Choosing the right webhosting provider proved very difficult, as the vast availability of resources that rank, review, rate, provide testimonials about webhosting providers are contradicting each other; while one says that company X is the best and most reliable, another states that company X is the worst ever. It seems that internet in its glorifying stage of web2.0 -> web3.0 with the new built edifice of reviews and true testimonials has confused the available information into a pile of junk, which makes it impossible to decide where the truth really lies.
In the last month, I have changed my webhosting providers 4 times. I started with FastHosts (they charge monthly fees for having more than 5 e-mail accounts!), moved to Strato (found out that their promise to provide name servers in Nov'06 was not true), I moved on to IX Webhosting (found that the site is down almost every day), now I have moved to Yahoo (waiting for something to happen).
I now turn to forums. Can anyone advise which wehosting provider truly is the most reliable in your experience? I am just looking for a good amount of disk space, bandwidth, good e-mail/web-mail system, and up-time of 99.99%. My site
http://www.dealslocally.com is hopefully up and coming, and I need to get a reliable host.