Web Hosting Provider Recommendations

[Mark Holtz]

I am about to send the message "You're fired!!!" to my current web hosting provider and am looking for a new hosting service. Features that I am looking for: Linux hosting PHP5 support without any funky extensions. (Sorry, GoDaddy) MySQL with phpMyAdmin support IMAP SMTP with alternative ports .procmailrc or EXIM support Catch-all account SSH would be nice FTP supportIf this works out, I may be bringing over a non-profit's web site.

I tend to distrust the "Web hosting reviews" on the search because, for all I know, they could be put out by the web hosting provider themselves who operate under several names. :(

[funhouse69]

I was going to suggest Go Daddy as I have been more than thrilled with them for almost 2 years since my ISP went Bye, Bye. But based on your message Go Daddy is going to be the one getting Fired?

[Mark Holtz]

While I do have some issues with godaddy (no IMAP support, PHP5 support requires that you use .php5 extension), they're nothing like my current hosting provider (P4Host, which has gone down the toilet).

[AlbertZeroK]

ThePlanet.com - but you can only get whole servers, no shared hosting. We have 3 ThePlanet servers.

[ibglowin]

Have hosted sites at rackspace for several years with no problems. There big and reliable.

I also have a site hosted here: http://www.brownrice.com/

Owned by a personal friend that will bend over backwards to make you happy. Whatever you need.

[Mark Holtz]

Sigh.... I just tried hostmonster tonight. That's when I discovered that they don't support a catch-all account. That's fine and dandy for 99% of the users. I'm not part of the 99%, as I use the e-mail addresses as a filter for IMAP. Sigh...

[Cholly]

How about 1& 1 ? I see their ads in computer magazines.
www.1and1.com

[STEVEN-H]

We have switched to NetworkSolutions and like them very much after 2 months.

[jayerndl]

Lunarpages might work for you. You also might want to checkout Bluehost. I have used both with minimal issues. Good luck.

Jay

[DonLandis]

Mark- I have been using Host Rocket for several years now. They are not perfect but the 2-3 times a year I have to send in a trouble ticket they are on it in a flash and we're usually back fixed in less than an hour.

I needed a service that has big tubes ( Ted Stevens) I resell VOD hosting service. I never have any customer complaints about performance. Some of them have tried other's providers and they break down when the demand is more than one hit on the video at a time. They get server busy messages. I have never had a server busy error yet. But since you don't need a service that can handle multiple hits of streaming video, the thing you need to look for is up time % and how long a trouble ticket takes to be resolved. From my references, this was the problem at GoDaddy.com.

[Doug Brott]

Mark, hopefully I'm not getting here too late :) Give site5.com a try. They have other plans, but if you're willing to spend now for 2 years up front, this is a tough plan to beat:

$5/month - 165GB storage, 5TB of bandwidth/month

I use SSH all of the time to get in and make modifications.