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[ZAP]

I'm very pleased with Clook.

Their website says that they offer PHP4 and MySQL4; Do you have more recent versions of these on your account?

[sottwell]

Funny you should say that... I just asked them last night via the helpdesk to upgrade my VPS to php 5.2.4, and within 5 minutes I had a response, and within the hour had it done. They are in the process of upgrading all their shared servers to this as well; they've had it available as a secondary (via .php5, or switching with the .htaccess file) for some time now.

http://www.clook.info/forum/showthread.php?t=6368&highlight=php5

Actually I could have done it myself, since I have SSH access to my server, but I keep changing my IP address every time my ISP packs up and I have to reset my router, and then Clook has to change the allowable IPs for SSH access... it's a lot easier to have them do it!

[BobRay]

At Lunar Pages, I have a button in cPanel to enable/disable php5.

I haven't actually used it so I'm not sure how that's implemented.

Bob

[chinesedream]

I am with Media Temple but have sent many clients to Hostgator. For the price it offers, Hostgator is one of the top best shared hosting. Customer services are excellent and the tech support staffs are knowledgeable. It's located at Texas therefor not so much worry about the power blackout like (mt), dreamhost where the datacenter is at Southern California. The only main reason  I didn't go with Hostgator myself is because I personally don't care much about Cpanel, but I'd been thinking about it lately, as I realized the value it offers is much better than the pricey (mt).

[rthrash]

To revive and make a suggestion for the green hosting problem, I'd really suggest skipping the whole issue and getting a rock-solid, known reliable host. Then you can purchase your own carbon offsets – heck maybe even exceeding your carbon contribution and becoming super-green – so you can have the same effect and a known player in a mission critical area of infrastructure.

http://www.wikihow.com/Buy-a-Carbon-Offset

[dev_cw]

That is good advice.

[ZAP]

To revive and make a suggestion for the green hosting problem, I'd really suggest skipping the whole issue and getting a rock-solid, known reliable host. Then you can purchase your own carbon offsets – heck maybe even exceeding your carbon contribution and becoming super-green – so you can have the same effect and a known player in a mission critical area of infrastructure.

I agree. This is most likely what we'll do from now on, unless we get some strong recommendations for AISO. Hosting isn't the only thing that these folks do that uses energy, of course, so they could purchase sustainable electricity and carbon offsets for all their energy consumption this way.

[vibeGirl]

MediaTemple.net has been great in the several months I've been with them. And they are darned fast!

Mark, what type of plan do you have with MediaTemple? 

Last year, I moved my reselling account there (I have 20 domains to host) but quickly ran into a memory problem - my server and all 20 sites was crashing daily.  At MediaTemple's request, I upgraded my account twice just to keep all my domains online.  This ended up being more expensive than my original plan, so I left them and went back to my reselling plan with BlueGenesis.  I was very sad about this because I liked MediaTemple's control panel and the fact that they allowed ion_cube loaders (which was why I wanted to leave BlueGenesis).

I'm still looking for a better reseller hosting plan... and wondering what happened with MediaTemple.

[Pixel Stuff]

I'm still using 1&1 because I don't have a lot of high bandwidth needs.

But just about anytime I see a discussion of host companies, Rack Space comes up as one of the number one picks.
http://www.rackspace.com/ I assume they must be pretty great for high demand situations. But, maybe you pay for that level too. I don't know.

However, if I were selling space to other companies, I think I would probably look at Mosso. The built in invoicing abilities and client management looks very cool.

[smashingred]

I haven't chimed in here but I have come across many hosts over my 10years plus hosting sites and I can say that for shared hosting I am very happy with Hostdime. While they are a vanilla cPanel host who offers shared, shared reseller, VPS and dedicated servers (I am using shared reseller for my clients) they have real 24/7 support and even though there have been downtime issues in the past they are responsive and you can call and talk to someone who can fix your server quickly (save for a server fire which took 3 days to restore from tape).

I have also had good relationships with blacksun.ca and recently came across a host that offers nothing but virtual dedicated servers for a low price and you can basically host anything you want at jumpline.com. Their servers seem fast and customer service is pretty good.

One I have had nothing but trouble with is netfirms.com/.ca they offer cut-and-paste support and blame customers for overuse of servers but can't provide logs of problem scripts or even the resource or access activity.

Hope this helps.

Jay

[ChuckTrukk]

Let me just say BE VERY VARY OF MOSSO

I used them for about 6 months on some of my client sites (static and LAMP). They were down SOOOOOO much. One full weekend their mysql servers were down.

Thats a big deal when you're paying $100 a month. If I'm going to pay $100 a month, Ill go with something fast and stable. They were slow running for me as well.

So just be wary. I lost a lot of hair while I was with them (and one good weekend on the lake)

[Pixel Stuff]

"Let me just say BE VERY VARY OF MOSSO"

I haven't used Mosso, but the concept of what they offer sounds good. Of course if they can't deliver then doesn't matter.

I wonder if it's an issue of software, on top of software, on top of software, on top of software?
(Rack Space + Mosso + YOU + Your Client)

[ChuckTrukk]

Well I was with them about 6months or a year ago. And part of the problem did seem to be software on top of software as well as they were doing cutting-edge stuff. Having ASP files running in the same folder as PHP is pretty cool.

It just didnt work out while I was there. I hope they get it together because it sounds GREAT.

[NewViewMedia]

Been with www.dreamhost.com for a few years now and it's been great.  Have my main websites on a dedicated server (not dreamhost) and the extra fun ones on shared dreamhost account.  Everything you could possible need for a reasonable price.  If you enter the promo code 'newviewmedia' there's $20 off of your first year of registration.

[sinbad]

I had dreamhost for the past 6 months and they have more down time than uptime. only in the past 3 weeks my site (and 400 others who bitch on their server status page) was down 3 times for periods of 3-12 hours. that kinda suck when you run a biz site and not just a blog or playground.
they have lots of features for great price, and the shell is nice too if you want to master the rm command, but I guess I get what I paid for. I'm planing to move my 3 sites away from them as soon as I can get access to phpmyadmin again.

[dev_cw]

I think it boils down to shared hosting being a matter of luck. Each machine (server) has it's own issues that can be affected by certain users abusing the system. The same goes for VPS servers, who are basically shared servers. This is why some users can he happy cats while others can be frustrated with the same hosting company.

[ganeshXL]

I can recommend http://nine.ch/

Not exactly cheap, but you get what you pay for.
Support is great (via phone or email), they know what they're doing. Need an Apache module or Perl module / library installed? No problem. Need subversion, Ruby or Tomcat? Bingo.

The choice was mainly because they're a real company, located in my own city, with real offices and humans you can call by phone. None of that "support by email only" or "my business is in my bedroom" nonsense... Plus, they're next to one of the biggest datacenters in town and got some very smart people on board.

[simonok]

I now use media temple and its great so far with modx, don't use webfusion vps, it was always slow running modx and it kept going down.

[spacefish]

I've heard only good things about A Small Orange, they seem to have good support, they have a friendly support forum, a wiki and checking out some sites hosted there their server speeds seems to be OK.  Has anyone tried them using Modx - or heard anything positive/negative?

[smashingred]

I have heard of ASO and they seem to be on the ball.

I received notice that HostDime (with whom I host) that they are migrating all servers to PHP 5 and MySQL 5. The end of PHP 4 is near...