Novel Worlds went down for a WEEK when my incompetent host, yes -another one, went down yet again. This time they blamed me for their jellied monkey brains. I've had enough. I pulled the plug on my hosts, all of them. All my sites are on google for now until I get my own server tuned up and ready to roll. I have a nice DL380 G3 running Ubuntu server 64 bit sitting in my rack in the garage, plugged into a fiber optic line.

I need another static IP, and I'm going to upgrade to maximum bandwidth. This coming fall I'm going to add a second FIOS line and have it dedicated to the server alone. I won't pay for completely retarded service ever again.

lunarpages.com - total failure. bait and switch. locks down domains when they can't figure out how to run their servers.
chihost.com - didn't notice that their server was turned off for a week.
pair.net - also tried to force me to upgrade to dedicated hosting when they had problems serving a few low-level PHP pages with all of ten users.

There are so many horror stories, but the three above are supposed to be PROFESSIONAL. These tout themselves as COMMERCIAL HOSTS. They are not. They are complete liars and fail in every way possible to be a real host. Like all other hosting providers, they have been lying since birth and can't seem to find any other career where they can legally commit blatant fraud and get paid for it, the way they can as hosts.

NEVER pay for hosting.
NEVER pay to become a model or actor.
NEVER pay to get hired.
NEVER pay to get money.
NEVER pay to be published.

These are all scams.