Originally Posted by Spudstr

i'm not the biggest host by no means but the level of service you get is on a personal level and not just in the mix, not alot of customers but my customers are usally 50+mbps each. I do host smaller servers, I host one of chios servers and thats a 10mbps deal. For him being a unmannaged customer he actully gets managed service.

As far as rating hosting companies there are a million review sites out there and believe it or not the more you pay to advertise on them the better your review is.. amazing .. i've been in hosting for 6 years now and all the marketing sites are the same.

in the short you really can't go wrong with an ISP that has two or more diverse paths. Example. I have a dedicated Gige with BTN, yet I also have a mixed blend gige with Pull The Plug networks each network is on different hardware and i havn't mixed the two yet waiting for my AS number to start doing BGP.

most decent providers these days (if using cisco) have redundent sup cards and power supplies so really if one system does fail it doesn't go down, so with the playing field even in this aspect go with the host that you like and get that warm fuzzy feeling with.