Now I often get asked which top 10 list is better than the best, and honestly it is pretty hard to tell these days. Inside of the Web hosting industry it seems like everybody and their grandmother has a top 10 list of Web hosts.
How can you tell which ones are just there to reap the rewards of affiliate links and which ones really do some work to figure out which host is best?
Well the first tip that I can share with you when it comes to learning how to read these lists is to look for a good explanation about how they figure out who is the best. If it is not on the Web site somewhere, E-mail them and ask how they figure out the rankings. One good example of this in action is over at WebHostingUnleashed.com. Here is how they explain the top hosts list they have.
“These hosts have more than 15 positive reviews and are recommended by at least 90% of the reviewers.”
That sounds like a reasonable and fair explanation. Now the kind of explanation you want to stay away from would be like this.
“We have a secret lab where we hire midgets to pull lottery balls out of a bucket with the Web hosts’ names on them, and then sort those by the midget’s height.”
Who are some of the other good top 10 lists that I trust? Well, I tend to like the comparison shopping engines a little better than the top 10 lists personally. My favorites there would be:
There are others out there as well that give you good results. So what do you think is the most important thing to watch out for with these top 10 lists? Do you think they are all crooked or are some of them honest?
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