Sometimes, reading only web hosting reviews don’t suffice in your search for a good web hosting company that can provide your hosting needs at an affordable price. Those plain review articles are way too limited for you to have a firm decision.

If you want to gain credible advices from experienced people in the web hosting industry, then there are no other good places than web hosting forums. There you can ask almost anything and get relevant answers from different people.

Even the people from hosting companies participate in forums to share their hosting experience, offer hosting solutions, and market their respective hosting plans and services.

Here is the list of the top three most useful web hosting forums that you can find on the Web. I strongly recommend that you register an account to all of them (yes, ALL) and participate with the hosting discussions. Do you know other great web hosting forums? Leave the links at the comments.

WebHosting Talk

WebHosting Talk claims to be the largest and most influential web hosting community on the Internet. Well, I don’t wonder why: try typing “web hosting forum” in Google search and it will list WebHosting Talk on the top spot. I’m certain that this website gets substantial traffic for its great visibility on the Web.

Anyway, anyone can register at WebHosting Talk. Underlining its claims, personally I agree that it is indeed the biggest forum that touches exclusively for web hosting.

WebHosting Talk provides special forums accessible only to its premium members. However, the main forums (and the most useful ones) are accessible to new, regular members. Those places are the perfect venues to gather advices relating to any web hosting topics or plans, learn from other’s experiences, and share your hosting ideas. WebHosting Talk is excellent because it has specific forums for shared hosting, dedicated servers, virtual private servers (VPS), among others.

WebHosting Talk has 181,329 registered members to date. Its forum’s index page has PageRank (PR) level of 6 and ranked #2,933 at Alexa.

SitePoint Forum

I first learned about SitePoint when I completed reading a PHP/MySQL web programming e- book I downloaded from a torrent site and published by them. Because that resource was excellent, I became skeptic about the authors and I ended up on SitePoint forums.

I’ve been a SitePoint member for almost two years and until now, I still find their website very useful to me as a web developer and an Internet enthusiast. They’ve got tons of tutorials and articles, blog posts, videos, books, and other resources not exclusively about web hosting but also other aspects of the Web.

The SitePoint Forum, in particular, remains my greatest point of interest. The forum is well-moderated and carefully divided into different sections arranged in a sequential manner of Web development. If you want to participate to hosting-related threads, you can find the section under “Host Your Site” which has three subcategories: Web Hosting, Server Management, Apache Configuration, and Domain Names.

As of this writing, SitePoint has 233,501 members who actively contributed to over 500,000 threads and over three million posts. The forum’s index page has a PR of 7 and positioned at #782 at Alexa. So, if you want to advertise something or ask help about hosting, you’ll get the best advice from the experts for sure!

Digital Point Forum

Digital Point Forum is another popular online discussion board where webmasters, marketers and advertisers converge. I come to this forum to get new trends in web development and analyze a web host’s reputation by throwing some questions.
Digital Point Forum has six major forum categories that cover topics from search engines, marketing and business to web development design and web products. The web hosting topics are discussed in “Site and Server Administration” under Design and Development category.

As of today, Digital Point Forum has 137,564 members actively participating to over 600,000 threads and over six million posts. Digital Point Forum’s home page has a PR of 6 and ranked #270 at Alexa.