I used several hosts, mostly found on Ebay, very cheap promised the world, loads of bandwidth and webspace, but were never online. I would email them and either get told I was talking rubbish, or my emails would be ignored. I used about 4 of them before finaly getting the message that they are not worth the bother and spent alot more money on hosting with 1&1. it is well worth paying the extra. in 6 months with them, I have had 1 downtime, in which I got a email saying they knew of the problem and were working on it. the other hosts I used would say they never have a problem, and not do anything to fix the problems