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If you are looking for a web host the thing you should look at the most is reliability. By surveying people who run sites and people who run online stores, this has become clear.

The concept of reliability is complicated. One can suppose that the majority of web hosting firms meet a minimal level of technical competence, have regularly invested in upgrades to their computers, and offer decent pricing plans. Based on these assumptions, a major component of web hosting reliability is delivering traditional, high-quality customer service.

In other words, what you really want to know is, "When there is a problem with my website, can I get speedy no-nonsense solutions?" But with web hosts the "no-nonsense" thing can be a problem.

If you have ever talked to a web host technical support person you get the impression they are handling three or four calls all at the same time. That's because they have thousands of clients, and often the problems come in waves. And that can lead to frustrating conversations with your tech person.

A good technical support person will use a helpful tone of voice and offer solutions. They will assume that you are basically competent and not automatically assume that you have somehow caused the problem at your end. After all, they are most qualified to check out problems at their end.

In a lot of cases this is the best approach, because the problem is occurring on the user's end of things. Unfortunately, a lot of cases does not equal all the cases. When the problem is not on the user's end, and the user has spent a lot of time only to find the problem was on the server's end, it can be frustrating.

Historically, it has been very inconvenient to change web hosts. Therefore, web hosting tech support people have had little incentive to provide high quality customer service. Too often, they seem to consider themselves employing their clients and not the other way around. No surprise, their customer service has been inferior.

Thankfully this is changing. There is enough step-by-step information available to help you change hosts without too much difficulty, and many hosts will actually help you transfer your domain to their system.

When searching for quality, dependable, user-friendly service you will find that there is not a totally guaranteed method to know in advance if you have found it.

While you could look at review sites for web hosts, keep in mind that not all are as they appear. Some are trying to make money by reselling services, and their reviews are colored by the money they might make. Representatives of web hosts can make posts on public boards anonymously. These people can post a review that says their own host is great, and make up bad things about the competitors.

Web hosting forums provide a convenient place to read comments and recommendations. However, remember that web hosting forums are also open to the type of manipulation discussed above. Also, comments quickly become outdated due to the changing nature of the web hosting business. Nevertheless, comments and recommendations may be helpful and are generally reliable.

It is a good idea to look at the host's website. A very complicated site full of technical descriptions shows a lack of communication between the host and clients. This can be a bad sign. The technical support may be difficult to access, and the support staff may not answer your question in a way you can understand.

A simple layout with a minimum number of customer-oriented products and an easily-accessed support system suggests the company is customer-focused. It is also good to contact the customer help desk in advance just to see what kind of reception you get.

You should also look for testimonials from real web hosting customers. Make sure they are clearly identified with names and website addresses. If you really want to be aggressive, you might contact some of these people directly.

Considering how competitive the business of web-hosting is, finding an easy to follow, customer driven host is definitely what you should be looking for. But of course, none of this will be fool-proof.

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