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.