I moved to www.dreamhost.com and haven't had any problems with them, but my demands of my webhost are vastly less involved than yours so I can't say as to how they would fit for you.

Second for dreamhost. I've gone through quite a few providers in the last ten years, and dreamhost are by far and away the best. I've been with them for two-three years now and I can't fault them.

I'm on dreamhost, too. Want to sublet some space?

(Been with them for 10+ years! Can't say they are without problems, but their pluses outweigh them.)

Actually, it's more practical for me to get a master account and sublet space to myself, as a rule. :)

I fifthe it or that fourth it ... i use Dreamhost and while i don't make any demands, they are pretty flawless and have quickly answered my questions when i have them. Give 'em a try!

Dreamhost = good. Kevin's brother works for their CS department and their newsletters are hilarious, if you're into that kind of thing. They're constantly improving their service and their tech support allows you to rate your own knowledge level so they don't talk down to you if you don't ask them to.

I'm on ixwebhosting - they're pretty decent and a lot more affordable than most.

I also like that I have a specific person assigned to my account for when I have questions.

Yet another happy Dreamhost customer here - 9 years and counting..

For web hosting I've heard good things about Dreamhost but have never used them. For a dedicated host I've been very happy using M5 Hosting in San Diego. My FreeBSD server there had 558 days of uptime until at last the time came to move it to a new rack with improved power and management, which they handled in 10 minutes of scheduled downtime with plenty of advance notice. (If you don't like Linux or FreeBSD or OpenBSD, ignore this blurb.)

Although I do my own blocking of spammer IPs using spamhaus, spamprobe, and Postfix's access file, so I don't know if they'd block spammers for me if I asked. M5's support has been responsive and good on the rare occasions I've contacted them, and they do detailed followups on any network or power outages explaining what went wrong and what they're doing to fix it. The last one of which was, well, 559 days ago.

For Fantasy and SF writers, try SFF.NET

My brother hosts my site (and designed/built it). :)

He hosts a number of professional business sites as well, but not too many. He's always online for customer support.

I just pinged him about your issue and here's his response: "If her problem is email spammers then the solution I would set her up with is Google's business account ... its free for 50 users and works swimmingly. And I can set it up so it still runs from her domain but powered by google. Its what I am doing now with all my clients who need email. http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/group/index.html As long as she can edit MX Records on her server she is golden."

Feel free to send me a PM if you have any questions or want to talk to my brother.

I use http://www.one.com and have used them since they were B-one.net (In other words, years...)

It's cheap, and they tend to unnannounced increase disk quotas without raising the price.
(I'm still paying the same monthly fee with 3GB space as I did when it was 512MB, or was it 256MB? Years ago, anyway)

In addition to unlimited traffic, as many email addys you want, straight PHP and MySL, they also offer photo gallery and blogging scripts.
The blogging scrips suck, and the photo gallery was the reason for the last quota increase from 1 to 4GB..

They have standard packages up to 25GB if you need it.

drak.net -- I've been with them for 10+ years. They are customizable, affordable, and have nearly perfect customer service.

Count me as another dreamhost customer. I sublet to people for free frequently, but understandable for you to want your own thing. I will say that their resources are copious for modest money (thus my throwing mine around, as I say, and still not making much of a dent in it since I stopped podcasting on my own.)

I've used these folks for 10 years: http://hostmatters.com
They have an anniversary special going on now, unlimited hosting for $11/month. http://www.hostmatters.com/unmetereddetails.html