In the early days of web hosting when you literally take risk with the hosting company you choose to host your website with, aptly name Host Risk could have been handy to warn you of the potential problem or lack of it that awaits you with each of the hosting companies online then.
After being stung by a hosting company that went bust, I remember comparing the advertisers who were still advertising a year or more later in my favourite Internet magazine .Net to decide who to choose to host my company, the thinking was that, if the company has been advertising for two years or more, then it has stand the test of time and the chances of continuing in business for another two year or so is great.
Host Risk provide a similar function to the one I used to put .Net to, just in a different way.
Hosting Risk basically harnesses the power of social collaboration by providing a platform for web hosting user to nominate and rate their hosting company or a hosting company they have first hand information about. Once a hosting company is submitted to Host Risk database, other users of that hosting company can register at Host Risk and give account of their experience of the company in question, awarding the site between one and five starts.
Next time you want to host a website it may be worth checking out Host Risk first and read the hosting review users of the company you are thinking of going with are saying about their services.