hosts, suggestions?

I'm looking for good service, uptime, blah blah, plus: Please respond as to whether you have these features or not _ |_| access to '.htaccess' files in our directories.? |_| ability to put apache 'rewrite' instructions in our '.htacces' file? |_| -or- sys admin will put a mod rewrite instruction in our virtual host config? |_| PHP can execute executables, shell scripts? |_| do you have an shared encryption certificate for SSL? |_| do you have the ability to server flash |_| do you have the ability to server shockwave |_| do you python installed |_| do you have the ability to serve java servelets |_| do you have telephone service and what are the hours of ALL your support methods? |_| is your database MySQL ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm looking at: http://www.dreamhost.com/ http://www.linuxwebhost.com/ http://www.westhost.com/ http://www.yohost.com/ http://dzones.com/plans.htm/ http://www.mybizhosting.com/ http://www.cqhost.com/ http://www.nebis.com/ Anyone have comments about these or other hosts? I have been on http://www.successfulhosting.com/ for quite awhile. Excellent uptime, good PHONE tech service, almost no complaints. BUT, they don't completely match the feature set above, so I will have to move. They are, nicely, a little paranoid about security, so they don't allow the use of mod_rewrite, even though there are no known attacks successful using mod_rewrite. They tech staff probably has ONE guy who really knows what's happening and the rest are really junior. But they usually give good service in 5 mins for the easy stuff to 36 ours for the really technical stuff. Great, but not a site for an aspiring guru to play on. -- If You want to buy computer parts, see the reviews at: http://www.cnet.com/ **OR EVEN BETTER COMPILATIONS**!! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/userreviews/products/