I've used five or six of the big hosting companies...

I've used five or six of the big hosting companies, and a few of the smaller ones, and, so far, A2 is the best I've seen in terms of price, speed and customer support. My site is so small and my speed is so good, I'm using my development server almost entirely for backup, editing live on production (it's a small site as I said). One of the reasons I chose this outfit is that is not owned by the usual evil conglomerate that owns all the others. But I'm staying because it seems to care about the quality of its service. I'd heard a lot of great things about its service, and I found this to be accurate.

Oh yeah, and did I tell you which evil conglomerate-owned hosting company I dumped like a hot potato to come to A2? I thought you'd never ask. Hostgator. Do they suck? Not to be rude, but now that we're on the subject--Yes, they most emphatically do.