[punchbowl]

I doubt you'd need the level of support that hostgator seem to provide (judging my your sig anyway)

I'm thinking of trying there as there's only so many tricks an old dog wants like me wants to learn.

Going to keep on with server4you for the forum i have there as they are good value, have reasonably fast support, backups, reboots and i've had few problems with them. That said I'm sure 3.7 is going to make that server look old - maybe use it for mysql or openads

as for esecuredata - if I knew enough about server configuration then I'd go with them.

anyway enough of my rambling! good luck