I've had several hosting providers and bytemark is by far the best.
The servers come pretty well built, and not full of pointless junk. So
as long as you can live without cpanel, they're awesome. The guys in
support know their stuff too. I think the servers are up in
Birmingham.
Manchester actually, and Open Panel [1] looks good as an alternative to cPanel.
I have my stuff split between Bytemark - http://www.bytemark.co.uk/
and Portfast - https://www.portfast.co.uk/.
I've found Bytemark good for Linux VM's and Portfast for DNS and mail
(their control panel is very usable).
Nat,
-adrian
I use Mythic Beasts for all my hosting stuff. No complaints! http://www.mythic-beasts.com/
Steve
I'm with contextshift.eu, based in the Netherlands which is handy given one of the sites I own :p owner lives in Canterbury though. Excellent value and great customer service.
(disclaimer: owned by one of my friends, and I get a free month if you say you heard it from me.)
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Obligatory Bitfolk plug. http://www.bitfolk.com - the owner is a hackspace member, they provide the server for hackspace.org.uk, their support is ace and they don't enrage me even a little bit.
Portfast/BM good too.
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