When evaluating cloud hosting services, we focus on several key factors to ensure that our recommendations are reliable and well-informed.
First, the practical test. Having worked with several large international IT companies in the US, Taiwan, and Japan, I have professional experience with every cloud hosting service on our main list except DigitalOcean.
My experience with DigitalOcean comes from running individual sites, including a US site that previously had over 500,000 visitors per month (until Google disputed this). Accessories Update) and another recently launched in Japan.
This experience allows me, to the best of my ability, to reach user experience, ease of setup, cost, performance metrics (i.e. uptime, load times, etc.), and overall functionality.
The contributors to these recommendations also have experience developing and running websites on a variety of platforms, including both basic sites and e-commerce stores.
Then there is customer feedback. The problem with reviews is that you can’t take one person’s word for it. Collecting hundreds of review ratings and comments from real users helps us assess services from other perspectives and get closer to the “truth”.
Then, of course, we compare features, pricing, and security, as these elements can vary over time and between providers.
Finally, we conduct additional research on each provider, including a review of industry reports, expert opinions, and the company’s overall reputation in the market.
Combining years of practical experience, feedback from real users, and other research, we are able to properly evaluate these cloud services and provide practical and reliable cloud hosting recommendations.
