Are you still with the same host as a year ago?

I've been going through some of the old threads here and people had hosting with MediaTemple, Dreamhost and a variety of others. Are you still using them? Even if you are still using them are you happy or just waiting to make a move?

I'm looking for hosting for a growing picture gallery site, a blog (~120 existing posts) and 3 static HTML sites with room to grow. The gallery is just starting to get known and this month I've had close to a GB of bandwidth with it.

HostGator has a limitation of 50,000 INODES/files which worries me with the gallery site - clean install has 12-13,000 and every picture generates 2 files and then there's the cache it uses to limit CPU usages that can generate tens of thousands of files. With the plans I have for the site, I suspect I would hit the 50k wall within a year between all 5 sites. I had pretty much scratched them off the list anyway but now I worry if other hosts have similar limitations.

Any general opinions on grid, clustering, and cloud hosting? Don't quite understand what the difference between the 3 is; but am familiar with cluster technology from back in my mainframe days. Can't believe it's "new" for PC servers. 

I want to only do business with a principle - the people who own the machines. I would love to find something kinda in the middle - not the $4-5 per month with unrealistic offerings and not Pair with $30 per month for their smallest plan. But, I am looking for uptime, communication, and even a little hand holding now and then. And I do not want a host that moves your sites from server to server, breaks your blog, and then tells you a site is up when it is toast.

Sorry, this got a bit long. It's been a long weekend of research on this.

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Media temple I tried their gridhosting it is OK for hobby sites
but since they have not gotten the grid technology down right
there is occasional downtime

I am on their DV for the last 4 months
( a VPS really ) which costs $50 / month (not
really cheap)  but I am happy with it, never had a problem

Read more about what I think of them
http://www.squidoo.com/mediatemple

If you want something less expensive try any of the packages here
http://www.innohosting.com/
Have been with them for over 8 months
and their support blows my mind (most requests answered within an hour)

I think that you need to creat short research desk and run your own survey on it.

I use blue host. I love them, they are responsive, they are cheap. they provide everything. I am not an affiliate and promote them as these come up only because they rock.

I have been hosted by the same company for about 5 years now. 

I think it is also important to have a third party monitor the uptime rate of your site so as to give you a good idea if you need to swtich to a new host

Yep, I've been using the same hosts for quite sometime now. But I have more than one host, so there's some other ones which I recently started to use. But my main host, I've been using for at least one year now.

Yep, I've been using the same hosts for quite sometime now. But I have more than one host, so there's some other ones which I recently started to use. But my main host, I've been using for at least one year now.

How many hosts do you have and how long have you been with them?

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