If folks are looking for a hosting company for a website, the first place to look should be the Netcraft site. There you can learn a great deal of important information about selected hosting companies; the technologies they use, their uptime, their performance, failures, etc. One page you'll want to visit is their Hosting Providers table that compares the top performing hosting companies. This table may be sorted on different columns by clicking on the column heading. One important sort you'll want to see is the listing by operating system. This will help you avoid hosting companies using Microsoft products. I'm not angry at Microsoft, it's just that their OS products are down a lot more often and have many widely-exploited security flaws.

Once you've visited a few hosting sites, compare features like storage size, data volumes, tools and facilities to help with your final choice.

      - Mark