Web Hosting

I know some of you do web host reselling and other stuff like that, but when
you look for a web hosting service do you just go for price?  Do you look
for price and services?  Have any of you based you decision on the fact that
the web host site did NOT validate in the W3C html checker?
The reason I ask is I have checked about 8 web hosting sites and none of
them validate.  Is there a particular reason for that?  Or, should a
webmaster not worry about the fact that they bust there butts to validate in
HTML and the WH Service does not?
Should I support any of these companies that don't validate by sending them
a clients business?  In fact, the top five at Top Host
http://www.tophosts.com/pages/webhost/ecomhost.htm

did not validate.  Why is that?  Can anyone explain to me exactly what the
W3C HTML validator checks for?  I mean, I just don't understand why one
should worry about validation when the host site doesn't meet that criteria.
Well............other than the webmasters contract with the client saying
that it will validate.
One more thought and I will stop ranting.
I personally believe if your going to do a job then you should do it right.
I fully intend and expect every site of mine to validate (when I get one out
there) and the comments I have made in this letter are for the sole purpose
of finding out why.  I am not saying that I won't worry about validation.
That would be unethical.

Thanks,
Mikey

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