i am having constant problems with my host. i own a directory where it pulls about 3k uniques per month. at present i feel shared hosting should work. which host is best? where do directory owners host their sites? what do you recommend. please help.
You should not be having any problems on shared hosting with 3k per month. I had some problems with hostgator when I was running rss feeds, but that is probably a different story.
Well doesn't seem like you should be having performance trouble with such traffic but if you think about changing hosting you might want to try those virtual servers that are so popular recently. They give you quite some freedom for a low price (10$ a month for 10GB space and 400GB traffic) and I don't have problem with the performace at all with 1k uniques per day and I won't have even with 10 times that many. Might work better for you since you can install extra stuff and just do whatever you like
All of my directories are being hosted on Hostgator.com ..I'd recommend this one.Daivd told me that site5.com is a good choice as well.Though I've not used theirs yet.
Regarding location of hosting it is advisable to use USA hosting in many instances as usually the support services are excellent Other countries of course offer great services but you need to be more selective in my experience