We at top-web-hosters.com are a small group of people dedicated to bringing you a no frills overview service of US based web hosters on the internet. We started this service after we were looking for a new web hosting provider ourselfs. We found that most of the overview and ranking sites for web hosters were not independent at all. We would see a top 3, a top 5 or a top 10 site where all the listed web hosting companies were ranked at a 95%+ level. To top things off, they were all affiliate links. Ofcourse, there is nothing wrong with affiliate links, but the combination of a low amount, all highly ranked and only links to affiliate web hosting sites just did not help us at all selecting a decent web hosting company.
So when we finally bit the dust and selected a web hosting company ourselfs. We immediately used one of their offered free domains to start out www.top-web-hosters.com. A few days of HTML, CSS, PHP, SQL and Javascript coding later and we had a working version of our site. All we had to do now, is to populate our database with the plan information of all the web hosting companies we could think off. This is where we are right now: we have now over 20 web hosting companies in our data base and still adding. We do not include every web hosting company that we find however. The web hoster must offer a plan that allows for 1.0GB of disk storage and 20GB of monthly data transfer rates. Anything below this is nowadays considered inadequate.
As you have probably seen: the front page is where we have our list of web hosters. For each web hoster you will see on the right hand side, the current rating displayed by a series of stars as voted by all our visitors. Each visitor can instantly vote for a web hoster by simply clicking on one of the stars or the no-star icon. No need to hit a submit button or anything: the page will in the background update our database with your vote. When your vote has been registered you will see the color of the stars stay yellow or the non-star icon will remain highlighted. The next time you visit our page you will see the updated rating of the web hoster.
Oh, did we mention the fact that some of our "competitor" sites have your browser dynamically calculate todays date and make it claim they updated their static list of web hosters today? We don't need such a gimmick! Our ranking database is updated every time someone makes a vote and we verify our listed web hoster sites at least once a week for price and plan updates.
We started in mid January of 2006 with this free service and currently we are working on the following new pages where you can:
So please come back in the near future and check out our newly added features.