Let me first say that I’ve been with BlueHost since I started this blog. While it’s had its ups and downs (and at several points I certainly would say I pretty much hated them as a webhost, due to a bout of downtime around last December), they haven’t really been too bad to me overall.

I say this because there are lots of webhosts out there that are just terrible (I won’t mention any names, but I’ve heard horror stories from more than one person who either lost their site completely or had endless downtime. For this reason, I’ve been trolling sites Web Hosting Rating, checking out which hosts people have had particularly bad experiences with.

While I don’t feel it’s really fair of me to start naming names here, you can take a look for yourself and see which sites have really bad reputations for webhosting.

As for me, I’m mainly looking for cheaper hosting — I don’t really need unlimited traffic or the ability to host unlimited domains or any of the other features that go with my current host. I’d much rather have a reliable host that just offers me the ability to host my few sites with a reasonable amount of traffic and charges me next to nothing.

So if anyone has any experiences with their host (good, bad or completely horrific), I’d love to hear them.