Back in 1994 I designed my first website using the free web hosting at GeoCities.com (pre-Yahoo days). In those days I used the Adobe Golive program, a WYSIWYG editor and then copy/pasted the code into the GeoCities crude site-builder. It was free and not a bad way to get started.

When I received my first paid client in 1995, Spajzazzy.com (current design not mine), it was time to setup an account with my first real web hosting company. Since then I have worked many different web hosting companies and have had some good experiences and some very bad ones, as well. Clearly not all web hosting companies perform the same and in this article, I will share with you what I have learned about what is important when choosing a web host.