I have a friend who's looking for a new hosting company and I can't recommend the one I currently use myself. Does anyone have any recommendations? What hosting companies does anyone else use?

Also, the hosting company I'm looking for should offer ASP and a database since I'll probably be the one doing the programming on his site and these are the tools I use. ;)

You can try "1and1 Hosting"

Yep, I use 1and1 also here in Wales, it's got loads of tools, website builder etc. Support can be a bit on the slow side in my experience, but then I've not needed to use the support much!!
Someone like yourself prolly wouldn't either!

I use www.bluehost.com for my sites.

Attached Link: http://www.webmasters.com/welcome.php3?p=morphography.uk.vu/

I can recommend Webmasters - good value if you need plenty of bandwidth and space, and good support (barring one incident which was eventually resolved to my satisfaction). ASP is included, and I believe MySQL is now standard (it wasn't when I signed up - but another thing I like about them is that they regularly upgrade their service without asking for more money).

The link will give me a kickback if you should sign up through it - just go to www.webmasters.com if you're opposed to affiliate links.

A void dot5hosting,  I have nothing but trouble with them and since I am stuck with them as my hosting for another year I am going to suck it up. The company I work for uses godaddy.

Hmm... 1and1hosting is looking good- they even give vouchers for sites like Google AdWords.

EnglishBob- thanks for the link. I'll make sure to say you recommended them so you get a kickback.

I went to a small business conference recently and heard some horror stories about 1 and 1 here in the UK.

The chief one being that even if you're 1 minute late with a renewal your domain will already have been sold on. The new owner will ask (quite legally) for several hundred pounds to sell it back to you!

One poor woman found it cheaper to have all her stationery reprinted!

I'm with one of the ICANN accredited registrars and I get days even weeks before a site is actually lost.

I'm with 1&1 in the UK and I have found them to be consistently excellent. The site's never been down, usually very fast to serve pages, good support. I can't comment on the selling on of domain names, but if you're doing this even semi-pro you'll surely set up renewals on direct debit. (I do it by credit card and the one time the card expired and I forgot to tell them they sent me an alert and gave plenty of time to sort it out.)

Have a shufti at x9internet.com... UK based company.

Really cheap... really reliable... good to deal with.

Prices from £0.00p to £4.09 per month for the X9 Maxi package... Unmetered Transfer ... Unlimited Space... Unlimited Email Accounts... Unlimited Domains... SSH Shell Access... FREE domain registration, PHP, mySQL, Perl with a dedicated CGI bin and ready-made scripts,  FTP, POP email, etc., etc. And... more control panel utilites than you can shake a stick at.

I am not affiliated with X9 Internet in any way... just a very happy and impressed customer and I highly recommend them.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'll 'fess up- the question wasn't for "a friend", but was actually for Vanishing Point. I didn't want to scare anyone by asking about a new hosting company... but then EasyCGI broke the site when they moved it to a new server, which forced us to move to a new hosting company.

Vanishing Point is now being hosted with GoDaddy, who seems to have a very good reputation at all the review sites that I found. Plus, since they're the domain-name registrar company, they probably won't be going out of business or anything funny like that.

Here's a more detailed thread about the issue, in the Poser Forum.