d lose out big time and. And, frankly, we’d also lose sleep at night.
Our Dream Scenario
You want to create a website. You use our search function and reviews to do your research and you find the perfect host. All goes well and your business starts to take off. Before too long, you decide you want an host upgrade.
You’ll remember how useful we were and will visit us again. Because you like the service, you’ll make the decision to use one of our special links to make your next purchase.
Then you’ll go and recommend us on your 50,000 subscriber blog (hey, this is our dream, remember?)
How You Can Help…
The referral fees we receive are how we survive as a business (more on that on our ‘full disclosure’ page). It doesn’t cost you anything extra and it means we can keep delivering the same high-quality service.
And if you did actually blog about us? Well, endorsements like that count for so much, so you’d directly be supporting us in our efforts to make the hosting industry an all round better place.
It’s the second best thing you can do for us after buying via our site. See our ‘spread the word‘ page for some of the wonderful things our users have said about us (and be sure to contact us if you’ve something we ought to add there).
Further Reading
We’ve come across a small number of hosting review sites that share a similar ethos to ours, such as WHReviews.com. If you’re looking for more hosting reviews, be sure to check out their site.