My provider is realy good, he helped me with my start-up as he knew from the start we would be successful, the uptime is good, the price is low and i always get good pings from the server.
Also my provider has the personal touch hard to find elsewhere, and as i almost went with NationHosts (who recently went of of bussiness) i know i made the right decision with chosing my provider, who is my provider you may ask, its efeito.net, their site is in portuguese so you will need to go onto the english version but dont let that put you off, they offer realy good value all round.
Jonathan