Back in 1994 I designed my first website using the free web hosting at GeoCities.com (pre-Yahoo days). In those days I used the Adobe Golive program, a WYSIWYG editor and then copy/pasted the code into the GeoCities crude site-builder. It was free and not a bad way to get started.

When I received my first paid client in 1995, Spajzazzy.com (current design not mine), it was time to setup an account with my first real web hosting company. Since then I have worked with over ten web hosting companies and have had some good experiences and some very bad ones, too. Clearly not all web hosting companies perform the same and I will share with you what I have learned about what is important when choosing a web host.