started out hosting the site myself on a cable modem from home. What a joke. always losing connection. after a few months we decided to get serious. We rented an office and paid to have a T1 line run to it. Again nothing but problems. We ended up changing T1 providers and still had issues. Turns out there was a problem with the HUB connecting to our office. And despite the steep price ($500/month) the T1 line didn't have the bandwidth we needed. When it seemed like it was becoming more trouble then it's worth a friend recommended ServerBeach. Been using ServerBeach for close to 2 years now and never been offline more than a couple minutes.