Choosing hosting provider

Which hosting do you use? What is most important for you about hosting?
In your eyes, is it a serious advantage for an affiliate program, if it offers free hosting to all of the partners?
Please, advise.
Best regards, Seopharmacy

I use 1&1, but they have limmits on there databases (like all hosts), and with me running my sites with alot of conections to the database this can make problems for me, so i have to work on things and tweek them so that my users and members dont get errors ie. "to many conactions to database"

This is just a thought you might have to think of, as for the affiliate program not realy up on that my self sorry. But for the hosting you should think on what you are going to be using it for, and conact the hosts to ask some questions as they dont show you all the things you need to know in there hosting packages :)

Bah, don't even get me started on shared hosts. Since I moved to VPS I couldn't be happier.

What means the most to me is: Uptime, Bandwidth, & Upgrade ability.

Madkad - I bet if you changed hosts, you would be much happier. 1&1 doesnt have a good reputation - and reading your post makes me believe your working too hard on your hosting.

I use 1&1, but they have limmits on there databases (like all hosts), and with me running my sites with alot of conections to the database this can make problems for me, so i have to work on things and tweek them so that my users and members dont get errors ie. "to many conactions to database"

This is just a thought you might have to think of, as for the affiliate program not realy up on that my self sorry. But for the hosting you should think on what you are going to be using it for, and conact the hosts to ask some questions as they dont show you all the things you need to know in there hosting packages :)
Not true to be honest. OneandOne place a totally unreasonable max size of 100K on MySQL databases - which is really, quite simply a disgrace. Any successful forum will very soon have a database in excess of that size.

I'd look around if I were you. I was with oneaneone for a year or so before I realised how they are in it only for the money.

Madkad - I bet if you changed hosts, you would be much happier. 1&1 doesnt have a good reputation - and reading your post makes me believe your working too hard on your hosting.

I'll second moving away from 1&1, I was with them for a while they're great for just running a wordpress install or static pages but once you start needing some weight (server resources) they suck.

Besides that, I've never gotten a response from support in less than 3 days and never had an issue fixed in less than 2 emails.

They're great for domain registration though. $5.99 a pop and free whois privacy service cannot be beat.

Not true to be honest. OneandOne place a totally unreasonable max size of 100K on MySQL databases - which is really, quite simply a disgrace. Any successful forum will very soon have a database in excess of that size.

You ment 100MB right? ;)

Oops... hehehe... just testing you Danny :)

Yes I am moving in time, I am looking for a good server for my self, I been with 1&1 well over a year and there answer to any problem is upgrade and I tell them they know this will not help.

I am looking into hosting for people my self and with all the problems i have been through I think I should be able to previde a good hosting service ofr others.

Thanks for all your thoughts :)