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40hz:
I'm in the planning stages for a new tech website.

Searching for a host has been an eyeopener.

I was wondering if anybody had any (preferably experience-based  ;D) opinions about various webhost providers. The planned site will primarily be text oriented and use one of the more popular CMS solutions (i.e. Drupal or Joomla). I'm not expecting any need for huge transfer quotas for the first year or two. This puppy will be self-funded, so pricing is also a factor. I'd like to stay somewhere in the $500/yr range for out-of-pocket.

For every one recommendation there's at least one matching horror story. Anybody have any raves or caveats?

Thankee!

justice:
http://nethosted.co.uk/  gets a lot of recommendation and I can only agree. tickets get responses within 10-30 minutes and manages to keep that small family feel with a total professional commitment. It's in the UK and it's not the cheapest however i'm sure u'd stay under 500 dollars.

Look at http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ and you'll find good offers and discussion.

mediaguycouk:
I'm from the UK but use USA based http://www.sbhostingsolutions.com/

Little business but the couple of guys there make a new definition for the term support. Fantastic.

Standard hosting @ $11.95/month = $143. And at US-UK conversion rate that's cheap as chips for us.

yotta:
im in uk too but http://www.servage.net comes with my recommendation, £4.50 so about $9/month, its doesnt have to fastest load times (see http://nico.yottagames.net for an example), but comes with 510gb disk space and 5.01tb BW/month. it also comes with an optional auto-installer option for software like joomla.

ChalkTrauma:
I recently moved my site to lunarpages.com, I have had no complaints and it beat the pants off my last host as far as features to price ratio.

I pay $94 for the year with unlimited domains.. I don't have a high traffic volume so I can't speak to that, but I'm pretty happy with the service and the public forums are very friendly, helpful, and support techs get involved in the discussion.

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