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Please help me in choosing web hosting

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Hi everyone,
I am sorry for possible offtopic, but I need your help in find new web hosting provider as soon as possible, because my current host (bluehost.com) is kicking me off, they say 'your account is using a lot server resources', but my website gets only about 200 visitors per day and my disk usage is 1500 MB (maybe they do not like that?)

Anyway, what would be your recommendations for getting reliable web hosting? Where are you hosting your websites? Are you happy with your providers?

I am now checking http://www.hosting24.com/ - offer looks very nice, but is it real that they can provide unlimited disk space?
I have contacted them about this question and they say something that "These days 500GB disk drive costs only $30 per month, so if some day we will run out of disk space we will simply add new 500GB disk drive with almost zero costs and you can continue uploading without any problems".

What do you think about it? Maybe things have changed in last 4 years? With my current provider I get only 2GB of disk space for $10 per month..
Any ideas and suggestions are much appreciated.
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question... why the low visitor count and the high disk transfer rate? What kind of site is this?

I have been with a dozen hosting companies over the years and I've been happy with several of them... Media Temple was solid, but had rolling brown outs a few years back that knocked their servers offline... It didn't happen often and they have great prices on grid servers. successful hosting is okay... Powweb is fairly solid for a site that does less than 10,000 people a day... All depends on your budget and how many GB per month of data transfer you want to pay for or have.
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I've used Dreamhost in the past, and was happy with the service, but it was a bit expensive if I remember for high bandwidth. I'm using GoDaddy right now for a client (because that's what they bought), and can never recommend it to anyone for ease of use, but the customer service is great, even at midnight, when you are just the tech guy working on someone else's site. My buddy used LiquidWeb for all his hosting, but I have no idea the pricing on it. He has been happy with the usability and service.
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I'm using Bluehost too and have been looking elsewhere for a host that has MS servers so I can run a ASP.NET site. I haven't had any issues with Bluehost. That doesn't sound like a large amount of data to be hosting...not sure why they would have an issue.
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Check these guys out. I've been using them for several years with no problems...Very reasonable rates and stellar support

http://www.glowhost.com/

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I heard 800-hosting is a great place! Top notch support from what I hear! ;) www.800hosting.com
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