Selecting a Web Host

There is nothing easy about selecting a web hosting service.  Many of us who have had personal or commercial websites of our own for a long time have had multiple hosts--and the reason we keep changing is because we become dissatisfied without the service we're receiving.

I recently had such bad hosting service that my site was inaccessible.  Although I had paid for a few more months on that hosting service (avoid FeaturePrice), I started looking for a new hosting service.

In a Nutshell

Use TotalChoice Web Hosting.  Okay, that's pretty brief.  At some point, I'll come back and fill in the details of why I recommend them.  For now, here's a few key points:

• Great technical support
• Multiple methods of contacting tech support
  • Email
  • Help tickets
  • Discussion forum
  • On-line chat with Yahoo!, AOL IM, and web-based chat
• On-line discussion forum providing help and advice in a family-like community
• Terrific prices (I pay $4/month for my package)
• Current versions of the software they're running on
• Extensive list of supported features
  • Unlimited email addresses
  • Unlimited mailing lists
  • Unlimited MySQL databases
  • Unlimited subdomains
  • Unlimited forwarding
  • Unlimited autoresponders

Page last updated: 05/25/2005