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Do a WHOIS on their domain name. Then look for the creation date of the domain name. If the domain name was created less then a year ago it's more of a risk to join that hosting company. They may be a great host, but considering more then 95% of new hosts go out of business within a year that really isn't something you should be taking a chance on. It's too easy to become a hosting company.

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Clicking start then select run type in the run box command then press enter. Now type ping hostdomainname.com wait for it to finish and look for the average ping time. The lower the number the better, and chances are the faster your site will load if you host with them. Any number around an 70-80 average would be good, obviously, less would even be better. Anything over 100 is very bad (unless you're living in another country from where the host is based).

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