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How did you review these web hosts?
We used every single web host that we reviewed. We signed up for each one using a different domain, and performed various tasks we think a user would go through, focusing on the needs of a beginning user. This included installing Wordpress, using the sitebuilders, and installing shopping cart programs. We also uploaded an 83 megabyte test site to each web host, timing the transfer, and then viewing a 78 megabyte movie that we uploaded with the site, to see how quickly data was transferred. The 8-minute video file was not optimized for the web, so we consider it a pretty demanding test. Our results would not be typical for a video made for online streaming. Finally, we made an attempt to contact a customer service representative at each web host to judge the quality and availability of the technical support.
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