Not running this site on a freebie hosting place is good because it gives me control. However, it also comes with its headaches- like dealing with web hosting companies. It never fails that picking a web hosting company is like a guaranteed losing bet. I recently changed web hosts as I was tired of dealing with frequent downtime. Now with my new web host I still have intermittent downtime only they lie about it when you contact them. And that is beyond frustrating. So, I am thinking that for the next web hosting company that I decide to go with that I will use a site like Web Hosting Geeks that offers up ratings and reviews on web hosting companies. That way I might actually end up with a decent web host company. They even have this nifty little thing called the web hosting awards where they rank the best web hosting company in a variety of categories. You can see things like the best budget web hosting company and the best web hosting company for blogs and the best web hosting company that offers shared hosting. There is a whole page of these little “best of” web hosting companies. Check it out for yourself.