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This depends on your reasons for choosing a hosting provider, is it that you are changing from one to another and if so why? For instance you may want to look for another provider because your websites are constantly down and you are sick and tired of having to chase up support everythme. You loose money and time. In this case your first question when choosing a host would be how stable the server is.
Another reason you may want to switch is because the webhosting company are not responding to your emails so you need to find out how good the support is if any and how contact is made with them. Your best option would be to look for a company that provides 24hr live chat service. You never know when you might need it. Some may only offer email support and you might not be happy about having to wait for an email to arrive when you have an urgent problem. Also making phone calls which can even be outside your country can be expensive. So you want to have support on hand 24/7. You may also want to add to that question how good the quality of that support is. It can be the most annoying thing to get a response from a hosting company, with high expectations that the response is going to be good, only to find out that its inaccurate and poor. In saying this you cant always trust what one person tells you or what you read about on their website, afterall they are not going to tell you something you dont want to hear. The best thing you can do is go to a host review website like this one and see how other people have rated that host company amd what they have to say.
Also ask the question regarding backups and restores, how you go about moving databases when switching to a new server. Most companies do this for you which is what you want unless you know what your doing of course.
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