{"id":1763,"date":"2017-01-17T02:47:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T07:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2017-01-17T02:47:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T07:47:22","slug":"review-signals-best-web-hosting-companies-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewsignal.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/review-signals-best-web-hosting-companies-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Review Signal\u2019s Best Web Hosting Companies in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

2016 Year in Review<\/h2>\n

I like to take this opportunity to look back at the year and see how Review Signal has changed. This past year we added\u00a0~36,000 new reviews. Added one new company:\u00a0WebFaction<\/a>. 49.6% of reviews were positive overall. 52.1% of unique reviews were positive. What is interesting about the difference is that people with negative things to say were more likely to send multiple negative messages, but as a whole more individual people said positive things than negative.<\/p>\n

This year was also full of interesting articles that took advantage of our unique position in the web hosting review space. The WordPress Hosting Performance Benchmarks (2016)<\/a> was the biggest hit as usual. It grew massively in size\/scope and tested companies across multiple price tiers up to Enterprise WordPress Hosting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I also wrote about the Dirty, Slimy Secrets of the Web Hosting Review Underworld<\/a>. I also tracked some major changes with The Rise and Fall of A Small Orange<\/a> and The Sinking of Site 5<\/a> which tracked Endurance International Group acquisitions and how their ratings fell post-acquisition. A Small Orange's fall from grace even caused the first ranking algorithm update<\/a> on Review Signal's history.<\/p>\n

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Best Shared Hosting 2016 \u2013 SiteGround<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] (74.2%)<\/p>\n

Best Specialty Hosting 2016 \u2013 FlyWheel<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] (83.7%)<\/p>\n

Best Managed VPS Hosting 2016\u00a0\u2013 KnownHost<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] (80.9%)<\/p>\n

Best Unmanaged VPS Hosting 2016\u00a0\u2013 Digital Ocean<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] (71.3%)<\/p>\n

Best Support 2016 \u2013 SiteGround<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>] \u00a0(80.81%).\u00a0KnownHost<\/a>\u00a0[Reviews<\/a>], LiquidWeb<\/a> [Reviews<\/a>], WiredTree<\/a> [Reviews<\/a>] all tied for second at 80% (WiredTree was acquired by LiquidWeb in 2016).<\/p>\n

A big congratulations goes out to all of this years winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2016 Year in Review I like to take this opportunity to look back at the year and see how Review Signal has changed. This past year we added\u00a0~36,000 new reviews. Added one new company:\u00a0WebFaction. 49.6% of reviews were positive overall. 52.1% of unique reviews were positive. What is interesting about the difference is that people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[18,17,25,127,132,19,137,50,203,48],"class_list":["post-1763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-review-signal-news","tag-a-small-orange","tag-awards-2","tag-digital-ocean","tag-flywheel","tag-knownhost","tag-liquidweb","tag-site5","tag-siteground","tag-wiredtree","tag-wordpress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t