Webfaction has been my hosting provider for a couple years now. I’ve set up prolly six or so clients with them as well. I am absolutely in love with them.
I’ve never had a single problem with them or a second of downtime (that I noticed anyway). Their cPanel interface is great to use and allows me to do pretty much everything I need. You ever have to call your web host to change domain settings or to have them install an app on your server? Then you need a new web host. Oh, and they’re pretty cheap. Like five to ten bucks a month cheap for their shared 1 plan, which is more than enough for me. Not as cheap as GoDaddy maybe, but seriously, GoDaddy? GoDaddy suuuuuuuuuuuucks.
I’ve only had to contact Webfaction twice with questions and the support staff has emailed me back so fast its like I’m their only customer. The other day I was wondering how to set up Apache with some PHP options that weren’t in the default install. I submitted a support ticket at 10:15pm and got a personal reply 12 minutes later. And let me tell you, this was no easy answer. Turns out you can install a custom Apache instance with whatever settings you want as a custom app on their server. Isn’t that just insane?! I’m totally doing it, even though it turns out the project I was doing it for is not happening. But awesome, right?
So here it is again: