[thebookish]

What is most important feature that you focus on when buying a hosting space plan? More Disk space, more bandwidth, latest CPanel, a lot of emails, subdomains, What?

The most important one for me is the bandwidth, I go for the plan that had the most bandwidth, It make me able to get as far visitors as I can.

[3cellhosting]

The most important element of a plan for me is the reliability and is it guaranteed with a money back offer! Along with effective tech support.

Second is cPanel and access to software.

Third is bandwidth.

The rest is icing on the cake

Cheers

[raghav]

For me bandwidth is the most important factor... if i don;t have enought band width how would i really expand myself with all those emails and stuff.. and seceond should be the technical staff.. they must be the best available..

[mozza]

when i chose my host, first thing that i look for is the reputation. do a search of the webhost on WHT and read about them. second is the support response time. it's important to know that support is just a phonecall away if anything happens at anytime of the day

[Naox]

Ordered by importance in this order (1 being most important)

1. Uptime
2. Support/Reliability (Testimonials help!)
3. Web space/bandwidth
4. Price

A lot of the web hosts out there sell massive amounts of resources, thinking that their users will never use 90% of what they have allocated to them. This can make them a lot of money with users signing up thinking they have all these available resources. I have seen businesses do this, and they end folding rather quickly because their servers can't handle the stress/load which they allocate to users. Overselling is not a good thing! HostGator (Link: HOSTGATOR WEB HOSTING - cPanel, Reseller, and Dedicated Website Hosting) is known for not overselling their resources, and now they have become of the best known web hosts in the world (gained over 34,000 clients in 1 year!). Make sure you take a look at their support/uptime rather than how much resources you can get.

[modric]

For me:
1. Prize.
2. Good feeling on the start
3. Reliability - support
4. Fantastico, few mySQLs, PHP, mail, domain parking, upload files, WYSIWYG editor besides HTML one.

[kconnections]

There is not just one thing that is most important to me. Since my web hosting is for my business website I need a host that is very reliable with an excellent uptime history. Of course, I need enough bandwidth and diskspace and at an affordable price. If I do have a problem I want to be able to reach my host quickly and easily and have the problem solved as quickly as possible.

[ScottHughes]

Uptime is the most important for me. Unfortunately, you can't take the host's word for it that they will provide the guaranteed uptime. So, many hosts promise but never provide that 99.99% uptime.

I don't even want just 99% uptime. That's not enough. With 99% uptime, that means one in every hundred visitors gets an error. Imagine what a waste your promotion efforts are then.

[Ajay]

Had shared hosting for a short period and now moved in for a VPS.

My criteria:
1. Uptime
2. Price
3. Support
4. Space/Bandwidth
5. Control panel and features

[Ajay]

Originally Posted by Naox

HostGator is known for not overselling their resources

Are you sure about this? Looking at their shared hosting plans it would be rather difficult to give 3.5Gb accounts to too many users for that price. It wouldn't be viable.