I look for a decent amount of space 90MB+. Friendly & helpfull staff. php & mysql. ftp. and Trap17 has delivered it all =D

The first thing I see for a webhost is "Price" obviously...
Since I don't have credit card, paypal, in fact I'm just broke High School student "Free" webhost is only my hopes!
Have a plenty of space and bandwidth to start a good website at least +150MB would be good.
The important one, advertisement! I mostly looking banner free webhsoting, banner in my pages just make my website unprofessional.
and then PHP, mysql, cpanel is a surplus
the last one but not least Uptime...

I look for space, uptime, FTP (I mean come on, nobody can stand uploading 150 files one by one just to find out the CMS you're trying to use doesn't work), space (always important), A MySQL Database, and PHP. Never used to like post-to-host hosting, but the features here are just WAY too good to ignore. Also, I also need it to be free, since I don't have a credit card

sometimes,eh,maybe renting the server of your self will soluted the problem.

and just thinking if a site getting bigger and bigger ,the downtime is a big problem confused us,we just don't know when it will down,and when it will get back.
if we just don't know the downtime ,or while we just not online.we will lost so much traffic and we just not telephoned the service provider.

if the money is a problem for your server.i think rent it with some friends is a good ways.
choose a good isp and enjoy our own server.
guangdian

I usually look for something that's FREE, has a decent web space allocation, has PHP and MySQL support (you usually don't get it for free, except here in trap) and a good bandwidth.