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Currently, I am using affiliate programs of the hosting providers for revenue, but I am looking into putting some ads as well. Reliability data of hosting prov

by medius 15y ago

Currently, I am using affiliate programs of the hosting providers for revenue, but I am looking into putting some ads as well. Reliability data of hosting providers is something I definitely want to add. I agree that saving a few dollars should not be the priority, but the search at least narrows down the choices from thousands of plans to a select few.

DanielStraight 15y ago
I guess what I'm getting at is that I want reviews, not data. I'm with Linode because lots of people love Linode and because they seem to treat customers well. I wouldn't switch hosts even if someone was offering the same thing (in terms of ram, disk and bandwidth) for free. For comparison, if I made a website for picking a hotel and it showed the price, square footage, sheet thread count and number of TV channels, would I be able to take traffic away from TripAdvisor? Of course not. A hotel could offer a 1000 sq ft room with 1200 thread count sheets and 500 channels for $5 and it could still be the worst hotel on Earth.
- medius 15y ago
  I completely agree with you. In fact, I use Linode too and am very happy with their service even though there are cheaper options out there. Webeiu supports reviews, but it's difficult to have a lot of reviews when starting out. If there was a reliable website with reviews (like Yelp for restaurants), I would show the ratings from that website. Most of the review information about hosts seems to be scattered around in forums, comments, blogs, etc. I have added Alexa and Google ratings to the website pages. These don't mean much for hosting providers, but if people are talking about them, then they will probably have better ranking. I would definitely welcome any suggestions about a good source of reviews and ratings.
  - DanielStraight 15y ago
    I would say try to do what Raveable does with hotels (aside from the hopelessly broken UI). Parse and quantify the reviews that are out there. Crawl the scattered reviews in forums, comments, blogs and find a way to analyze, weigh and present them in an easily digestible form.

by medius 15y ago

DanielStraight 15y ago

I guess what I'm getting at is that I want reviews, not data. I'm with Linode because lots of people love Linode and because they seem to treat customers well. I wouldn't switch hosts even if someone was offering the same thing (in terms of ram, disk and bandwidth) for free. For comparison, if I made a website for picking a hotel and it showed the price, square footage, sheet thread count and number of TV channels, would I be able to take traffic away from TripAdvisor? Of course not. A hotel could offer a 1000 sq ft room with 1200 thread count sheets and 500 channels for $5 and it could still be the worst hotel on Earth.

medius 15y ago
I completely agree with you. In fact, I use Linode too and am very happy with their service even though there are cheaper options out there. Webeiu supports reviews, but it's difficult to have a lot of reviews when starting out. If there was a reliable website with reviews (like Yelp for restaurants), I would show the ratings from that website. Most of the review information about hosts seems to be scattered around in forums, comments, blogs, etc. I have added Alexa and Google ratings to the website pages. These don't mean much for hosting providers, but if people are talking about them, then they will probably have better ranking. I would definitely welcome any suggestions about a good source of reviews and ratings.
- DanielStraight 15y ago
  I would say try to do what Raveable does with hotels (aside from the hopelessly broken UI). Parse and quantify the reviews that are out there. Crawl the scattered reviews in forums, comments, blogs and find a way to analyze, weigh and present them in an easily digestible form.