Study Ending with Round 2 (except an encore).
I got a chance to update my page, and a few events have happened in a short flurry, so I'll call this the end of a shorter Round 2.
http://taophoenix.paradoxservers.net/ReVision.html
Congrats to Paradox, CWahi, and IsMyWebsite. In that order but now really close together, they are my current recommendations for hosting. Darksoul is the fastest on support, CWahi apparently has the strongest back end bandwidth, and until I dig up a specialty feature, IsMyWebsite seems to be a solid midline round-out option.
Some other things that have come up:
Host Offerings.
To qualify, hosts need to actively be offering hosting. I may have a couple of coupons on exact terms, but the hosts themselves are open for sales. I retired the category where my one little site would lurk effectively as "1% advertising" grafted onto a venture that morphed out of hosting into other random things. Same situation goes with "I offer 1 at a time hosting"... there are scores of talented folks here, who can hook a computer to the net and call it a host, but I also retired "Invitation Only". That makes more sense between a client with a tough hosting need and a 1-1 provider who takes it on. It's a bit different from my study.
To qualify, the host has to stay intact. Temporary emergency solutions get kudos from me as data protection quality, but the host can't qualify for a sort of "Host Star-Search". However, owners here have often had a test venture to learn on, then nailed down the formula for the second swing at the market and gone on to fine things.
This study might be close to winding down for the goals it was designed for. Sure, elsewhere on FWS we saw some long running hosts finally collapse into the mists of time, but I trust these hosts will still be around past next Christmas. Stats wise, it's one newcomer against two much older hosts. Great stuff. But all but perhaps one of the other entrants were ALL new hosts, which quietly also indicated the purpose of my little project - to weed out the new sales hype into who solidifies for the long run.
If I do a round 3, I would now be much fiercer with the entrance requirements, but then it's more of a split of studies. Calling this some kind of minor durability certification, the proper way to do things would be to have a feeder study with newcomer applicants. However I wouldn't try to load my whole site structure onto the new entrants, and that in turn would play havoc with whether I "deserve" to lock up a whole account space. All I do know is I am out of energy for a while to fully load up a host only to have it turn into a "Flip Operation" that deliberately intends to sell out in some 7 months with "more market value because of the 100 existing clients".