Do you remember the time I was searching for web hosting, when the site became much bigger and I couldn’t afford paying less money, because the service sucked? Searching for a hosting company is not easy thing when you need the best service in the world money can buy. But now that I mentioned money, yes, it should also be affordable web hosting, otherwise you may not get the profits expected.

But enough with all the babbling and whining about how much I spent to find the best hosting company and how much time it took me. These days we have the I’m Hosted guys, an extremely reliable company (that’s what we need in the end, right?) that offers high quality hosting solutions to customers all over the world.

Over the last few months they rapidly grew into one of the best on the market, but mainly because of their top notch services that include:

• the company’s reputation for reliability and stellar customer service - No matter what you’re contacting them for, they will take your problem and solve it. For their customers imhosted.com will transfer your domain to their hosting platform, will get you started with your new domain and so on.Talking about reliability the company has a 99.998% uptime policy which to be honest is not everywhere on the streets.
• the company’s competitive affordable web host pricing - Take their webhosting deal for example. For only $6,95 you’ll get 2,500GB of space (yes 2500, you’re correct, and yes GB, you’re correct again), 20,000 GB of bandwidth and you can host unlimited domains with it. How’s that for a deal? Do I hear, a great?
• the company’s first rate support and hosting solutions - I tried them and indeed these guys are fast and have the proper solutions for whatever the problems is. They really have the skills, the experience and expertise to be able to provide the best for their clients.

I’m not sure if you will follow with imhosted or not, but I just thought that it’s my duty to let you know that a new kid, a new hosting kid, is in town and that they are planning on taking over at least a big portion of the market simply because they can. Oh, and they will.

If any of you guys, ever tried them or will try them, please remember to come back and give us a quick review so that others can see if it’s true or not.

Moving hosting, for an established blog is not an easy thing to do mostly because it takes time to investigate and get the best web hosting deals for a fair price and believe me this is a time consuming job. For anyone that would like to choose a new hosting for their sites here are the steps I’ve thought of.

1. Reliable hosting. This was my first concern. If the site ever gets a spike in traffic I don’t want to be called by the hosting company because they’ve shut me down. That’s not the way I like to do business, so I had to seek a reliable company at first.

2. Server Specifications. Though I’m geek, servers and bandwidth are not my best qualities so I had to search for some web hosting articles and see what exactly I need. How much RAM, how much bandwidth and if it’s ok to get a shared server.

3. The price. Spending hundreds of dollars for a dedicated server wasn’t a solution and to be honest not a necessity, but I already knew what I was looking for, so I went on WebHostingGeeks to read their web hosting reviews. Though I wasn’t planning it really paid off spending the time on the site, and I learned a lot. They actually made me understand what I want. You can also try webhostingchoice.com for other reviews and costs.

4. Payment options. I don’t like giving my credit card or Paypal details to every new hosting company that pops out like mushrooms after rain. I want to make sure that those guys are at least trying to protect people’s data.

5. Customer support. Excuse me if I don’t eat PHP or Apache at breakfast, but everyone is good at something else. When it comes to server problems, I want to be sure I can rely on a person (phone, email or support ticket) that will address my problem in a timely manner. For me online chat for support is of great value, so it really counted when I made my choice.

These are the things that influenced my decision to choose a new hosting provider, but yours may be different or you could add to these.