I just came into a position where I inherited a site running on 1and1. Yesterday their DNS went down for a half an hour, that was a fun half hour.
I've never really had problems with HostGator or asmallorange. HostGator can be slow, but it's good value for the price, and pretty clean cpanel interface on the whole. ASO has good support and seems pretty snappy. (Of course I'm using an absurd amount of disk space on HostGator, mostly for backups.)
The biggest thing with 1and1 is what a huge mess their administrative interface is. Almost half of the space is ads trying to upsell you to their other services. You would think as a paying customer they could leave me alone.
I've never really had problems with HostGator or asmallorange. HostGator can be slow, but it's good value for the price, and pretty clean cpanel interface on the whole. ASO has good support and seems pretty snappy. (Of course I'm using an absurd amount of disk space on HostGator, mostly for backups.)
The biggest thing with 1and1 is what a huge mess their administrative interface is. Almost half of the space is ads trying to upsell you to their other services. You would think as a paying customer they could leave me alone.