A kind-of-new hosting provider & another to avoid

Nothing new here, but my hosting provider just changed it's reseller. You may have noticed a blip or two if you logged in recently - so that explains it.

Another project I've been working on recently involves a different style of website on a completely different web host. I have discovered many new things about hosting, security, and the whizz-bang world of web-hosting.

I've also learned that you truly get what you pay for. All I can say is don't EVER contemplate using dot5hosting for any website. They are cheap, but their hosting systems suck. Lots. Create a subdomain = a two day problem. Get a usable FTP account = two day problem. This stuff should just take 2 minutes altogether, and shouldn't require contacting live-chat support. I was also told today that there is no way you can connect to a server using FTP on the shell command line. Yeah. Live support at dot5 is on the ball.

Added to this is the Asia internet melt slow-down, and connecting to their servers is a painful process. It has much slower speeds than other webhost providers listed in John's hosting provider's entry & comments discussion section.

After pulling my hair out for quite a while about these small problems, today I came across this thread. It appears I'm not alone. In this thread I discovered bewaredot5hosting.com. Someone's taken their rage and made something constructive.

I really should have read these threads earlier.