This topic is for all hosting seekers, how to avoid scams ... I own hosting company, but this topic isn't about advertising, I will give you few tips on how to prevent from being scamed: 1: Don't go with company which is selling unlimited bandwidth. There are 213123 providers claim to provide you unlimited disk space and bandwidth, most of them are just "master resellers" for another hosting company, and once they will have too much clients, then their hosting company will suspend their reseller account, this mean your account will go down as well. If they actually own dedicated server, then they will probably fill it with too much accounts, and once you will start using 2much resources they will suspend your account. About year ago I tried 4 hosting company's with unlimited bandwidth they all suspended my account once I used over 100GB of bandwidth. When I asked for reason the answer was "Your websites use too much cpu/ram", anyway all my website are professionally coded ... when I tried to run them on my own dedicated server, cpu usage was below 1% ... 2: Super cheap Alpha or just master reseller providers I see a lot of offers for unlimited master resellers, price for 1 month is ~5$ but for a whole year just $30 ... whoever don't already know this is bullshit is stupid. Do you really think they will allow you to have 50 clients on this account for just $30 / year ? If they don't suspend your account then server will start to have big delays soon. The same story is with all alpha master resellers, you will pay $60 for 1 year and then you will have to share this one server with other 30 alpha master resellers, you know what this mean right ? ( Again server overloads. ) Oh, and who said 30 alpha master resellers is enough ? Let's do a little calculation: 30 accounts * $60 = $1800 ( 1 year profit for your provider ) Now split those $1800 with 12months, result is $150 per month. What does this mean?: - If your provider using quad core server with .. let's say 8gb ram on 100Mbps unmtereted port, then he have to pay at list $300-$400 per month. Our result is that your provider doesn't make any profit, opposite of profit he is going in negative balance. This mean, that he will probably give up after few months and you will lost your website + money 3: Try to avoid hosting providers with free templates. What can free template tell you about hosting company ? They don't have even enough money to get unique design. This is really bad, I wouldn't trust them with my website. 4: Find provider with dedicated server, avoid resellers. My hosting company is selling reseller packages, so I can speak from my personal experience ... 60% of resellers quit after few months, they just disappear and left their clients without website/backup. We try to be nice and provide those desperate clients with at list backup of their own website. -When you see re-seller, selling hosting with unlimited disk space or BW just run away 5: What is too cheap ( Too good to be real. ) Top hosting providers today selling nothing but false promises. Let's take a look at GoDaddy and hostgator, they claim to provide you with: GoDaddy : 1500GB bw for only $5.94 Hostgator : 3000GB bw for $4.95, or unlimited bw for $12.95 I tried hostgator, with very clean scripts using low resources(cpu/ram), and they suspended my website when I reached about 70gb bandwidth. With reason: "We don't allow file storages", I didn't have any type of file storage... only images for my website ( part of design. ) And for the end, a little advice to all resellers( Or hosting providers ): - If you plan to have at list 20 clients then get yourself VPS or even better dedicated server. - Don't sell proxy's on same server as normal hosting packages because proxy's use a lot of CPU and server will be overloaded soon. - If you don't have at list $1000 to start, then try to stay away from this business, better for you and your clients. And for hosting seekers: - Once you find interesting company try to google their name and find reviews about uptime/support/speeds - If you own big website then go for VPS or dedicated server, because most of hosting providers will suspend you when you use too much cpu. - Don't be idiot and pay for 1 year in advance to hosting company you don't know. Sorry for my English, I hope it's readable