do you want purchasing web hosting?

These should be looked for when purchasing a web hosting account:

1. Price
2. Uptime
3. Customer Service Quality and 24/7 Support
4. Bandwidth & Storage
5. Control Panel
6. Features (Domains, Sub Domains, MySQL DB, IP Addresses etc.)
7. Money Back Guarantee
8. Data Protection Features
8.A. RAID 10 (hardware redundancy)
8.B. Daily off-site backups
8.C. Data Center w/Fire Protection, Power Backup, etc.

First you have to know that your project will work in this environment. After that has been determined, just find one that has the capabilities that you will need to run your project - at the lowest possible price - Then buy two (1ea from two different vendors) they are cheap. Build your site on one and then copy it to the other, continually back up the first to the second so they are closely synced. Then finally have a fail over policy in place.

Up time history is really not important, this type of product is going to be down from time to time. Be sure your policies (not the vendor) take this into account and mitigate your exposure.

Customer service and support are truly useless in this arena, purchase the service and use it. Why pay to be able to call some one who will only say "Yep, it is down". The hardware providers of the service will be looking after their hardware, they don't need you to call and say they are down. If you need help building your project, look elsewhere.

Bandwidth and storage are of minor importance but if your site is going to take gigabytes of space you are probably barking up the wrong tree anyway (even a 3GB WordPress Blog is a nightmare to keep backed up). CPU, memory and other resources will be so limited that reaching even the lowest advertised bandwidth limits will be nearly impossible.

Control panels can be fun but are tremendously resource intensive, using cpanel to back up your multi-gigabyte site (10GB limit) every night will not only take you inordinate amounts of time, it will violate most TOS's. Just find one you like if you must.

Domains purchased through a hosting vendor (even if they are free upfront) become a pain in the posterior when you want to move your project, and you will.

Sub domains are really a DNS issue, using the DNS servers on a shared host is not a good idea anyway.

Databases, Dedicated IP availability, etc... are a part of even the cheapest providers offerings... Watch your project, don't bet the bank on this product.

You are going to pay for any money back offer, whether you use it or not. This is certainly not important, this is cheap hosting.

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