I’m often called upon by clients to recommend to them a good company to use as the host for the applications and websites that we build. We do offer the service ourselves, but sometimes clients like to split up their services between vendors. I suppose it makes them feel like they have a bit more control this way. So, over time we’ve worked with various other company from small time hosting companies, to big ones like Godaddy, then to specialty dedicated server companies like RackSpace. I hear lots of reviews on hosting companies from our clients, and keep a general idea of why they were chosen and how it works out. So, I’m going to share with you a few ways to NOT choose a hosting provider.
