Lincolnite

I host a bunch through dreamhost.  Jwilt used them for a while and switched to site5 I think.

We had a similar problem.  Our hosting company was bought out and in their infinite wisdom, decided to move all of their server to a different location.  This was supposed to happen overnight, but our server ended up being offline for about 4 days.  Switched providers really quick like.

We’re now using ServerBeach for our ecommerce sites.  It’s a dedicated server, so it may be more than your looking for, but they’ve been very responsive to anything that’s gone wrong.

...and have never had any problems with them.

A++ WOULD RENEW AGAIN 😉

For my clients I either use hostmysite.com or GoDaddy.com.  Although they are the Wal-Mart of hosting, I’ve had great luck with GoDaddy.  Their support is good and the single panel management is really good.

For my highest end clients, I recommend Edge Web Hosting, but they are mostly dedicated or semi-dedicated.

I have not had the best luck with 1 & 1 Hosting, but they are bottom of the barrel.

I just switched a site to 1&1;after someone else recommended them and after my previous host’s service became unacceptable. I haven’t had any problems on the service side, but the admin side is remarkably user unfriendly.

What kind of problems have you had with them, Buffmeat? I’ve only been there for a few months.

I had a nasty billing issue that happened on a Friday and no one in the office was able to help my until business hours on Monday morning.  The result was a site was down for 3 days.  Unacceptable for me.  I also agree that once it’s up, I have not had problems, but the admin needs a lot of work.

Just my 2 cents though.

Site5! Site5! Site5! Site5!

They have a multi-site plan that’s exactly what your looking for, they’re reasonably priced, downtime is almost non-existent, support almost always gets back to me the same day I file a ticket.  It’s so good, I don’t even hand out a referral link because I like it that much.

I use GoDaddy.

I use asmallorange.com. I have occasionally had problems with my site being down, but they are willing to move my site to a new server if it gets bad. The big standout is service- I have always been able to get very quick replies to my problems, usually from one of three people.

I may look into Site5 now, though 😉

Also, one of the support guys’ name is Dragon.

I mean, how f’ing cool is that?

Oh, and the other thing I like about asmallorange (and why I went with them in the first place) is you don’t have to sign on for a year contract, you can start out month to month at a reasonable price.

Just to throw this out there, I have also been pointed to Hostgator as a good option. Let me know if anybody has thoughts on them.

I’d like to steer everyone away from Deltawebhosting. It’s extremely cheap, the backside is extremely user-friendly, and their tech support people are usually very quick to respond (sometimes like a matter of minutes, never more than a few hours), but they are remarkably incapable of fixing anything, and there are numerous downtimes throughout the day.

This post is going to get more comments than the one about boobs if y’all aren’t careful.

Sad, sad.

Is there something wrong with your basement?

Huh?

Residential internet connections simply do not provide enough upload bandwidth to host popular websites in most cases.

Plus securing a websserver, backing it up, etc.. is a struggle that is way more pain than it is worth.  Plus the cost of a better connection would be more than a hosting service.

Ahh, thanks to beerorkid I think I see what Matt was referring to. I don’t do any hosting from my own computers, other than local development stuff. I’m no server administrator; lord knows what some 8 year-old hacker could do to a system I tried to manage on my own.

beerorkid is right, for a business like mine outsourcing hosting is the only way to go. The sites I need to move are all very low traffic, (relatively) low budget sites so they don’t need all the bells and whistles. Just a good, quality host that comes with good recommendations.

Boobs! I recommend them highly!

Danica Patrick and I still like GoDaddy. If you think about it, it has webhosting and boobs all in one!

I used Network Redux for a couple of years with no problems, but then had a stretch of horrible issues from them, followed up with even worse customer service.

I switched to Bluehost and have been nothing but impressed with them. They host my business and 4 family websites.

http://www.bluehost.com/

I was with 1and1 for awhile and had very good luck with them until a few months ago. The server my sites were on started having daily downtime. I went to a VPS through Slicehost. They have been great, but I realize not everyone is looking for maximum control over your server as I was. They do have tutorials to set it up as you wish however. I use godaddy as my registrar, which works good for that small task.