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Once in a while my anecdotes about doing business on the internet are worth sharing, especially when you need guidance on picking a company to provide you with a mission critical business service. I had a baaad experience with a web hosting company. I signed up with a web host for a Virtual Private Server (VPS) account to support one of my high traffic websites. It is a Google Page Rank (PR) 5 web site with over 150,000 visitors a month and does some intensive database operations. For this I need a high end hosting account and preferably with industrial strength servers. About one week into my subscription my site was knocked off the web with no advance warning by the web hosting company! When I pressed they said that the behavior of site was taking down other sites on the dedicated server, in fact it was slowing them all down. Never mind that VPS accounts are supposed to be isolated from other accounts. In fact they refused to take on my site even on their dedicated server packages. Shoot! This was profoundly upsetting and my site was off the web for days until it was up and running again. Needless to say this is not a company that will win my business again for my web hosting needs. I will not release their name because I would prefer to let this memory die out and see no reason to stain their name.

With these thoughts in mind and the dangers of a low quality web host, I thought I would introduce a company with a reputation for reliability and stellar customer service. IM Hosted is well known for their first rate support and hosting solutions. When you compare them head to head versus other hosting providers, I found them to be very competitive and in reviewing their pricing plans conclude that they offer affordable web host pricing. They guarantee that the customers site will be carried off their servers in 80ms or less over any 5 minute period day or night. In addition, they offer a 30 day money back guarantee for customers that try them out. That’s impressive, confidence like that in the product is rare in this industry! Who offers that anymore?
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