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If you're looking for a lot of power and security and you want the very best support, I'd recommend
http://www.futurehosting.biz/I have a Managed VPS with them and I'm extremely pleased. I'm in the process of moving most of my sites off of 1and1 over to my VPS account because I've outgrown a shared hosting environment.
The package I have:
40GB Disk Space
550GB Bandwidth
768MB Guaranteed RAM / 2GB Burstable
3 Dedicated IPs
Plesk (cPanel available)
Guranteed SLA
Fanatical Support
$59.99/mo.
To give you an idea of the level of support... I've never had to wait more than 2 hours for non-emergency support. For emergencies, I've never waited more than 10 minutes. They are also really good about announcing when they will be performing services on their servers as well.
A VPS isn't for everyone, but if you want the best performance and the greatest level of security, it is an affordable option.
I'm going to be switching over to the cPanel package so I can run Apache with suexec. This allows for much tighter folder permissions. I would recommend this configuration for you as well.
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