Some things I'm looking for:

- 15+ GB storage
- 150+ GB bandwidth
- cPanel + Fantastico/RVskin
- Good uptime
- Billing software
- Custom NS
- Good support, Live chat preferred
- LiteSpeed server
- End user support
- RAID protection

Anyone who offers all that? What kind of budget should I have? I was thinking around the $200/yr range, but please let me know if that is unrealistic!

Thanks

I had good expirience with resellerzoom.com until i need a complete dedicated server.

Surpasshosting will be one of the best choice for you. Their support is really fast and friendly. Their hosting plans provide a lot of resources with affordable prices. We have a lot of reseller accounts on their different servers and the uptime is good, too. We are glad from their services.

The only host that comes to mind with end user support is innohosting. Not sure if they use Litespeed on their servers though.

And I think you should increase your budget just a bit because end user support and a free billing software can add to the cost of the host and they have to be able to make some profit off a hosting account.

The rest of the requirements seem fine.

EZPZ may fit your requirements, they are 'lightspeed' I'm pretty sure.

If you don'y need 'Lightspeed', then Innohosting come well recommended.

Thanks for the input everyone! Innohosting would be my dream host if they offered litespeed powered hosting. Ezpz looks like they might be just what I'm looking for! Anyone have first hand experience?

Thanks for the input everyone! Innohosting would be my dream host if they offered litespeed powered hosting. Ezpz looks like they might be just what I'm looking for! Anyone have first hand experience?
May I ask why do you need the Litespeed so desperately? IMHO, A properly configured Apache with right MPM performs better than Litespeed. And even you should see Innohosting is not moving to Litespeed because they are also able to serve right speed with apache as well.

Desperate isn't the right word. I just made a list of things I wanted, and it turns out that EZPZ is able to offer all of them(except free dedicated IP's, but they are cheap anyway), at a price I can afford. With Litespeed, I don't have to worry about wether or not their Apache is configured just right. I know it will be fast. It won't make that much of a difference on my own website, but it will certainly increase performance for some of my clients. They are important to me, so I'm looking out for them.

I know it will be fast. It won't make that much of a difference on my own website, but it will certainly increase performance for some of my clients.

If it makes them fast, what could possibly decrease performance for some of your client with apache? Is it because some CMS run fast with Litespeed? I am just curious, hope you won't take it wrong!

I based my desire for Litespeed based largely on a Google search of "Litespeed vs Apache" and coming up with results that overwhelmingly lobbied for Litespeed. A hive-mind kind of decision, I suppose. I saw some tests that showed Litespeed blowing Apache out of the water and I saw some tests that showed them pretty much equal. I didn't come across anything that showed Apache outperforming Litespeed.

Litespeed works as same as Apache Event MPM. With right configuration of Apache MPM it is possible to outperform Litespeed. But yes, with default configuration, you won't get the same performance as you would get in Litespeed. IMO, this is one of the reason why biggest hosting providers haven't selected Litespeed as their webserver yet. There is a big thread about Litespeed which is very informative:
https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=893506

I would like to point the following specific post for you:
https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showpost.php?p=6430889&postcount=75

But anyway, I wish you good luck in your next hosting service :)

Thanks! :) Aside from the Apache/Litespeed thing, EZPZ and Innohost both had some great options. End-user support is important to me. I've got enough clients, that I don't really have time to be dealing with hosting support.

That one post shows pretty much what I found everywhere else though. Un-tuned, out-of-the-box Litespeed is really fast! Maybe I would have lucked out and chosen a host that uses Apache and really knows how to make it purr like a kitten. Maybe not.

I'm not interested in hosting adult websites, so their liscencing restriction doesn't really bother me.

The long-winded thread is an interesting read though! :beer: