They recently updated PHP on all their servers which makes wordPress do all the goodies that were added in 2.6.  So that’s great.  It also makes it easier for me to upload and test scripts and not have to go through the setacl stuff.  Plus, if someone’s account get’s hacked, I don’t have to worry [...]

Hmmm…
webFaction uses The Planet’s data center services. I think that their main site and panel are hosted at the one that caught fire yesterday.
I guess I’m lucky since my site isn’t down, I guess it’s at another one of The Planet’s datacenters.
Anyways, I can’t access the Panel or the main web site at the [...]

So far I have to say webFaction is winning my heart so far. Here’s the experience I’ve had with both so far.
Supprt. Both webFaction and mediaTemple have been good with support. With webFaction though I get a more direct and decent answer. mediaTemple’s support doesn’t seem like they read my question fully. [...]