The middle man companies are companies that buy a reseller package from a big company and sell it to you.

The middle man companies price is higher and their service in most case does not even exist.

When it come to choosing your hosting company, the service is a main factor.

Dealing Internet marketing and hosting my own websites, I have hosted my websites on many companies, many of them was a "middle man" companies, which earned my good money until the first problem arrived.  When the first problem came and my website was down (which meant to me a lose of money) their service was so bad in the good cases and not even exist in most cases.

I have learned it the hard way!

Three companies that always served me well and gave an excellent and quick service are Hostgator, Dreamhost and NetFirms.

If you want to sleep good at night and you don’t know which hosting to choose they try one of the above companies.

Another good advice that you should know, when you start don’t buy the most expensive package and the companies offer start with the one the the suite you best.

My recommendations for each company are:

• Hostgator – Choose the baby package I have about 20 websites hosted on that package if you want to think big they buy the reseller package.
  Hostgator is the only companies that offer Live support through chat with all the their package.

• Dreamhost – Dreamhost offer only one hosting plan which offer unlimited disk space.

• NetFirms – Choose the "NetFirms Advantage" or the the "NetFirms Business" if you want ASP and ASP.NET support.

If you are looking for an hosting company then give one of the above a try, I promise you that you won’t regret it.