Choosing the right web hosting service.

In this time and era of infinite choice, one could think that it would be really easy to pick a web hosting provider... in fact, pick ANY web hosting provider and be merry and on the way to creating a web site.

After searching, reviewing, searching again and reviewing and reviewing again, I found out first hand, that this experience can be quite astonishing, in a bad way.

First of all, there are so many providers out there that it becomes quickly overwhelming to decide which one to pick.
Second, most of the web sites that are supposed to give reviews on these web hosting providers, well, usually give different opinions from "best choice" for one review site, to "avoid at all cost" for another one.
It would not surprise me at all, that some might get commissions for signing up new customers, but this is a different thought I would spare you today.

After reading a guide on http://www.work.com and running a few searches on http://www.business.com , http://www.yahoo.com and http://www.google.com keyword 'web hosting', I decided that the best candidates would be 1and1, godaddy, IX hosting and maybe host department.

However, after running a search with each provider's name and the keyword 'reviews', I was extremely disappointed to find out that the sheer number of negative reviews for all of them. I must say that these opinions must be taken with extreme care, since competitors could simply create bogus comments just to sink the rating of another provider, but still...

So after almost a week of fine tuning my research, I finally decided to go with http://www.bluehost.com
Let's hope I won't have too many problems with them!