I use Linode and Rackspace for VPS's and Dreamhost and Bluehost for web sites. Dreamhost has gone downhill over the years in a variety of ways. Customer suppo

I use Linode and Rackspace for VPS's and Dreamhost and Bluehost for web sites. Dreamhost has gone downhill over the years in a variety of ways. Customer support, server response etc. Bluehost I use very lightly but it has been fine. Rackspace? Well, here's one of my Nagios logs from 24 minutes ago [2013-10-15 17:00:11] HOST ALERT: mondragon.whatsanovel.com;DOWN;SOFT;1;PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 83%, RTA = 5656.74 ms Yesterday it conked out nine times, to recover within ten seconds. I have to say I heard about this sort of thing before signing up. Linode has been fantastic. Great uptimes, free additions of bandwidth, disk space and so forth. Others have mentioned Ramnode here. That's a service I might consider if I was expanding. One reason I never signed up is last time around their new slots were full. Some services sell when they're overloaded, but they don't - why is why they're popular I guess. I may get a VPS there in the next few months and try them out.