Here’s A Hosting Provider You’ll Probably Want To Avoid

If its RedBus, part of TelecityGroup ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TelecityGroup ) in London Docklands then I already had them flagged as a provider to avoid.

An ex-colleague quit without notice and another ex-colleague and I had to recover the root passwords from servers at RedBus. The security staff had no record of us and, without confirmation from our boss, issued me with a security pass and allowed me to vouch for my ex-colleague. If we weren't genuine, we could have picked any of the weak locks on the third floor and taken any equipment without question.

speaking of hosting services to avoid. Techcrunch's host (or former - not sure), MediaTemple, had a really overhyped service. Stay away from their Grid-Service plan. It's slow and it's down every other week.

Now that's the kind of hardware problem you don't hear about every day. Yikes.

Just the thought of that happening makes me want to use cloud computing for everything..

tc;dr