How We Review
The Review Process
For the editor reviews we sign up for hosting just as any user would. We also pay for all of our own hosting.
The initial installation and domain configuration is done as any user would. After the initial install is complete, sometimes we will use the one click installers to try them out. Our editors work through all of the standard settings and features offered by the hosting companies.
Once the blog is set up and running we will monitor its uptime and speed using Pingdom which is an uptime monitoring service. If you have not used an uptime monitoring service we highly recommend Pingdom. You will be very surprised as what you will learn.
Additionally we are sure to ask tech support a few standard questions as well as a few difficult ones to see how they respond.
Rating Scale
We grade on a 5 point scale. Not sure what a 2 or a 4 means Lets put some values with those numbers:
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5 Awesome/Excellent
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4 Pretty good or Above Average
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3 Minimum standard or Average
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2 Disappointing
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1 Made us Mad, we got very frustrated
Publishing the Review
After we have tested the hosting company usually for several months we will publish our review. The review is worked into the post body so that it is easy to be found and read by all.
If the hosting company is one of our top picks we will keep the site hosted there so we can stay current with the hosting company.
Just to mention again: We pay for the hosting ourselves, sometimes we use coupons but only ones that are available to everyone. By not not accepting free hosting we do not feel that we owe the hosting company anything allowing our reviews to be objective.
