Cheers
Jesse

Main problems to that hosting company (if it is an actual web hosting company)

1) Flash based – enough said, slow loading = loss of market client.

2) All i could find was how to access pump rooms, which i could give a flying $#$& about. I pay a server to host my web pages not to give a shit about fancy engineering.

3) Where the heck is the contact us page or login or for that matter the price listing?

You know what I see here? I see some web designer who is trying to impress the web community with some flash new tricks.

Nice try man but we go for accessibility not impressibility. Get real and try again

However, I’d like to give DreamHost another +1. I can’t recommend any other web host I’ve tried any higher than I recommend DreamHost (I’ve gone through Pair, RackSpace, 2mhost ~shudder- and LunarPages). DreamHost has quick service, friendly folks manning (and womanning) the phones, good pricing – and a sense of humor to boot!

That’s BeKaWe Media, located in Leipzig, Germany. The owner is known to be idealistic, trustful and able to set-up both properly adminstrated shared hosting as well as individually configured managed servers. I’m with this company for approx. 5 years by now and am still very very happy with the choice to switch to BeKaWe Media I made back then ;)

Official guaranteed up-time is 98,5% (as usual), but actually it’s somewhere around 99,7%, at least in my experience. If there ever was a bigger problem, it was quick and properly solved. Support by mail is available 24h a day, by local phone only during German standard working hours, but actually their reaction by mail has been quicker in most cases. Of course there’s a mobile phone number for emergency calls if something really ugly happened, but its only given out directly thanks to spam scanners and stuff wrecking havoc with privacy and data security.

cu, w0lf.

My two cents are not about the reliability or services of those two but about their transfer allowances. If you are going to put something together with any kind of throughput you will need to focus more on staying away from services with glass ceilings.

Look closely at the price/space/transfer alotments at liquidweb… they MUST be kidding. I’m also not seeing anything even close to decent at mediatemple for what they charge.

It may be laughed at by some but 1and1.com beats both of those hands down in not just price but they have unlimited transfer and their uptime for the last 5 years that I’ve been with them is superb. Also note… the first 3 months with them are free with no “subscription” fine print… ie leave when you want/need. Did I mention you get a free .com name from them that is free… FOREVER..? Not to forget that their datacenters are as up to date as it gets… http://order.1and1.com/flash/datacenter/index.html ummhmm. Pay the other trendy hosts double for reduced features if you want but don’t say you weren’t warned before you get the extra chareges when you hit the transfer ceiling or run out of GB’s.

I can highly recommend EngineHosting. My contact there is Nevin Lyne (@nevinlyne on twitter). They are the first host that made my site running great without me being worried each time they do something. Great and fast support as well.

They are small(ish) but sometimes that is what you want, large companies tend to get customer service badly wrong.