Commercial website hosting- recommendations needed

[pugwash4x4]

(posted in here to get more feedback)

i have a website for my business which i need hosting- it'll be the first website i have ever had hosted and i need smoe help.

does anyone know of a company which is reliable, secure and professional (whilst not being too expensive) but will also help make sure my website is found if someone goes looking for it?

[pugwash4x4]

miniman said:

Hosting is different from making your website appear in search engines.

Hosting - www.register1.net - run by a PH'er and bloody excellent.

Search engines - don't be fooled by the "we guarantee you results" brigade, they are talking boocks. Good quality, semantically correct code, sensible title tags, image alt tags, inbound and outbound links etc. is what it's all about.

great feedback- i guess what i should have said is that i don't just want a hosting company but i want a web architect and hosting Co who can provide the above- i have a web designer who has deisgned the layout and function of the website- now i need a company to make it all work properly.

[pugwash4x4]

thanks guys- i think .

I don't have the resources for an in-house developer- i have a designer and publisher who does all of my branding (from logos to avn designs) and web designing however he is by now means a web optimiser.

What i want initially is just to get the website up and running (without spending a huge amount of money) so that customers can find it easily. I will contact you off site about this James (i've come across your site before oddly enough) to try and get through some jargon so i can get the right thing! I can't say i really understand how web optimisation works and the implications of it- but my first need is jsut to get the site up and running.

Thanks for all your replies guys, if anybody has any more thoughts then i would be glad to hear them.