As mentioned in my post about switching from Blogger to Wordpress I took Adam up on his recommendation to use 5quidhost.co.uk for hosting. I had no problems setting everything up but following the one-click upgrade to move to Wordpress 2.5 I started getting the error 'HTTP 406 Not acceptable' when saving posts I was editing. A lot of other people have had a similar experience, apparently it's related to mod_security settings and some of the advice was to switch this off via the .htaccess file. Presumably it's on for a reason and I don't know enough to go messing so dropped an email to support at 5quidhost. The issue was resolved that day. That's pretty amazing service so if you're looking for cheap hosting with great customer support then they get my recommendation.

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Similarly good experience here. Our site disappeared on Wednesday night due to (as Mark was first to point out) a denial of service attack affecting some of 5quid’s servers. Not their fault, and they managed to get it back up and running pretty quickly. Before I knew of the DOS attack I mailed them to ask what was up.
Amazingly, they took the time to reply and added me to a temporary mailing list that they created to keep the owners of affected sites informed.
Comment by handolio — 6 June, 2008 @ 7:56 pm

and I thought you were bored with technology handolio… shouldn’t you be hangin’ at the library instead of mooching about in cyberspace? ;)
Comment by Joe — 12 June, 2008 @ 9:37 pm