I have some clients and they ask me where to sign up for a package... But I have no place to guide them to...

Post your site and I will consider it... If it looks like a quaility webhost!


-thanks

Best thing for you to do is do some searches on this board and do some research.

Pretty much all companies that are going to reply to this are going to say that they are the best and why not direct your customers to them.

Do some searches on what you are looking for. I am sure that you will find many that you will feel comfortable sending your business to.

First, you need to specify what kind of "package." General hosting for a .com site? Ecommerce hosting?

Also, hosts may not promote themselves in this forum.

scroll down these boards and see which hosts have been recommended by genuine customers.. you will get a good idea.

The one thing I would suggest is definetly look for more than pricing. Since you're going to be referring your clients to this hosting company, make sure it's a solid company, otherwise it's going to reflect poorly on yourself. So just choose wisely and compare.

I suggest trying the company out first. That way you will be able to give your customers your opinion from actual experience... If not, searches on this board are very helpful

I agree with Jwise. Try a few out first.
I am sure if you posted in the shared WH forums, most would give you a trial account for free, but you may want to sign up annonymously to get a better view of them. You could even save a few bux, by emailing the support with questions before signing up, and see what answers they give you and how long it takes.
Now for the question we all have been wondering: Where is your account, and why don't you like them enough to suggest them?

It depends are you after linux or windows based hosting or do you want one company with one point of contact for both?

Best of luck with your search...

Find out what your clients' needs are.
Find a host that can provide a range of packages to meet their needs.

Yeah, really good suggestion. You definetly don't want five web sites with five different hosts. The management of all those different accounts and all the paperwork will give you a hard time. Try to find one host that can handle what you need to put online. Good luck!

Well it would be easier if you had your own host that you could refer clients to....this is whats done most often....word of mouth advertising for the host...plus the new client is usually pretty positive about signing up somewhere that his best friend "recommends" and has been happy with.
If you are just going to "pick a host" I would definitely recommend doing some research!
Good Luck ;)

Originally posted by The_Mike_g
I have some clients and they ask me where to sign up for a package... But I have no place to guide them to...

Post your site and I will consider it... If it looks like a quaility webhost!


-thanks

Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris?
What Price Point targets are you looking for?
What are the hard drive space, and bandwidth requirements?
Are the looking for single or multi-domain accounts?
Do they need IP addresses for the domains or is namebased ok?
Do they need PHP, SQL, SSL, ASP, JSP, or Telnet/Shell Access?
What are the streaming audio/video requirements?

There are several hosts to choose from. Keep in mind that its 50-50 here. Half good, half bad. I'm sure many can tell you who not to refer clients to.

I won't touch Microsoft hosting, especially after what happened this weekend.
I use pair Networks (FreeBSD). Very flexible plans with good path to upgrades.
I use AlwaysWebHosting (Linux). (you already heard from him)

I have used Verio (FreeBSD), Venture Online (Linux), and Superb (Linux). I did not have any downtime issues with them. Service was OK. At the time they were a little behind the curve for what I needed. The later two have progressed nicely.

Bewares (from personal experience):
C_I_Host (sorta hard to find threads with real name, ask Chicken why)
FeaturePrice (also check the threads)
Host2Own (aka CariNet) (Cobalt shop... client "your server is not responding", support "oh are we down?" geez)
OLM (check the add-on prices)

I won't touch Microsoft hosting, especially after what happened this weekend.
Thats a bit rought, perhaps you don't understand what happened? It was MS SQL servers NOT IIS servers

Even for those using MS SQL, the situation could have been easily avoided if they had applied the security patches which were made available. It was those which did not which paid the price and made others suffer with it.

Besides, the Linux servers are safe from exploit. It was not too long ago that they were a target of the OpenSSH exploit.

Of course, anything M$ might get more publicity then the Linux exploits.

Basically, no matter what operating system you use, as long as you do not actively secure the server, you are still open to exploits.