Web Hosting

Anyone have a good webhost suggestion? Mine (Virtualave) seems to be a little flaky at times. Currently, any externally linked file returns a 403 (Forbidden) error, although no such error was in evidence yesterday.

This may seem reasonable, if there were banner ads on my site that subsidized my bandwidth usage. There aren't. I pay for my hosting, there are no ads that I'm circumventing by posting a picture of a cake on my LJ, and I even pay for excess bandwidth usage (3 bucks last month, a bit more this month).

So, I'm considering moving to a different host, if the spurious 403 error becomes a corporate policy instead of a bug. Let me know what's a good, relatively cheap host. I'm paying about US$100/year now.

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Update: Virtualave, with no email yet in response to my (quite bitchy) query into the reason for this random failure, has now resumed functioning normally with regard to external links. Whatever.

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I suppose it's for the best, but she won't let me make this killer dessert until we have company over to help us consume it. Something about the caloric density of the dessert nearing critical mass...

How does this sound: graham-cracker crust (thinking maybe chocolate crumbs but we'll see), a caramel-cream first layer, then toasted pecans, then a rich chocolate mousse. Topped with some whipped cream, of course.

Probably no more than 5000 calories in one 9-inch pie. heh