[Phplib-users] Web hosting recommendations

[Mike G. <Mik...@sa...>]

Hi!

I am looking for a new web hosting service (virtual hosting).

For three years I have used and been very happy with Adgrafix.com on the
basis of the quick, competent responses they consistently gave. In fact
I recommended them often, perhaps on this list even. Last year, however,
Adgrafix.com was bought out by another concern and has become
Hosting.com. It turns out that Hosting.com's tech support responsiveness
is essentially non-existent. So I am looking for recommendations for a
new hosting service for the several web sites for which I am
responsible.

My requirements:

* rapid, competent tech support response,
* reliability (high server up times),
* LAMP (Linux -- or Unix -- Apache, MySQL, and PHP -- and Perl),
* the ability to modify the Apache configuration myself (in order to
modify the PHP configuration -- it would be better still to have access
to the php.ini file in addition to the Apache configuration file),
* email tools like aliasing, list servers, and
* reasonable cost.

All of these were features on which I could rate Adgrafix.com high --
although their costs were not the lowest. Hosting.com has lost me now on
the first point -- which in fact impacts the second one.

TIA for your recommendations.

Mike Green