I have spent around one month searching various different web hosts and here is what I found out. I started with the most well known web hosts like HostGator and BlueHost, since they are the most popular and for some reason most people use them. So naturally I thought they must be good or provide a good hosting service, well, no. Based on real people’s reviews, I found that both hosts have a average of 2/5 stars. I also found out hosting is a dirty business with biased manipulated affiliate reviews and even though I myself am a affiliate with BlueHost, Hostpapa and others I didn’t want to simply promote a service and tell people its so good when what seemed to be real people were saying otherwise. I never simply said BlueHost or hostpapa are great so sign-up but I tried my best to keep it balanced, searching for pros and cons and trying to get the least biased reviews, I could find, but the problem was all blogs with reviews were affiliates and it was mostly always biased, why? Because they have a steak in the game, so what I was reading about HostGator having such great service etc, well, it was not matching my experience with them at all. I found out that HostGator are absolute cheaters and BlueHost is not much better. So I decided that’s it, I have to try to find what real people say, the good and bad and tell people what they say and I can’t cherry code it. I than searched for hostpapa reviews and I found great reviews by what appeared to be real users on one site and I found other major hosts on that site with poor reviews which what was matching what I read on other sites so I concluded the hostpapa reviews must be accurate and didn’t think to look further, latter while searching google, I noticed a site with many reviews rating hostpapa with very poor ratings, so I concluded they must also be a bad host or at least there is a big risk to use them.
I next found InMotion hosting and found they have lots of good reviews on the same site I found hostpapa reviews but this time I looked for other sites and read what others had to say and looked past the first page of google as those pages are usually affiliates and I didn’t find any bad review until last night where I found them rated 3/5 by many users which was also a bad sign. Next, I searched SiteGround and I found them rated the best on the same site I found InMotion hosting and the hostpapa reviews but I learned from my mistake and searched further and found mainly good reviews until I found them rated 2/5 on yelp so again that raised red flags and other websites: Web Hosting Reviews and HostGator Sucks- Find Out Why, HostPapa Reviews!
And I heard many people advice using godaddy but with a quick search on google I find them rated horribly as well. And 1&1 also has horrible ratings.
So here is my conclusion so far, Out of all hosts, my honest opinion based on all reviews I have seen is that InMotion has the least poor reviews on average, I expected SiteGround would have been the best but since I found a 1/5 or 2/5 star rating on yelp by around 30 people, that raised red flags. I can’t say for sure if InMotion is a good host but I tried to search without bias and that is my opinion so far regarding the well known hosts. And I am a affiliate with BlueHost and Hostpapa and InMotion Hosting but I didn’t advice the first two based on the fact they had lots of poor reviews and Hostpapa had less poor reviews then Bluehost but it still raised red flags because on one site they had lots of poor reviews, more then I would consider a okay amount. I hope I was able to offer real advice about this.