What you should take into account when chosing a host for a social bookmarking websites is quite different than what you need for other kind of websites. Even the least popular bookmarking websites tend to have large amount of traffic, but they only require a very small amount of server resources. So what you should take into account is not the storage space, nor the monthly bandwidth, but the uptime and the reliability.

Unfortunately, all the hosting providers claim to offer "99.9% Uptime Guarantee", but they don't really offer this. According to the terms of service, you can't hold them liable for any server outage and all you can get in the case of big and/or often outages is a small discount on the hosting price that usually doesn't cover more than 1%~5% of your lose (eg: you get free hosting for a few weeks, worth about $2~$3).

So what you can do?

#1) Choose a host with a good reputation. It must be a very popular host, but also having great ratings from the customers. When you find a web hosting reviews website, please check if it has an option for users to post reviews. If it doesn't have such an option, then it is most likely to contain fake reviews posted by the webmaster under different names, so you should leave it and find another one.

A trustful web hosting reviews site with 100% user posted content is HostRisk.com. Drop an eye on it before making a decision.

#2) Make sure that they offer money-back gurantee for at least 30 days.

#3) Avoid using the hosting service of companies that are mainly doing domain registration. (Also, avoid using the domain registration service of companies that are mainly doing web hosting). In this way, you can easily cancel your hosting account (especially during the money-back guarantee period) and switch to another host without having to transfer the domain name to another registrar.

#4) Stay away of the free hosts. The social bookmarking websites are runnng on very complex scripts and the free hosts are missing many basic features you may need. The most of them even don't have SMTP support so you can send emails from your own email address (eg: contact@yourdomain.com).

#5) Don't forget to be of help for others by posting your own reviews about your current and past experience with different web hosts on some web hosting reviews websites.

Now to make it easier for you to find a suitable host for your social bookmarking website, here are a few nominations:

No I) HostGator is one of the most popular hosting companies on the web with the highest customer satisfaction rating and it's one of the very few green-powered hosts. Click here to GET 20% OFF on your first order with coupon code GREEN.

No II) BlueHost is our second best recommendation. They offer UNLIMITED hosting at $6.95/mo!

No III) JustHost is another full-featured reliable host at the best price for the value. GET 50% OFF With Coupon Code 50OFF.

Special Mention for WebHostingPad that is the cheapest host with great customers satisfaction rating. This is the best low-budget option at only $1.99/month