a better way to find a web host

[gmdavis]

Does anyone know of a good souce to compare price and features for web hosts?

I have found a few sites that claim to do this but they either don't have an exaustive selection of hosts (like c|net) or they do not have good enough filtering tools. (I don't want to visit every site returned jsut to find out half of them don't have PHP or something).

I'm looking for a reliable, cheap host that has PHP, Apache and useful stats (not just numbers but analysis).

Any thoughts? Advice? Reccomendations?

[stolzyboy]

I use www.olm.net for most of my customers

[goldbug]

I'd personally sign up with globat.com .
They've got a really nice deal that's hard to beat.

[gmdavis]

OLM Looks worth considering.

What is the difference between Urchin (which I think I want) and Urchin Lite? I didn't see the lite version on the urchiin site.

Do they really have toll free phone support? Do they actually answer or just put you on hold?

[goldbug]

Also, make sure whoever you choose has a 24/7 support number. Call them before you sign up and ask what modules are installed with PHP. I had a host a while ago that seemed to remove a PHP module every time they upgraded (when they took off GD support, I ran for the hills). Check to see that they plan on keeping the same general configuration/options for a while so you don't end up coding stuff that breaks later, due to admin idiocy.

[stolzyboy]

olm has free 24/7 phone, plus free 24/7 online help section, and yes they answer their phones

go here for a link for info on urchin lite

http://www.urchin.com/support/v3/faq/faq_install.html

[epimeth]

anybody try www.readyhosting.com?