4.The support provided both online and offline to ensure you can sleep soundly at night. This is area that is overlooked most often whenever novice webmaster signs up for a webhosting contract. It is absolutely important ( burn this into your head) I repeat absolutely important to ensure that you get a web hosting company that will answer your calls and ensure your website stays up and running even if you call them at 2 am in morning to request for help. I am talking about 24 hours support everyday of week and also relevant safety measures implemented in data center at which your server resides. I highly recommend you find out more about location of data center about power supply facilities, where it is situated and also safety measures that have been put in place such as fire protection and relevant data backup facilities to a remote location as a safety should a physical destruction occur that literally wipes out whole data center ( although I think this is highly unlikely unless George Lucas must have been tingling with wrong button at his huge animation studios and manage to bring Darth Vader back to life).

Lunarpages (lunarpages.com) hosts on Unix servers and is very reliable. You get 3000 megabytes of space and 40 gigabytes of traffic for $7.95 a month. If you want ASP support, it'll be an extra $1 per month. Lunarpages is vaunted for reliablity and prompt technical support.

Thinkhost is better suited for webmasters looking for web hosting bargains, while Infinology is better suited for webmasters with high traffic or commercial websites. Webmasters with little experience who need constant support should check out Lunarpages for their web hosting needs.