i use bluehost at the moment, just starting year 2. the first year i never had one problem so i just renewed for another year.

the last few days i am getting the cpu overusage a couple times in a short period of time and i am the only one on the forum.

i killed almost all the add-ons but i got the error right after that.

i would love some recommendations for good hosting. i have a small forum, 30-40 users a day and about 50 guests,

I had some similar issues with a host earlier this year. I did quite a bit of research to find a new host. I decided to go with a VPS, and pared down my list of possible companies to liquidweb and knownhost.

liquidweb run "managed" vps setups, and knownhost run "semi-managed". I didn't have a lot of server experience so I almost went with liquidweb. But after PMing with one of the reps from knownhost on webhostingtalk, I decided to give them a try with one of my small sites.

The result is that they've been great. I've been with them for close to ten months now and their service is excellent. I've had no downtime that I'm aware of. Their response time to support tickets is so fast, it's amazing. And they've been patient with my newbie questions, walking me through things and at the same time offering to "do it" for me as well.

Recently, I moved my main site over to knownhost to the same VPS account as my smaller site and all is good.

If you're looking for a possible VPS host, they might be worth a look.

If you go with them, let me know how it works out for you. :)

-Chris

bluehost is the sorriest web host out..lol i was using phpbb and they shut me donw back in 2005. Now i'm with a new company from the uk and have a reseller package...need info let me know....and down town barely happens. look at my stats.

Uptime exec(uptime)

8:22AM up 586 days, 4:38, 0 users, load averages: 0.78, 0.93, 0.88