00110102… WTF?!?

I’ve been with netfirms for awhile now and I’ve hated it. most of the time theya re giving me problems.

A site I made and hosted on my account was causing all my sites to go down because of some stupid limit to 10 SQL connections at any time, or something to do with CPU usage, so for about 2 days all my sites were down untill I fixed it.

2 days ago all my sites went down for a little while because I had more than 1 people on my site at the same time, I couldn’t get to PHPMyAdmin because of this.

Another script I was going to use didn’t work at all, it always gave me errors or made all my sites go down for a coupple of hours. It wasn’t the script’s fault, I know of alot of sites running that esact same script and it works fine, but with netfirms it doesn’t. Ofcorse, to them it’s all my fault. My script must contain some bugs or something… even though it works fine for everyone with other hosting companies.

My netfirms account is supposed to give me 250GB space, 2TB bandwidth 30 MySQL databases, but out of that what’s usable? Especially since files bigger than 5MB download slowly (I haven’t actually tested this because I don’t have many files bigger than 5MB on any of my sites)

My netfirms hosting runs out in under 10 days, I’ve probably left it a bit too late but I’m not looking for a host to switch to. It seems like I can’t find anything good though. I’ve seen a few people recomending 1and1 but that would cost me way too much. According to netfirms I’m using 453MB of space (yet after I downloaded all my stuff I only had 186MB… I’m guessing my backup got screwed) and about 500MB bandwidth. I’m also using 7 MySQL databases and my Email isn’t with netfirms.

If I switch to 1and1 I have to go for their “Home” plan or higher… their home plan would cost me $12/month, that’s the same as the netfirms plan I’m on but I’m looking for something cheaper if possible.

I saw some people recomending dreamhost, I went to the site and saw $5.95/month and it looked perfect for me… untill i got to the bottom of the page. “* $5.95 paid 10 years in advance. $10.95/mo monthly, $9.95/mo for 1 year, $8.95/mo for 2 years, $7.95/mo for 3 years, $6.95/mo for 5 years. $49.95 set up fee if you pay monthly.” Who would pay for 10 years in advance? I only want to pay for 1 year in advance, long contracts suck. That means I would be paying the same ammount as I am for netfirms for a host that has 77,000 results for “dreamhost sucks” on google.

I have used freehostia before, I find them fast and reliable, Maybe I should go with 1 of their paid packages? It means I have to go for the “Advanced” plan, because I need to host 5 domains and about 40 subdomains (now that I checked that seems like HEAPS) I would only get 6 MySQL databases though, I was using 13 but I’m not using 7… off by 1 which means I need the “Xtra” package then unless I combine some of my databases. They also have a limit of databases size… a few of my databases are quite large so I wouldn’t want to go with them incase I reach the limit.

Anyone got any suggestions? I’m running out of time.