How can I get a good web hosting

[Ohiosweetheart]

Hostww.net - the best, in my experience.

[twist]

The best reason I have found to pay more to get good hosting is this,

Whats an hour of your time worth? Lets lowball it and say $6 (about 3 pounds)

So your time is worth $6/hour.

You find a host for $10/month or $120/year.

Lets say during an average week you lose an hour of work time because your host is down. For example, your uploading some files and all of a sudden your site goes down for 5-10 minutes and this happens quite often during the week or maybe it happens a lot one month but not the next.

Anyway, with your cheap $10/month hosting you are losing about 4 hours of worktime a month. Four hours a month for a year is 48 hours a year of lost work time.

48 hours x $6/hour = $288

$288 plus the $120 for the year of cheap hosting = $408/year

$408/year doesn't sound like cheap hosting to me.

My suggestion, pay a little more upfront for better hosting. I pay about $30/month for a similiar package that other hosts are offering for $7/month.

[Wing Chun]

Originally Posted by twist

The best reason I have found to pay more to get good hosting is this,

Whats an hour of your time worth? Lets lowball it and say $6 (about 3 pounds)

So your time is worth $6/hour.

You find a host for $10/month or $120/year.

Lets say during an average week you lose an hour of work time because your host is down. For example, your uploading some files and all of a sudden your site goes down for 5-10 minutes and this happens quite often during the week or maybe it happens a lot one month but not the next.

Anyway, with your cheap $10/month hosting you are losing about 4 hours of worktime a month. Four hours a month for a year is 48 hours a year of lost work time.

48 hours x $6/hour = $288

$288 plus the $120 for the year of cheap hosting = $408/year

$408/year doesn't sound like cheap hosting to me.

My suggestion, pay a little more upfront for better hosting. I pay about $30/month for a similiar package that other hosts are offering for $7/month.

Very very smart. Now can i get a hosting recommendation from you, twist? In public or PM would be great

[Ryan]

All the comments here are very helpful to answer the topic starter's question of "How can I get a good web hosting ?"

I have been buying hosting for quite some time...and after doing research on over 60 hosting companies & over a few months... I have used the elimination method to eliminate those which do not meet basic criteria such as no 99.9% uptime guarantee agreement & not actual hosting companies but resellers etc etc.

In the end, I have chosen 2 which I am happy and satisfied with. Affiliate link spam removed - just a simple page where I refer those who ask me "which host is good". It is a personal recommendation.

Take care.