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I don't know about anyone else, but I've loved my experience with Go Daddy. It's cheap, tech suport is 24 hours here in the U.S., they're friendly, and I've experienced maybe a total of 3 hours downtime in almost 2 years. Plus, they saved me when I screwed up my database when migrating betwen Serendipity platform to Wordpress.  If you search enough online, you can find a decent coupon code. If you pay a year up front you also get a discount.

I've used both godaddy and 1and1.  I had some issues with speed on godaddy, so have been using mostly 1and1 for the hosting.  Can't stand their domain tools though, so I still do most of my domain management through godaddy.

Lunarpages is great up to a certain traffic level.  Once I was getting close to 1000 pageviews a day I started to have issues.  I then switched to Media Temple.

Cheap hosting is good but what are your current traffic levels and what do you think they will be in the next year?  It may be worth paying some more for better hosting.

I have accounts with Host Gator and Bluehost…no complaints with either.  I've heard horror stories of Godaddy holding domains hostage but I don't have firsthand experience with their hosting. 

I used 1and1 a few years ago and their service sucked.  Their server crashed and all my sites were down for a week.  I called multiple times and never got a clear response of what was going on and when I asked them to transfer my sites to a functional server so I could stop losing money they refused.  I ditched them a short time later.

I used to be on Godaddy, but I found the speed to be on the slow side, and the website is too bloated for me.

For the past couple of years, I've been with bluehost, and I've had a good experience with them up until now. If ever you want to sign up with them, here's my shameless affiliate link plug ;) : http://www.bluehost.com/track/…..ly/hosting

I also used lunarpages at one point paying $4-5/month for shared hosting. After i reached around 1000 pv a day it started to get bogged down and have constant outages. 

I'm now on a dedicated virtual server with Media Temple – which is more expensive – $30/month, but well worth it in my eyes as it hasn't had a major outage in the year and a half i've been with them – and i host 6-7 sites on that server.

Anybody use justhost? They seems to be getting good review on the internet.

I'm just starting out and looking around for a good webhost too.

I'll say HostGator as well. I tried BlueHost first and it worked good for a little while then it seemed like every other day my site was down. The great part is it went down at lunch time so no site to visit for those folks. But I really think it's luck of the draw because I've heard people not having problems with them. But since I switched to HostGator I haven't gone down at all, knock on wood.

I use Bluehost and have no complaints ($6.95/mo). When I have tech support issues they answer my call without any hold time and are very helpful (which is difficult to find these days).

As for downtime, I setup pingdom.com (just enter your domain and email address) to send me a text or email anytime I lose service.  Since setting it up, it appears my site is only down for a total of about 5 minutes every other week, usually in off hours….pretty reliable if you ask me.

Feel free to email me if you want any advice or help on setting up cpanel there, i'd be happy to give out my number and walk you through it.

I am with Flexo – I have been using MediaTemple – but they don't really fit into most people's definition of low cost – they start at $20/month, but their DV servers start at $50 (which is what I use). But for a cheaper option – I really like bluehost.