[Nige]

I have experience of 2 other hosting companies.
I left my last one to come to eukhost not because of technical problems - I never had any - It was just that they upgraded their packages for new customers but continued to charge me a higher rate. Customer support was pretty mediocre.
With my first hosts, again no technical issues but support was terrible.

I suppose its swings and roundabouts - With eukhost, something breaks once a month, but support usually fix it quickly. Other hosting companies have less technical problems but poor support! Not exactly a glowing reference for the hosting industry, is it?

If that's the choice from commercial hosts, then I think my best bet would be to nab a little bit of free webspace somewhere and use some free gmail addresses. Just waiting to see how the latest glitch is resolved!