I would like to open a website for my small business.
What should I be looking for?
When you're looking to open up a small business website, traffic and disk space are way down on your list of concerns.
Your main concerns should be:
1) How are you going to get visitors to your website?
2) How are you going to make a transaction with the customer?
While it's not the responsibility of your host to provide you with visitors to your website, many now offer significant advertising deals with major groups like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo that essentially give you free advertising space on search engines that attract users specifically looking for your product or service. Ever seen that "Ads by Google" logo? That could be you.
Secondly, you're going to want to go with a host that has a good shopping cart setup so that you can list your products and services, and get your orders without having to worry about any complicated script setups or programming.