koolbluez said:
Can anyone give me details on good webhosting providers?
I need uptime guarantee, no hassles, as cheap as possible, max space, bandwidth, 100% domain control...
Along with others, even I can offer hosting 
I have offerred free hosting to members of this board having more than 250 posts. You will qualify soon. 3 members of this board are already using free hosting. You can have a look at this thread. *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=30182. I have also been offerring paid hosting. So just in case you don't want free
you can take paid
There are some more threads running in the bazaar section of this forum offerring hosting. Check them out.
IMO, Manas hosting sucks! In hosting just follow one golden rule - if you see some offer that TOO GOOD, then probably its TOO BAD!! Have a look at this thread on Manas Hosting
*www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32198
Manas hosting is giving a domain name + dedicated IP + 2000 MB space! A domain name costs somewhere between 300 to 400. Lets take it as 300. Dedicated IPs cost about $2 per month. So its about 1100 per year. That comes to Rs. 1400. So you mean Manas hosting is giving 2000 MB for Rs. 100 a year? Can they survive like this?
Good dedicated servers cost about $300 per month for 100 GB space. Lets say they have taken an average server which costs them $200 per month. That comes to 110,000 per year. So their per MB cost is about Re. 1 per year!! So how can they offer you 2000 MB in Rs. 100??
There are only 3 possibilities here:
1. They are lying. There will be hidden costs.
2. Their servers are real bad which costed them a really low amount.
3. They are heavily overselling their space and so their servers are tightly stuffed.
In all cases, your site will suffer
On one of the occassions, I have tried some pre-sales questions with them and I can tell you they suck! They couldn't answer so many questions!!
Did you notice one thing?
Their reseller prices are more than their shared hosting prices 
That shows they are overselling in shared hosting. Read their terms and you will surely find some catch somewhere. I will try to do it as soon as I have some time.
In hosting, its very rare to find cheap AND good! But you are free to try as many hosting as you want as long as you control the domain name and have a backup of your site.
Whatever hosting you take, ask a lot of pre-sales questions and satisfy yourself. These are some of the questions that came to my mind just-now. More questions may arise depending on what answers you get.
- Ask for third party uptime stats
- Take a demo of contrl panel. (I have taken one of Manas hosting and it sucks and works only in IE)
- Ask for server config
- Ask about support
- Request for a free-trail period OR money-back guarantee
- Ask about back-up policy (frequency, RAID, etc.)
- Is there a cap on number of email addresses or MySQL DB? What are the charges if you want more?
- Do you get POP3 and IMAP access? What about web-based mail?
- How many FTP account can be configured?
- What happens in case you exceed allotted badnwidth
- How many emails can you send per hour? You may not need that many emails. But if this limit is too high, then there are high chanced that the server may get black-listed every now and then as spam server.
- Which version of cPanel, PHP, MySQL, Apache, Perl, etc. do they use?
- Ask for php_info(). WordPress, phpBB and so many other software run on php and MySQL.
- Where are the servers actually located?
- Request for some sites hosted on same server. Are they dynamic sites or static ones?
