What should I expect from my host?

[T Pat]

Originally Posted by Chop Smith

IMO, a one on one relationship with your host is valuable.

Well Said Chop that's one of the reasons Sparky has my business till the day one of us dies.
I get a couple emails a week from mainstream webmasters with hosting problems and look at all the threads on GreenGuy and Jim about hosting problems.
I'm a cheap bastard but I know better than to be cheap when it comes to Hosting. The money you think your going to save is going to cost you in the long run, I think Sparky's cheapesr package is $8 a month and your not packed in with so many sites on the same server that every one is slowed to a crawl like most packages in that price range.
The one and only time I've ever been listed on the Hun I got shut down for going over my bandwidth had to waite hours for the guy I was buying hosting from to get back home from fishing to get my account upgraded and then I got shut down again His wife tells me he's in the shower I'll have him give you a call when he get's out. a half hour latter my site goes back up an hour latter I get a call from my hosting provider and the guy tries to give me shit because I caused him to go over on bandwidth and his provider shut him down which shut everybody he was selling hosting to down, I started looking for real hosting the next day, fucking moron couldn't do simple addition and had me buffaloed into thinking he was a hosting company