I am building a simple web host backed by Dropbox for file sync. I'd love to hear your ideas on what you guys look for in a web host. Really appreciate your feedback.<p>What are the things you specifically look for in a web host?<p><pre><code> 1. Price
2. Ease of use
3. Performance
4. Reliability
5. Something else.</code></pre>
Name-recognition: I'm sure there are a bunch of quality web-hosts, but if I've never heard of you, or you're new, I'm not going to use you. Hosting companies, especially small ones, routinely go out of business.<p>For hosting reliability and availability are the main requirements. If you're a company I've heard of I'll have an idea of how good you are. Most of the time people focus on price, via sites like "low-end-box" and the companies listed there are often just circling the drain before they go out of business.<p>In short: be sustainable, and demonstrate availability & reliability.<p>After all your competitors are things like Amazon's S3 (cheap, reliable), GitHub pages (free), and similar.