buckmcgoo,
just to touch on your post here. you are correct, about hosting with a "fly by night", you could certainly end up in trouble. if you choose a hosting provider who is offering $1.99 hosting accounts, or who is offering you "UNLIMITED Bandwidth" or "UNLIMITED Space", then you should consider this persons background. there are multiple ways of doing that on the vast internet, I personally check a lot of domains for age, this tells me a ton about the domain environment, see more not necessarily about the person, but the domain environment. Secondly in regards to looking at the age of the domain, i look at the expiration date of the domain. Typically if you purchase a domain name for 1 year, (minimum set by ICANN), then you are not serious about your web presence.

Just these few steps can show you some good information regarding a persons existence on the internet.

Renting a dedicated server, well that could be something that is true in your previous history, but personally i have been leasing servers since 2000, i choose to lease rather than purchase, since technology changes daily, and its more cost effective for smaller companies to lease equipment, than it is to colo equipment. I suppose you have never tried to dump 20 2 year old server(s), time consuming in itself, plus you certainly dont benefit from the headache. So renting as you say, is termed leasing.

I find your post appalling in its presentation, as if you read the post from boonex you would understand why there are those of us who are serious and then there are those of us who just wish to post a link to their services that they provide:

To hosting companies, web masters, BoonEx community members, and all interested parties!

now this does not say to all who own a data center, or all who own hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment, last two words say "interested parties", now why would you be on the defensive about what is going on on this post, if this is a directive from boonex. you will notice that those of us who are actually involved in the hosting, where we may have posted a thank you, or posted something related to hosting, we have not posted our url on here as part of the post to the blog. those of us who are serious about this have followed through with what boonex requires, affiliate program, testing their auto-installer, among other tasks require from boonex. so you are wrong in your thought here, and maybe you can reread what boonex is asking for. if you choose not to use any of the hosts that are listed on the hosting page, that is, by all means, your perogative. but to come in here and post what is solely your opinion regarding something you know nothing at all about, and clearly havent taken the time to read what the blog was created for, you are wrong.

however, where all input is more than welcome, we do appreciate your post just the same as those that are positive.

look forward to the day that you are knocking out the door of our servers asking to come in.

Regards
DosDawg