How to do a simple research in the web to find a good hosting provider.

Browse several web sites that you familiar. Check the page loading time.

Check site uptime and hosting provider using  netcraft.com. It gives the server details such as

OS, web server name etc.

What do you recommend?

I have been in this field in past few years, and I had very bad experiences about bas hosting providers.

Finally I found a good hosting provider that I use for more than one year. That is http://www.hostgater.com.