February 12, 2005

Mega Web Host Comparison Chart: Combined Info From 12 Web Host Review Sites

This morning I did some fairly intensive research into web hosts. I Googled twelve sites that rated web hosts:

10 Cheap Web Hosting
Best 10 Web Hosting
Consumers Review
Hosting Analyst
Hosting Comparison
Hosting Review
Hosting Reviewed
Smart Comparisons
The Hosting Chart
Top 10 Cheap Web Hosting
Web Space Test
Webhosting Top 10

I then:

• Went to each of those sites and copied their top 10 recommended hosts into an Excel spreadsheet.
• Used Excel to average the ranks for each host across all times a given host had been mentioned.

• Used Excel to count the number of mentions for each site.

  I also was very interested in speed. I found two sites that rated or ranked the speed of each host:

  Performance.Toast.Net
  Top 10 Cheap Web Hosting

  So I included that info in the chart as well.

  And here are the results:

  

  Notes:

• Average Rank is on a 1-10 scale, 1 being best.
• The Performance.Toast.Net Speed Test Rank is also a rank, with 1 being the best rank.
• The Top10cheapwebhosting rating is on a 1-20 scale, with 20 being best.
• If Hosting Comparison listed a host as being in the top 5 that offer Fantastico (which makes it easy to install many open-source software packages for image galleries, forums, etc.) that host got an extra mention in the Number of Top 10 Lists column.

• If a host was in the top 10 performance.toast.net listings for speed, that host got an extra mention in the Number of Top 10 Lists column.
  
  

  Update 2-14-05: This site is now hosted by LunarPages.

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