I’m doing a bit of market research, I recently purchased Hostgasm.com and I plan on offering hosting in the future. But first, I would like to know more about your current host, why you chose them, and how its going for you. This is all so I can be a host that is catered to the needs of individuals and with the features they seek in a host.

So, to begin:

Who are your currently hosted with, and what made you choose that host?
Word of mouth, you saw an ad, you chose the cheapest host, you had a specific need that particular host catered to that another didn’t?

What is good, and what is bad about your current host?
Are you happy with your current host? How is their customer service? Do your sites ever experience downtime? Customers or visitors ever say your site is too slow?

What do you seek in a webhost?
Scripting support, speed, lots of space and lots of bandwidth, green hosting?

What is the most important factor to you when choosing a webhost?
Cost, friendly/helpful service, webmaster tools like Fantastico for script installation, reliability, uptime?

Do you have any specific needs, that your current host doesn’t support?
Like FFmpeg support, specific scripting support, SSL, multiple domain hosting on a single account, etc

What type of website(s) do you have?
Small/personal sites or blogs. Large community sites with many users, commercial/business websites? Resource hungry media websites?

Any other information would be great. I want to hear from real people what they need and what they like, and what they don’t like.

Lets get talking.