I made a big move a couple weeks ago with my main site; I moved to a host with lots more disc space and bandwidth. The extra bandwidth was what I really needed most, but there’s nothing wrong with more disc space.

The host looked good, has a great reputation - in fact, I would still recommend them (Dreamhost, and not just because of the affiliate program; I’m hosting other sites with them), but they had some limitations I just couldn’t deal with for that particular site.

Tried another host. They were probably good, but when I transferred the Aspects of Home Business site over, something happened with one of the scripts running on the site, and it ate 6 Gig of bandwidth in about 12 hours, so they booted me with about an hour and a half’s email warning; that is to say very, very little warning since I read the email about an hour after it was sent. Even when I offered to remove the site they wouldn’t work with me to let my main site, which was not the problem at all, be up and running for my visitors. They claimed that my sites had been causing problems for days, which is interesting since I did get a look at the logs and it was quite clear which site caused the problems, and it had only been on their servers for about 12-14 hours before they shut it down. Yes, I caused a problem, but it wasn’t deliberate and I still haven’t figured out why the script went bonkers, and the site runs just fine now. Obviously, I can’t recommend them. Not just for giving me the boot, but also because they kept insisting that I had caused trouble for days when that was completely untrue and because they wouldn’t work with me at all.

Finally, I found Site5. Now that has been a good experience. My site is up and running, and they even helped me get my discussion boards get online, when that turned into a major, major problem. Fast tech support and very friendly. Utterly amazing disc space and bandwidth. A control panel that lets you do more than manage your sites - you can manage your billing too. I’ve only been a customer for a few days, and I’m impressed. Their discussion boards tell you when outages are expected and when servers should come back online - plenty of effort to keep you, the customer informed.

I like that.