Our Basic Goal
Our goal has always been to help you find the very best Web Hosting
services that meets your needs. Its pretty simple, and its the
truth.
There are many places online where you can find negative reviews and attacks on
various Host Industry companies, but you won't find that here. We have always
tried to treat everyone with respect and as friend in the
industry. You won't find us flaming people in the industry. We try to provide
positive information that will help you find the best Web Hosting services.
Our History
Our founder, Ron Dunlap, came from a successful career in the PC industry that
began in the 70's where he staffed and managed technical and test engineering
departments as well as directed product management groups for PC peripheral
companies. He left the industry in 1993 as director of Marketing for Diamond
Multimedia and began consulting full time. Almost immediately, his clients
wanted him to help them put their companies on the Internet. That led Ron to
begin evaluating Web Hosting companies long before there were any Host Finder
sites online. He compiled lists that included the pricing, features and benefits
of Hosting companies, along with their support speed and competence, and
included an unbiased critique of each company so developers and companies he
worked with would be able to choose the best Hosting solutions for their needs.
Less than 2 years later, while still evaluating Web Hosts for his clients,
Ron filled his spare time as a volunteer member of the independent review staff
for the Internet's first Web Host directory, The Ultimate Web Host List. The review
panel studied and reviewed hundreds of Web Host companies and with the help of
an independent test lab, Ron used his valuable Host evaluation experience to
develop a set of review criteria to evaluate Web Hosts using a given set of
weighted criteria and testing methods to reduce subjectivity to a minimum. Each
week, Ron posted his review findings online at a site he created in 1997 called
Web Host Weekly.
After his work with The Ultimate Web Host List, Ron's experience and
reputation in the industry was sought to help new startup companies get their
bearings, including Top Hosts (www.TopHosts.com), Web Host Directory (www.WebHostDir.com), Burlee Networks (www.Burlee.com) and others. Ron remains someone that many Host directories and Web Hosts consult for advice and
information.
In 1999, Ron formed WebHostMagazine.com out of Web Host Weekly to provide a
different approach to traditional Web Host industry information sites. Unlike
other Web Host directories that listed their monthly "Top 10" Web
Hosts based on popularity or advertising revenue, WebHostMagazine.com has always
displayed its
review
testing criteria as well as
how we conduct our
reviews right up front so everyone could see how we did it along with being
totally transparent about who our advertisers were on our reviews. Another
important feature that WebHostMagazine.com did was to add a working
Advertiser
Guarantee that actually protected visitors to our site that bought Web Host
services through our advertisers. Ron wanted WebHostMagazine.com to provide fair
and objective Web Host reviews that could be trusted.Over the past decade Ron
has built a reliable and experienced staff of knowledgeable and hard working
individuals that have deep roots in the Internet and all of us are dedicated to
bringing you the best information on Web Hosting we can find.
While other sites may have copied our basic review style and advertiser guarantee, the one thing
they can't copy is our experience, reputation, and dedication to the Web Hosting
industry.
About Our Reviews
Our Web Hosting Reviews have always been fair and
objective and based on real testing criteria. We have always published our
Review
Criteria and How We Review online and over
the years various aspects of our methods have been copied by other Host
Information Web sites that lack the imagination and ability to do it themselves.
While we know we are not perfect, we believe that no other site provides reviews
that are as fair, objective and as thorough as ours are.
Check out
Why Trust Web Host Magazine & Buyer's Guide for more
information.
About Our Advertisers
Web Host Magazine & Buyer’s Guide is a Web Developer driven Web site. We
accept advertising to meet our operating expenses, but we never jeopardize our
objectivity in our Reviews or other information we provide. Over the years we
have lost many advertisers and many thousands of dollars in advertising fees
because we may not have reviewed an advertiser as high as they expected. We
can't help that. But at the same time we have also earned new friends in the
industry from Web Hosts that took our reviews to heart and improved their sites
in accordance with our analysis. As a result, they have improved their review
scores. Some of them even became advertisers with us. Good or bad, we try to
remain objective and never let advertising or any other incentive prejudice our
review process. Out of fairness and disclosure, each review lists whether that
company was an advertiser when the review was conducted.
Our Advertiser Guarantee
We know that many developers and businesses buy their hosting services by
responding to advertising on our site and our
Advertiser
Guarantee was designed to protect them and our advertisers. Over the years
it has helped many people receive the Hosting services they purchased while
helping to maintain a healthy relationship between both parties. If you are
looking for your next Web Host, we invite you to click on our Advertiser's
banners and text links and visit their sites to see what they have to offer. Our
Advertising Guarantee will back you up.
...and Finally
We are always here to help Web Hosts, Host Finders, Web Developers or anyone
else find the information they need to help make their lives easier, and maybe
even do a better job. If you can't find it online here,
contact
us we'll see what we can do to help you.
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