I could try to say that this post is relevant to plug since I'm looking 
for a hosting provider that runs Linux.. but we'd all know that's a 
poor rationalization.  This post is simply off-topic.  It's just that 
there are a lot of geeks here who are have long standing relationships 
with various hosting providers and I'm trying to find out some of them.

I am having Very Bad Luck at choosing hosting providers.  They tend to 
last between 3 to 6 months before their fatal flaws surface (down for a 
week at a time, all email bouncing, etc).  My latest one (SurfSpeedy) 
was looking so good for so long (relatively, 6 months, I think).. until 
I find out that a significant amount of mail sent to @granroth.org is 
bouncing and they have no idea why.  And then today I find out they are 
shutting down all SSH shell access to all users so no more rsync 
backups.  Arg!!  Alas that cox doesn't let me run my own servers...

Anyway, in the past, I've fixated on ultra-cheap hosting providers 
(under $7 a month... $1/mo in one case) so that's likely one of my 
problems.  It occurred to me when I found out mail was bouncing, 
though, that I value my email far more than my phone yet I have no 
problems paying over $20/mo for phone service.  So I'm willing to pay a 
bit more now.

Basically, I want/need the following:

Must have been around for at least 5 years
SSH shell access
Unlimited subdomains
At least 1 primary domain
At least 1 "addon" domain
At least 5 (and preferably unlimited) "parked" domains
At least 50 email accounts
Unlimited email forwarding
At least 5 mailing lists
IMAPS
 >500MB disk space
250MB/mo transfer limits

And it would be really nice if there was authenticated SMTP on a 
different port than 25 (blocked by cox.net)

It would also be nice (but not necessary) if they were local.  I 
checked out deru and fastq but neither had packages that matched my 
criteria.

So, if you've been with a hosting provider for a least a year or two 
and haven't had any email problems with them (and you think they might 
be able to help me), let me know!

Thank you,
Kurt

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