I'm considering Yahoo and GoDaddy.

Any horror stories or warnings about either of these? Others I should look at?

I resell through hostgator...and I love them. Their phone support in the US and live chat options have been very useful. And they helped transfer 30 websites for me...so I'm sure they'd help you. www.hostgator.com

I know I wouldn't recommend powweb anymore, and once I'm done touring this summer, I'm transferring my websites elsewhere. Possibly over to hostmonster.com where I have the Gothla US website - that seems to be pretty good.

I've been using yahoo without any issue for a little over a year now.
I don't want to give any of my business to godaddy because of their usage of disgusting misogynistic commercials, but that's just me. I've also heard some not so great things about their service.

I used to use Yahoo, but I wasn't impressed. The tools were hard to navigate and the services weren't the best. We recently switched to VodaHost, and so far have been very pleased. We did have an issue with a missing password, but I think that was a problem with one person, not the service as a whole.
Good luck!

I moved from Brinkster several years ago when their support went to hell. Picked GoDaddy and have stayed with them. GoDaddy itemizes everything, like the vet, but for me it is a good deal AND the support is great AND their servers stay up. However, our website and your website probably have entirely different requirements :)

I'm not sure about all your requirements, but I use gkg.net, afer switching from godaddy (they were so spammy & irritating). I like gkg but I"m not a big pc person, so caveat -

Thanks for all the great recommendations on this thread! I need to make my mind up very soon, because my current web hosting contract expires at the end of May.

Interesting that Yahoo has poor support. My www.bellydanceplus.com web site is on Yahoo, and has been quite happy there. I've never needed to phone Yahoo for support, so I haven't had experience with that facet of their service yet. After my abysmally bad support experience with Hostway, I want to avoid choosing someone else who will be just as bad.

Hmmm, lots of complaints about GoDaddy on this thread. That doesn't bode well!

Any other suggestions?

Which web hosting companies have really great, informative statistics that are easy to access and reliably gathered?

A big reason why I'm wanting to move my web site to a new provider is that my current company's phone support has gone from "pretty good" to "horrid". The reason is that the company merged with another, and the new company's call center is the one that will be used for providing the support. The call center in question is in Bulgaria. Now, the people I've dealt with are fine in their English-speaking skills, but they are severely poor with respect to their customer service mentality. Every time I've dealt with them since the switch-over, the call has degenerated into my literally shouting at them with demands that they take my problem seriously. And I've had a lot of technical problems since the switchover due to the merged company making some technical changes that have caused stuff on my site to quit working. It's bad enough when your ftp interface doesn't work, it's even worse when the customer service guy says, "Well, I tried it, and it works for me, so there's no problem and I don't see a need to open a ticket."

I'm also very concerned about the fact that the people in the call center are able to easily pull up a report showing them the passwords for all my email accounts and ftp account. I guess it has been this way ever since I started hosting my web site with this company, but I didn't find out about it until my most recent round of technical problems brought on by the reconfiguration they've been doing in their data center. Although I assume most people in their support organization wouldn't misuse the knowledge, it only takes one bad apple to use my password for dishonorable purposes.

WebHost4Life

i think i'm dropping godaddy for these folks:

www.ixwebhosting.com

really good (lots of stuff) and cheap it seems!

anyone had experience with 1and1.com? they seem pretty cheap -

I have had a very good experience with Network Solutions. Great phone support.
Yasmin

I don't know if they meet all of your requirements, but webskinz.com offers hosting. They have great service and are a small company based in FLA. I've had great luck with them.

I use Netfirms and have no complaints.

1. I've never needed their phone support, so I can't advise to that, but I've never had an outage or any other technical problems either (knocking wood)...
2. They have a nice personal/SOHO hosting plan, but for something more robust, they have an upgrade plan for $8.95 a month. I find the personal plan would probably work fine for me, but I chose the Advantage plan for future growth potential, and because I could have unlimited domains. It may be perfect for your site, but, if not, there's an even bigger plan after that.
3. They provide stats on usage.
4. You can set up 10, 500 or 1,000 email addresses, depending on what plan you go with. I believe you can set up forwarding, but I don't know about autoresponders.
5. I use POP and SMTP with my Outlook client using my home ISP (Verizon).

The plan also came with free decent web-editing software, NetObjects Fusion.

www.netfirms.com/web-hosting/ has details and a plan comparison.