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The world of web hosting always has its fair share of confusion, fed up customers, new hosting providers big and small and everything in between.

Quite often, well all of the time actually, theres usually a few threads across the web hosting and webmaster forums giving out warnings to others about bad experiences.

Naturally for most people they will take heed and avoid the bad web hosts and go looking elsewhere, often on recommendation by others or by doing plenty of homework on a new provider before signing up with them.

Though what some people dont instantly give thought to, is that a number of web hosting providers might be owned by a larger parent company.

Sometimes there are companies that will either start up a few web hosting companies or might gradually buy up a few over time, and if you’re not aware of this you might be signing up with a new web hosting provider that is owned by the same people of the one that you are choosing to leave.

You might wonder how this wont be obvious if for example one seems to have a good repuation while the other doesn’t, but its not unheard of for all types of companies to provide great service in one area of their business and quite poor service in another.

It can be quite easy to find out if this is the case with a bit of research on the provider, if they are large and established there can often be a lot of information about them online and usually someone has already announced who owns what.
It can help you to make better decisions once you know who you are becoming a customer of.