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Here are a couple of sites with host reviews which are trustworthy and contain real reviews. http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/ www.brownbook.net If a host has customer feedback on their own site, people often assume it is made up. However if the feedback includes the clients name/website details, then you can contact them directly and ask for a reference. Contact the hosts tech support and test their knowledge. There are also some important things you need to know if you are using shared hosting that most poeple are not aware of. Imagine the shared hosting server is like a motorway with hundreds of cars, at any time any one of those other cars could serve, break down, break hard or do any number of actions that would cause a crash which would effect everyone else on the motorway and could bring everything to a stand still. You have no idea how bad any of those other drivers are or what condition their car may be in, and there is nothing you can do about it if you want to drive on that road and each time you do so you are taking a gamble. This is quite similar to how shared hosting works, as any other site(s) on the server could do something to cause major problems for other sites, and there is nothing you or anyone else can do about this as you have no idea how other customers will behave and neither do the host, if they are using the server for development or testing, how badly written their code may be etc, so just like driving on the motorway, every day is a gamble. If your site is mission critical or is your companies primary source of income then gambling with shared hosting is not really the best solution. A dedicated solution will avoid the problems associated with shared hosting as you are running your own server on which you are the only customer, so the only site that cause problems is your own. This is rather like having your own private motorway on which you are the only car, and so as a result you are not taking that gamble every time you use it. With the cost of a VPS being so cheap these days, if it really worth gambling your business with shared hosting ? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:341325 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
