03-09-2006, 01:09 PM
Quote:The complex development of the reseller hosting business, and the relative ease with which just about anyone can create private-labeled hosting company has created a great deal of healthy competition within the industry - a situation that tends to benefit the average hosting customer. Unfortunately for that average customer, the ease of setting up a Web hosting business means that there is also no shortage of pretenders.
And for every unqualified or unreliable Web hosting company, there are dozens - at least - of dissatisfied customers, many of them inclined to believe that Web hosts are thieves, guilty of false advertising, poor performance and unreliable support.
Many of those customers are guilty, too, of failing to research before making their purchases, or being sucked in by low prices. The "buyer beware" principle applies in Web hosting as much as in any other business.
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