If you reviewed my last post you will see that I got data that showed that Webhostingstuff.com was deleting negative feedback from people that are in their top 25 rankings. At the same time the post I showed the link to, which I hesitate to post again because that link belongs to a hosting company. But if your incline to look you can go to the previous post. Granted I am going to turn the authors idea into my own, I doubt there is a problem as we both seem to be on the same page in regards to webhosting review scams. I will also be posting links of other companies into my blog. The author of that post said that the September 2008 rankings made no sense. I am incline to agree with the author. Clearly any review site that allows outside input should be base off of hosting customer rankings, data sorted by approval rating / amount of ratings. I am excluding the rest of the data as there is no relevance in regards to customer satisfaction. Not to mention I am not a big fan of unlimited hosting, but that is a post for another day. Based off their data that they publicly disclose, this is the order, this is ideally how their rankings should look:
- LFC Hosting / 23 / 100% / 52
- Essentials Hosting / 11 / 100% / 50
- HostGator / 5 / 100% / 39
- Arvixe Web Solutions / 4 / 100% / 38
- Scala Hosting / 21 / 100% / 32
- InMotion Hosting / 6 / 100% / 21
- Omnis Network / 13 / 100% / 16
- ThePrimeHost / 25 / 100% / 13
- iPage / 1 / 100% / 11
- nativespace / 8 / 100% / 11
- Interactive Online / 9 / 100% / 9
- Identity Website Hosting .. / 14 / 100% / 7
- Greenville Host / 12 / 100% / 6
- Netmar / 24 / 100% / 6
- IoxHost / 10 / 100% / 5
- Steadfast Networks / 22 / 100% / 3
- Cloud.bg / 18 /100% / 2
- Just Host / 2 / 80% / 141
- MochaHost / 7 / 80% / 79
- Site5.com / 15 / 80% / 25
- 2GB Hosting / 16 / 80%/ 21
- FatCow Web Hosting / 3 / 80% / 9
- Green Geeks / 17 / 80% / 8
- Indichosts.net / 20 / 80% / 7
- iWeb Technologies Inc. / 19 / 60% / 9
Strangely the site that should be number 1, is listed as a ranking of 23 making it almost dead last. While at the other extreme 2 would be number 18. I have no idea why any site with less then 80% are even listed in this ranking. Let alone a site with 60%. In all honesty its been my experience people are less likely to say nice things about you, so a 100% approval rating seems unlikely especially with 52 reviews. Given Hostgator’s supposed reputation, I find it surprising that they only have 39 reviews. Perhaps that is the amount that are willing to say 100% nice things about them. Strangely 4 and 6 are the only ones in the right spot, as I am sure that this is nothing more then a coincidence.
