In this era of citizen journalism and the rise of small business on the Internet, the web hosting marketplace has become increasingly competitive and crowded, with web hosting providers constantly battling to offer more web hosting for less. It can be a confusing and overwhelming task to find and then properly compare between the many web hosting companies and plans available to the consumer. A new website was launched today called Top9Hosting.com that aims to make the consumer's task much easier by offering one place to find, understand, and compare the top web hosting providers.

Top9Hosting.com recently published their own company spotlight on BIZZspotlight.com, and also distributed a press release today which I reproduce here:

(PRWEB) May 24, 2007 – Top9Hosting.com, a new website offering free rankings and reviews of the top online web hosting providers, was recently launched this month, May 2007. Top9Hosting.com provides web hosting company rankings and reviews for all the major categories of web hosting: ASP.net hosting, basic web hosting, cheap hosting, dedicated hosting, e-commerce web hosting, PHP hosting, reseller hosting, shared web hosting, Unix/Linux web hosting, and Windows web hosting. The website hosting provider reviews and rankings were determined by webmasters and web power users.

Top9Hosting.com is free to access and use. The company is based in Orange County, California, and is independent—it does not own or operate a web hosting company. Top9Hosting offers a variety of tools for the web hosting information seeker. A written review is provided of each web hosting company that Top9Hosting feels is a top web hosting company. Each review is comprised of a summary and explanation of various characteristics and features of the particular website hosting provider, such as company history, price value, hosting packages, reliability & server uptime, customer service, and software and tools offered.

Each web hosting provider review gives a Top9 Scorecard for the specific web hosting provider, conferring scores on such features as price, features, bandwidth, hosting space, reliability, ease-of-use, and customer service. The scores for the various features are then compiled into an overall “Top9 Score” for the web hosting provider, with a score of 100 being the best possible. Each web hosting review also summarizes the “Top Features” of the web hosting provider.

Each web hosting ranking list is sortable by column—the user can click the different column headers to sort and rank the list according to that column’s website hosting feature. A glossary of web hosting terms and user-generated web hosting articles will also be offered on Top9Hosting.com. Top9Hosting is currently seeking submissions from readers for these web hosting glossary terms and readers’ own web hosting reviews and articles. 

About Top9Hosting.com
Top9Hosting.com is a website providing free web hosting reviews and rankings of the top online web hosting providers. The company is based in Orange County, California, and is independent—it does not own or operate a web hosting company. Top9Hosting.com provides rankings for all major categories of web hosting. Top9Hosting.com offers reviews that consist of a summary and explanation of the web hosting company, a unique scorecard and ranking for each company, and a list of top features of the company. The rankings and reviews were created by webmasters and web power users.
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