Nowadays, finding the right web providers in the Philippines are quite complex but this can be answered it terms of what is your business requirements.

In general, most web hosting provider locally differs on their feature items i.e. disk space capacity, bandwidth, security, free apps etc but what may help you decide is on their level of support and commitment to innovate further their services in the future.

Scenarios:

1. Some are cheaper because they are only resellers and offers shared hosting services. However, their servers may easily become saturated and clogged when it gets bigger. Some shared hosting may exceed and use shared resources and you may experience downtime.

2. Some are expensive and yet with almost same feature list but may offer a better customer support which locally is one of the major and wide issues when it comes to service provisions.

3. Some are expensive but you may want to check out the type of servers and its technical specifications differs from the rest.

4. There are free webhosting accounts, why do you need to subscribe to a paid/premium hosting?

Most of the free accounts have hidden limits that quite to notice if you only have a basic starter website.  Issues may come when you reach to a point where you need a specific function/feature like making a backup of your database, moving of your webfiles, transferring of your domain name, price of your domain name if you transfer out and some may have eventual advertisements. Not complying to these kind of limits may result an instant shutdown of your account. Besides, its all for free, right? what can you do about it, claim your customer’s rights? Goodluck!

5. How do I choose whether to subscribe to a local hosting or to a foreign web hosting like dreamhost, networksolutions, godaddy?

- If you dont have a credit card, then I recommend you to subscribe to a local hosting provider plus if you do need to talk someone in “tagalog”, bilingual and personal, get a local.  If you can use a credit card, then subscribe to any foreign hosting just make sure you know who are reliable. Technical support may vary, some are responsive if they can handle your request but some may just ignore you or even just cancel your account without prior notice, your risk is you dont have any means to complain further to anyone.