>Hi Kurt,
>>
>>For hosting, once your network is generating a little
>>income, I'd get an account at Servint.com . It's a virtual
>>server for about $50 a month, and is managed. This will give
>>you the power you need. Hostgator is OK, until you actually
>>start getting decent traffic, then they'll start shutting
>>down your scripts.
>
>I've been looking into hosting options, namely servint you
>mentioned, gotwebhost and webhostforseo.
>
>My first reaction is that servint looks more powerful,
>although a learning curve to set up with option for
>reseller. However only 2 different class c IP addresses.
>
>The other two look less powerful but more options, eg 10
>class c IP's.
>
>At this moment I am unsure on what would serve me better,
>more IP's or more bandwidth etc.
>
>Thoughts most welcome.

HI Jason,

I'm not a fan of simply having different class C IPs, that still use the same name servers, server, hosting company, etc. Google can easily tell they are on the same server.

The reason for Servint is that it is "managed" and they'll take care of the basic secirity issues and updates. Not sure about the others.

Once you have a really solid main host, you can increase your IPs using all the 3rd party options, as well as a cheap hosting account here and another there.

You can even trade a little hosting at the various forums. Trade a simple 5 meg site hosted on your server for a similar set up on another machine (with no email, etc).

The main purpose of this host is to be able to handle some decent server activity, such as feeding all your sites a blackhole RSS pheed, etc. We can diversify IPs later, using other methods, and 10 IPs isn't all that many.

But in the end, it's up to you.