Hosting Speeds
One of the marketing techniques favouredby hosting companies is boasting about services included in the package they offer you. It is not uncommon for some hosting companies to claim that they give you more web space, larger bandwidth,100% up time, more mailboxes, faster server etc etc. Most of this claims you can easily verify but the claim of a faster server is rather difficult to verify by a normal consumer, that is where the services of Hosting Speeds comes into the equation.
Hosting Speeds, an ambitious project that ranks participating web hosting companies from allover the world by the speed of their server, giving potently web hosting customers and independent hosting speeds comparison site. This could help you confirm whether the server speed claim of a host is true or not.
Hosting Speeds V2
Hosting Speeds, the brainchild of Jan Paul ten Wolde, a lawyer by day and an Internet buff in his spare time, started in 2005, it grew much larger than Jan Paul ten Wolde (affectionately know as JP) which lead to the project being partly abandoned in late 2006 or early 2007. The popularity of the project was immense, with people contacting JP requesting that Hosting Speeds is brought back to life. JP finally agreed to bring Hosting Speeds project back online with announcement about the new version of Hosting Speeds on the project’s website.
Hosting Speeds Reloaded (V3)
The new version of hosting speeds have 4 PHP programmers queue helping JP code the latest version which boast of more bell and whistle than the previous versions including easy to use Hosting Speeds plug-in client for popular applications such as WordPress, Joomla and others. This new addition to how you can implement Hosting Speeds client is an excellent move.
Coding of the new version will also be leaner, cleaner using latest web technologies such as Web 2.0, Ajax and other to get the best out the base programming language of Hosting Speeds; PHP.
Next time you want TO verify the speed a hosting company claims to deliver, Hosting Speeds should be your first port of call. A lively forum where you can exchange ideas, chat with hosting providers and other hosting consumer is also part of the project, the forum can be found at Hosting Speeds Forums.