Since I went away from Servage, I have looked through a lot of different hosting services.
The key points I was looking for:
- relatively cheap hosting: we are a non-profit organization and I am not a guru in web pages building;
- ssh access: that is a must if you want to do something quickly and least painful. Ftp is not ok anymore.
- rich statistics: awstats and alike is OK
- guaranteed uptime: if it is stated to be 99.98%, it should be guaranteed.
I didn't need some overwhelming space and bandwidth (which as you can see, are a big lie at some "nice" hostings, just a reasonable number I can really live with.
I finally found such a company, which doesn't advertise itself too much in the internet and has all the things that I want from the hosting company - it is Cyber Ultra! My projects are living with them for about half a year and I am completely satisfied. With both uptime and price.
Their guaranteed uptime is 99% (which is more or less OK for me) but 1% of probable downtime gets reflected in their price, it is just 3 EUR/month. Their actual uptime was 100% during past two months, and slightly below 100% before.
CyberUltra has SSH, cPanel, and therefore complete control over everything.
This is my third hosting company and I think they are simply the best!
P.S. Pity they don't have affiliate program, this post could bring me some additional credits :)