Finding the best web hosting plan is the most headache work when you have got your requirement defined. There are thousands of web hosting company around the world, and they provide different kinds of web hosting service with confusing advertisement. And what's the best one for you, are they scammed, or do I pay too much? A lot of question coming to you. So, let's make it simple, the whole process to find a web hosting plan can be summarized as: Find a reliable web hosting company which can provide the service you need with reasonable price.

So, you need to know what web hosting companies you can trust to so that you can feel comfortable to host your site there. Below are some general criteria to find a reliable web hosting company:

• At least 2 years web hosting experience in web hosting industry. They will need so long to prove they are the reliable web hosting companies.
• Provide Money Back Guarantee. That's part of evident that they feel comfortable with their own service and would like give you a trial period, usually you will be provided 30 days to try their service, some even give you 90 days, such as 1and1
• Very good customer feedback and have gain the reputation in the web hosting industry
  • Very competitive price which can give you a feeling like they worth it.
  • Reliable system with good standing on uptime.
  • Very good support system. Usually, the problem can be resolved in 1 day. And for critical web hosting plan, need to provide 24*7 phone support
  • Start to gain the award in web hosting industry.
  • Easy to use Control Panel

How can you find those reliable web hosting companies out from thousand of service providers? The most common ways you will think about is to leverage Google. You will search for web hosting companies, and then try to visit some forum and see the customer feedback of them. You will have to spend hundreds of hours to purchase a service which might only cost you less $100 per year since you know the important of finding a reliable place to host your web site. 

Now you have already decided the domain name for your web site and understood what kind of web hosting plan you will need (Please refer to Select a Best Domain Name, Determine Web Hosting Needs), but when you go into the web hosting market, you will find it's hard to find a plan can meet all your requirement. Either price too high or the bandwidth is not enough, etc. This is part of life, nothing can be perfect. So you will need to choose the most important factors from your requirement lists, and compare the web hosting plan to see which one can fit for you most.