January 31, 2007; 03:48 AM
HostSearch.com is celebrating 10 years
as the Internet’s leading web hosting directory, it was announced
this week. Starting life in 1997, the website has maintained the top
position despite the rise of a multitude of similar sites over the
last decade.
“As you can imagine, we are very
happy to have reached this milestone,” explained the CEO and
Founder of HostSearch.com, Mr. Charnchon Lavitrangsima. “We were
very fortunate to recognize a niche emerging as web hosting began to
take shape as an industry. We launched HostSearch.com when web
hosting was still in its infancy and as the industry matured a number
of websites similar to HostSearch.com emerged. Despite this, we are
glad to have maintained our position as the Internet’s leading
directory”.
HostSearch.com was one of the first web
hosting sites to offer a searchable database with details about web
hosting providers and their products and services. The current
database represents the largest resource of information about web
hosts available in any medium. Users looking for web hosting
providers simply enter information about the type of web hosting they
require alongside their budgets and HostSearch.com generates a list
of web hosting providers that meet their requirements.
HostSearch.com also allows people with
firsthand experience of a web host’s services to offer a rating of
a host’s service and leave comments. “This is the main strength
of the site,” suggested HostSearch.com’s Web Editor John Hughes.
“There are many sites around that monitor hosts for uptime and
technical issues, but I think these details can appear a bit distant
if they aren’t put in a human context. A report about a host having
X% downtime could never mean as much to someone as reading what that
downtime meant to a host’s customer. Customer service provides
value added for web hosts and, again, here’s an area where
statistics like ‘average call response time 5 minutes’ really do
not represent the quality of support a host provides - this can
really only be reflected through personal experience and
HostSearch.com enables users to share experience.”
Alongside providing a database of
reviews and ratings, HostSearch.com also offers a wealth of
information of interest to web hosting users. The site has a bank of
quality articles covering all aspects of web hosting alongside
interviews with web hosting players, a daily round up of the
industry’s news and Host Tour – a section of the site where web
hosts post pictures of their staff and premises and present their
human face. The site also offers one of the Internet’s liveliest
web hosting forums.
HostSearch also provides a complete range of
advertising options for web hosting providers. Alongside traditional
banner and button advertising, the site offers bidding options, where
hosts can bid to improve their position in site’s search results, and
Host Quote – where people looking for web hosting submit their
requirements directly to web hosts.
Discussing what has kept
HostSearch.com at the top of its field over the years, Mr.
Lavitrangsima suggested, “It has been a mixture of innovation and
perspiration really. It is hard work, but we honestly appreciate
providing a window on an industry that does not have a shop front store
that customers can visit. It’s a nice feeling knowing that
HostSearch.com has made such a positive contribution to web hosting for
such a long time.”
About HostSearch.com
HostSearch.com was
established in 1997 and provides unbiased information about web hosting
providers and the web hosting industry. The site maintains the largest
database of information about web hosts available and continually
upgrades its service to ensure the information it provides meets the
requirements of its visitors. To learn more about HostSearch.com visit
http://www.hostsearch.com.
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