I note that you recommend WebHost4Life as a hosting option. While I am a long time customer and while have been mostly happy with them, I recently came across this:
http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6616_102-0.html?threadID=332256
http://webhost4lifecustomers.ning.com/forum
It seems they may have been bought out and hence are moving all existing accounts to a new platform with many problems ensuing. My account has not yet been moved yet but has been flagged with numerous issues by their automigration tool. I am not currently hosting nopCommerce with them.
I am evaluating nopCommerce and would like to know if anyone who has hosted with WebHost4Life has had their site successfully migrated to the new platform. or if there have been issues.