Good hosts, bad hosts - share your experiences

[tomc]

Talk about your experiences with hosting companies, both bad and good.....<br /><br />First the bad list:<br />ASO (a small orange) - use to have the best tech support 5 years ago, now is constantly down, takes forever to get things fixed, etc...<br />Hostgator - never know when it&#39;s going to be down, sometimes so slow it&#39;s painful... then again, you&#39;re paying practically nothing<br />..... luckily the 3 other hosts i&#39;ve been with who I left because of poor service are no longer in business..<br /><br />The good ones:<br />for shared hosting:<br />vectorlevel - still a small company, dirt cheap prices on brand new servers with hardly anyone on them... great tech support too<br /><br />VPS - <br />Slicehost + linenode - i&#39;ve had vps accounts on both, linode uses xen and gives u a little more ram for your money, but oddly enough, slicehost always seemed faster. I&#39;d recommend both in a heartbeat for anyone looking to make the move from a shared hosting environment to a VPS account<br /><br />Dedicated Host - Un-managed - <br />Softlayer - can&#39;t beat the prices, can&#39;t beat the support for setup + emergencies.... Currently have two servers hosted with them, about to add a third.<br /><br />

[ziggyff]

I use jaguarpc.com shared plan and I have olnly one complaint - they had server breakage and didn&#39;t restored my file structure properly - thus I had problems with parked domains.

[CordM]

I have used crystaltech for over a year and have never had a problem with them. They have online 24/7 support that is always helpful and willing to help you with your problem.