I recently got hosted with a truly excellent host called ChronicHosting.com
Their customer support is very professional with quick friendly replies within a very short time. Their staffs are friendly and cater for the very technical and basic of questions without being rude or treating you like an incompetent user.
From the Network-Tools.com lookup on their domain and my domain their servers are located in Datacenters in Chicago and Dallas, with the Dallas servers being located in the awesome "ThePlanet" datacenter.
Our site is running, last time I checked, Apache 1.3.28, PHP 4.3.3, MySQL 4.0.X, Redhat Linux. In the three weeks we have been using their service, there has been NO downtime (100% uptime) on the HTTP, FTP, POP3 or SMTP services. This is evident from their
Support Page Uptime Calculator and the independent statistics of a very popular and reliable uptime checker (Checked at intervals of 30 minutes on HTTP, FTP and Mail).
The most basic package ChronicHosting has to offer is VERY cheap (only a mere $3.50) and comes with 250 MB of space, 5 GB Transfer, Domain Hosting, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Apache, Linux Servers, CPanel, Frontpage Extensions, Subdomains, FTP, POP3 Mail Boxes, Raw Log access and HEAPS more. Their Linux plans can be seen
here. At $3.50 with NO setup fees theirs no real harm in trying them out for a month and deciding if you will stay with them (I'm very sure you'll stay with them!).
Other customer feedback can be seen on their
site and their you can also see links to sites which are hosted by them.
I am VERY CONFIDENT ChronicHosting will live way past your expectaions and that you will have a very enjoyable hosting experiance with them, jsut like I have.
Regards,
Rick