When it comes to hosting you have to know who your hosting with and what their backround is in the business, we opened our own hosting company when we couldnt get the level of service we needed for our mainstream and adult clients, since i had 6 years of experience working for IBM's high end hosting and have worked in all these datacenters we figured we could do a better job. A must if your doing a decent level of traffic is a host that owns his own ip space, has his own asn numbers for bgp, who hosts in a tier 1 datacenter has a good compitent staff and has direct contracts with the bandwith providers (we have all of them). If your host doesnt have these you should be asking why. Dont always look for best price, you get what you pay for. And every minute your down is more than you saved on the cheap hosting. just my
