The most important things you should check before buying are the company’s reputation and their services.
By services I mean, do they provide email, multiple domains, security, and SSL? Some hosting providers will separate these services from their hosting packages and charge extra for them. The better hosting companies will include most or even all of these things as standard.
Customer support is also a deal-breaker. The bigger a company, the worse their support tends to be. It’s hard to find companies with genuinely great support, but they’re out there.
Do they advertise ‘Unlimited’ bandwidth, domains, and disk space? If so, that is pure marketing bait - there are always limitations. It wont matter whether you’re allowed to have 50 domains or infinite if you’ve only got a miniscule amount of disk space to work with.
Companies should be more transparent about what they offer. ‘Unlimited Bandwidth’ most often means ‘only several thousand visitors per month’ before you’re cut off.
Checking the reputation of your company is vital - search for customer reviews as these will give you more honest insights into the practicalities and day-to-day issues with a hosting company.
Search for independent reviews too, avoid reviewers who do not go into detail and provide plenty of links and coupons for a hosting provider - they are just affiliates hoping to make a sale!
If I had to recommend someone, it would be WPX Hosting as they are reliable and tick the boxes mentioned above. Customer reviews will tell you so much though - that is the best advice I can offer you. Beware of the bottom-dollar companies too of course, as they’ll get your money some other way.
Hope that was helpful! Good luck
