Day 1

One fine day, we pick up the phone and call the web host we decided to review. We ask few stupid questions about the services offered. We see the responses and the record our first impressions.

Day 2

The next day we go online to their website and chat with live help if any. We browse through the pages and find the information we are looking for. We see how well their site is organized and how easy is it for a consumer to understand the services offered.

Day 3

We go online to their site again and try to chat with someone or call someone to see if they can answer some additional questions. We really do not want to go all over again and explain everything we asked in the previous days. We see if we can get the same support person to provide further help. We look for the host be smart enough to know us we are a repeat visitor, and hook us up with the same support person or at least the new person to know what we spoke the previous days.

Many consumers agree with us because, they all have several questions and they all take a few days to decide by shopping around. We have noticed the pattern where consumers hesitate to spend a few dollars on a webhost, while they will spend over 100 dollars in the blink of an eye on a Mall trip or to walmart or grocery store!

Day 4

We simply go online and place the order. We carefully record everything that happens during the checkout process. We do not like when hosts try to sell additional unnecessary packages when you are already at the point to fill in the credit card information. (If you have enough experience you will know what we are talking about! For example domain name resellers, having a website made out of templates or business card printing sites..!)

Day 5

We wait and check our emails constantly. Once we receive the mail we see how clean and descriptive the welcome email is and then we get our hands on the server. We also check if any special requests have been implemented correctly. (For example hard drive partitioning etc.)

Day 6-10

We play around with our server and control panel. Based on the package we purchased we test several aspects of the package. We upload our test site and test several functions. We open support tickets and evaluate responses.

Days 11-30

We open few other support tickets including one emergency "SITE DOWN" ticket. We also do stress test with several hits to our site.

Days 31-50

We continue to monitor the sites and hosting package and run several tests to evaluate network speed, ping times and monitor for 100% uptime. During this period our editors compose the review and ratings. Also during this period we run polls and gather data from polls and the "Ranks" database for this particular host from consumers themselves.

Day 51

We finish up the review and ratings and publish it on DedicatedHostingReview.com. We do not publish hosts that receive a FAIL grade.  We also award the "Dedicated Hosting Review" seal to the hosts that has a PASS grade. The "Dedicated Hosting Review - Top5" seal will be given to hosts that has received ranking in the top 5 hosts.  (Seal displayed on the left-side)