Choosing your web hosting is one of the first things you will do when you want to get a web site up and running, you may be in a rush to get your site up and over look how important a decision this is. One slight hiccup with your host can mean disaster for your site. I’ve recently been looking around at the different web hosting packages that are available from the different companies, some offer free sites, others offer free Google Adwords vouchers. So which one is best?

Whilst browsing I came across a site called web hosting rating. Its a sort of price comparison site for web hosting. As soon as you get on the site you can see the top 10 hosting companies compared side by side along with their monthly price, bandwidth allowance and disk space available for you to use. The best part of it is at the end there is a link to a page that gives you much more information about the hosting plan so you can check to make sure it meets your requirements and at the bottom are the customer reviews. Trust me if someone had had a bad experience with a web host you’d be able to find out about it in one of these reviews.

The reason I stuck around on this site is that they offer a lot more than just the web hosting reviews but they also have a section for web hosting awards where they reward the best web host in a range of fields including email, budget hosting, blog hosting and loads more categories. The section I spent the most time in was the articles section which is full of web hosting tutorials. I spent a good 15 minutes reading through an introduction to ruby on rails and also picked up a few pointers in the article called tips for choosing a domain name.

All in all this site offers a great free service that I’d recommend people searching to either pick a web host or to swap web hosting look into.