Hosting companies - recommendations?

[PurchSEO]

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[malachiii]

Im shocked you've been having issues with dreamhost... I absolutely love them.  I havent heard of the other hosting companies you've mentioned, but anything with "Seo" and "hosting" sounds like a gimmick to me.. If you are unsatisfied, I've also used hosting.com for some cf stuff we've had to do and they are pretty good.

[sferrino]

Are you looking for a shared hosting, VPS, private server?

I have 2 VPS's and admin 3 private servers on Liquidweb.com with zero problems with the servers or getting support. The support questions were billing and modifications to the servers, not server related hardware or software issues.

[RyanKent]

I agree with Malachi in that I would be cautious about any host with "seo" in the name.

I have had good experiences with surpasshosting

[networkelites]

I am with Malachi, I totally disagree about Dreamhost.  Of the various shared hosting providers I have used, they are easily the best.  Clean simple interface, less silly limits on things like email addresses, domains, and databases.  And good, responsive customer support.

[NiftyMarketing]

Dreamhost is solid. Outside of them HostGator is probably the next best best. I wouldn't use any of the ones you have listed.

[KeriMorgret]

If you don't need dedicated hosting, I really like tigertech.net. Sphinn runs on it, as does Matt Cutt's blog. It can handle heavy traffic and spikes from Digg and the like without a problem.

Looks like seohosting.com is a hostgator company. The rest I don't recognize in names, and at least one of them looks awfully keyword stuffed.

[PurchSEO]

Seohosting.com is actually a hostgator company - and we're going with hostgator for this. These recommendations above came during the Distilled conference in New Orleans for reference. Thanks for all your feedback!