As a board member of a startup who is going to go full scale into hosting and web development, I would like to get user feedback. It would greatly help our company provide excellent support, and features if you would post what you desire in a host. Please post features, support that you want in a host.

Regards,

I want a host that won't start spurious "polls", "surveys", or "hypotheticals", and that will read the forum rules before thinking it's a good thing to start threads like this in the general area. Lack of attention to detail is all this new but old thread shows.

Actually I spend several minutes decided where to post this forum, I thought general would be a good place because it is more a less general, I couldn't decided on a catigory to better fit it.

Which do you recommend? Recommend one and I will see if I can get the moderator to move it.

Thanks!

Try the advertising area or (maybe) the general conversation area. The mods won't take a solid stance on surveys and the like, but

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/index.php?action=forum-rules

I didn't mean for it to be a poll of sorts, or just for my benifit, I figured it would be nice if people could post on features they like about their current host, or things they don't like, sorta a good read for all hosting companies. Regards.

Sorry if I'm starting trouble <grins>

Well, (ignoring the flamage and answering the original question) here's my list of criteria:

1. Cost. Don't make me pay for what I don't use. If I want to make a website which takes up 1MB of disk space and gets 10 hits per day, I want to pay less than someone who has a 50 MB website and 10000 hits per day.

2. Security. If the operating system is anything Microsoft, I'm looking for a different host. If the operating system is Redhat linux, ditto. If it is FreeBSD or OpenBSD (and is set up properly), I'm happy.

3. Stability. It has to work. All my email has to arrive, and my website must be accessible at least 99.99% of the time.

4. Features. I need a shell account that I can use. Meaning I want at very least gcc, csh, perl, lynx-ssl, and elm available to me.

5. Support for what you provide. If something isn't working, I want to have it fixed quickly. The opposite applies as well: If everything is working properly, I don't want you wasting your time on people who shouldn't be writing web pages anyway.