What host do you personally use? Do you like it?

[Mark07]

I personally like Web Hosting UK - Windows ASP PHP MySQL Linux cPanel hosting Service mainly because of their support as its always up and friendly and also of their packages which are very competitive in hosting.

 

[TonyB]

I use a reseller package from Hawk Host - Shared, Reseller and Dedicated Web Hosting

They used to be called Devoted Host - I cant even remember a time when ive had downtime for longer than a minute or two, even then, those have been few and far between.

There support is often available via Live Chat and respond promptly to email. Overall, they are the best host ive ever used.

I do plan on switching to a VPS or Dedicated box(With Managemybox) at some point, but for a reseller package, Hawk Host ftw

I appreciate the mention, and I'm glad your experience has been a great one since you've been with us.

As for VPS and such one thing you need to always keep in mind is a VPS does not mean you may have better performance than a reseller or shared package. To run a control panel and all the services there is a lot of overhead in ram and CPU that will drag a VPS down big time. So if you're on a reseller that is pretty lenient you may not see any performance increase at all when switching to a VPS. All it'll provide is the ability to install packages the host may not do. That's a huge reason why we haven't done VPS although with the ever increasing amount of requests for it I have a feeling it's coming.

 

[casidnet]

Yes $3.95 seems too cheap but they also have intermediate plans ~$15

Even that seems too cheap for a decent VPS setup. Plus they don't tell you how much of a server you get so they could have a ton of them on one server and your performance will suck for anything over a basic site. Like I said before, I didn't find anything really bad(and recent) but that would definately worry me.

As for the original question.

I use A2Hosting for most of my php sites, Never had any problems with them except I don't like their rails hosting. Used them for years too.

I use speedyrails for rails dev, great service(I've never waited more than 20 minutes for a support mail and I mail at pretty random times).

and I just started using railsplayground.net for my main rails hosting. So far seems pretty good. Fair price decent features, nice admin interface. I've only had them for a month though so can't say for sure.