With so many web hosting services to choose from on the internet today, where do you go to find a reliable and affordable web hosting provider? The task can be daunting. Searching the Internet for hours, trying to find testimonials or reviews, which validate one particular site over the next, can be tiring and difficult.

When it comes to your personal or business assets being handed off to someone else, like a web host, you have every reason to be diligent in your search. If you plan on building an ecommerce web hosting solution, you will be trusting numerous daily transactions with your web hosts. Paypal transactions, credit card transactions, confidential customer names and contact information will all be stored on your web hosting server. That’s why security, reputation, reliability and customer support are critical elements to look for when deciding on your web hosting services.

So what is a reliable web host and where can you find them? First you need to understand that there is no 100% guarantee on problems free with web hosting. Your own PC is great, but no matter how great they are, your computer will still have problems won’t they? Same concept applies to web hosting (server computer).

Here is a list of criteria that we take into considerations for a reliability web hosting service:-

* Uptime of hosting service (which reflects quality of hardware & maintenance)
* Customer support - including a comprehensive of support system exp: live chat, ticket system, phone call and etc (those who responds quick is definitely reliable as they could solve your problems fast)
* User friendliness of web hosting (how user friendly a hosting control panel is actually not directly show the reliability of system but that does reflect the initiative of the company in providing a better service to customers - so we take it as one of the reliability criteria)

These 3 criteria is enough to determine whether a web hosting reliable or not but it is not enough to determine whether a quality hosting. This is because when we mention quality it will involve the features of their hosting plans and etc.

It is important to compare web hosting service providers for plans, their prices, features, bonuses. It is important to remember that there is no such thing as one best web hosting service. Why? Because there are too many variables for the kind of services each customer needs.

Dreamlevel Studios has been using different webhosting companies for many years. We also host some of our clients websites on our private servers. We can help our clients with the difficult task to find the right hosting solution for their specific needs, and we can help finding a reliable and trustworthy host at that.