When Good Web Hosting Goes Bad

I admit it, I've been a secret admirer of a certain hosting company for a long time. However, I feel less and less like there's any kind of reciprocation, and so I've been counting down the days until my loyalty flicks out of existence. (Or, hope of hopes until they embrace repentance, shed their MBA-ways and rediscover that ancient art of pleasing the customer. I've stopped holding my breath on this one--perhaps the democrats can do a better job...hahaha, go two-farty system!)

Anyways, perhaps the wait for my loyalty to crumble is over...? Over the Christmas holiday, I noticed that this particular hosting company started arbitrarily dropping some free analytics code into all pages. They've already been skull-packing the HTML of authors who use their free hosting offering for some time, worse and worse each time the advertising market tanks--but now they are also doing it to the folks who are paying. This is a really bad no-no for anyone who knows anything about webmastering--but perhaps that sheds the final light, there isn't anyone left there who does...?

It's really quite sad, but perhaps such is life. With each new door closed, others open. Anyone suggest a web hosting provider they have come to know and love? I've got a few bucks a month I'm willing to pay for a service that requires someone to answer an occasional monitoring page and push a button to restart the servers. For the rest of the 99% of the day I'm happy to have them relaxing with the latest MMORG.