A good hosting package for me?

Hey,
I'm currently creating a (hobbyist) travel website, which uses PHP & MySQL. I was wondering if anyone knew of any good hosting companies who offer this? I ask because I was going to go with 123-Reg due to their prices, but then I read that their customer support is absolutely poor and that they don't actually offer PHP anyway (silly me lol).
I had a look at LunarPages, but, as this is my first site (and consequently, I don't know much about hosting), I'm not sure if having my website hosted in the US will really affect me (I'm in the UK). Will it matter very much, or should I just go for it?
Any suggestions/answers would be much appreciated

Go with a UK based host if you expect most of your traffic to come from the UK. Its better for you and the Internet that way. There are lots of high-quality UK based hosts who monitor this channel. I'm sure one of them will be able to hook you up.
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Paul
PDXHosting.net (US)

Hi Jack,

As Paul suggested, if majority of the traffic on your website would be from UK, you should host your website on servers in UK. We are a UK based host and our servers are based in UK ( London ), we can offer you PHP/MySQL hosting at an affordable cost.

You can view our linux shared hosting packages at http://www.eukhost.com/packages.php

Should you have any queries, feel free to ask here or PM me or you can also contact 24x7 Live Chat support on our website.

Thanks

Hi,

We offer UK based hosting on Core 2 Duo servers using Raid-5 in Bluesquare, Berkshire, United Kingdom.

Prices start at £2.99/Month for 500MB disk space, however we can also discuss a custom package to suit your needs. Live chat is generally available every evening however you can also use the contact form on our site.

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Hi,

I'd recommend Visual Net Centre ..

Not the cheapest, but also not the most expensive either..

Support is just a phone call away anytime!

They support pretty much everything as standard too.. Asp, PHP, Cgi, MySQL.

I use them for all of my clients and have had no trouble at all..

Regards,
Mike

Hello,

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If you do not mind a US server toward the Easter Coast, I can happily host you with considerable amounts of bandwidth and space. 1/2 of all profits go to a good cause, hopeforanotherday.org is the main site. Our hosting services can be found on hosting.hopeforanotherday.org/

hi,
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Regards