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The site design looks too plain, I would ad background colors for your BG, content area BC and the menu bars.
I agree, the design looks too plain and choice of colors is not the best for a web hosting related site. Also, the content organization is not the best. Finally, in Firefox, there is a problem with some menu items as they are too long and broken into two lines - the text does not fit inside the borders. The good news is that it would not probably take too long to fix these problems.
I agree#2, there are no borders/background colors/horizontal lines... to give the page a defined structure
I immediately turned off by the pastel purple 'thing' - it looks like it should be a dating site. Also, you need to integrate your adsense into your text and remove the colored borders. Make the links the 'standard' blue, because that's what people are used to clicking on. For SEO purposes, throw in a <H1> tag with a keyword - this is mostly for MSN's benefit.