I've been seriously considering moving from Aletia for the past month or so. (Not that I've had problems with Aletia -- I just need more room to grow.)

I'm looking at Wizards Hosting. I've read through some threads here, and I see nice things. I've also tried to glean info from their message board and didn't really learn much.

This is what I need:

* Great Uptime; no significant routing issues.
* Pseudo streaming of Real Media files.
* Ability to run a small YaBB SE (mysql/php) Message Board, preferably not in safe mode.
* Good support, but then, I'd rather not need much support.

I'm looking at the 250 MB shared hosting package, but I'll likely need the 350 MB package by the end of the year. I'd like to start off paying around $15 bucks for 250 MB (8GB of bandwidth is OK, I'd prefer 10 to be safe, but I rarely use more than 3GB).

So does anyone know if Wizards has what I need -- specifically regarding Real Media? If they don't, who else would be a good choice -- meeting the criteria I described and with a solid reputation to boot. I was looking at TerraByte also, but I've seen some frustrated customers of late.

My site really isn't very demanding, but it does have a lot of multimedia.

http://www.williamgirdler.com

My suggestion is: if you are happy with your web host, stay there. Don't experiment around as you might get ugly surprises.

Don't they provide options to allow you to expand your account?

Peter :)

I have to agree with aplus. Nothing against Wizards, to the contraire, it’s a very nice company and Carlos seems to be a very responsible / hard working guy, but the issue here is why change if you are happy with your current host?

Yeah, they do -- sort of. It would actually be cheaper for me just to run over my space rather than upgrade -- provided they have the space on my current server and don't need to plop me somewhere else. I'm satisfied with Aletia, though I do have other motivations for moving that I don't feel like getting into. Small things, but small things that have begun to add up over the past ten months.

I'm not considering pulling *all* of the sites I run from Aletia. Just this one. And I'm in no rush to move -- I'd surely utilize my 30 day trial to make sure any new host was a step up, not down.