Also;
1. You can look at stats in Mags.
2. Decide who offers most of what you want.
3. Decide on the price.

I've used about 4 for different people and found they all have foibles. Some have bad stats. Some have Mickey Mouse standard solutions. e.g. you can have a forum but you can't add, delete or move individual inputs without deleting the lot. Some charge you extra for every little thing. Some make you completely start again if you want to change the level of service and pay an admin charge.

In reply to a post by Kenneth:

Difficult one - as doesn't take much to turn a good company into a bad one (or one user's experience being very different to another's)

When I wanted a host - I looked at threads on here asking for recommend host and went with http://nethosted.co.uk - if they hadn't been great I was prepared to write off the costs and move, but just renewed for another year so and no complaints so far

I'll second that. I've been a customer for over 2 years. Never really had need to contact them apart from once when a payment didn't go through properly - they just do their job and I run my site.

matt

I have been using Hostway for over 3 years now not the cheapest but support is good no down time except for one server upgrade carried out during the night.

Post deleted by billford

agree with Matthew and the others for Nethosted



u can get a ADSLGuide (Old name for TBB) deal @ http://specials.nethosted.co.uk/adslguide/

any issues look for Nethosted's Andrew or Darryl on here... (NH_Andrew / NH_Darryl)

Regards,